Drilling your nose highly desirable: In the coming days, all schools should receive corona self-tests.
However, there are distribution problems.
Because most of the students still persist in distance lessons.
Munich
- 15 minutes for safety: The high school graduates from the Chiemgau-Gymnasium Traunstein are among the first to have experience with the corona self-tests in Bavaria.
A stick is inserted into the nasal vestibule, explains headmaster Markus Gnad.
Turn five or six times, then dip into a mini test tube, close it, bead drops onto a test strip and wait for the result - done.
What the high school graduates from Traunstein tried out in the gym last week, every pupil aged 15 and over in Bavaria should soon be able to master in no time at all: the Corona self-test.
Traunstein had an advantage because the district had equipped all schools there with quick tests two weeks ago.
But now the Free State has taken the matter to itself.
"In the next few weeks" all schools are to be equipped with tests for staff and students aged 15 and over.
The age limit is not further explained by the Ministry of Health and Culture in a joint letter.
A request to the Ministry of Health was not answered yesterday.
Corona tests in schools: The information situation is confusing
The headmasters are prepared.
At the Quirin regulator elementary school in Holzkirchen (Miesbach district), all employees should receive the so-called self-tests for non-professional use, says headmistress Sabine Bösl.
In addition to the teachers, this includes, for example, the caretaker and “of course also the lunch care staff”.
Twice a week, on Mondays and Wednesdays or Thursdays, the staff should carry out the tests at home before school starts.
Walter Baier from the Bruckmühl grammar school (Rosenheim district) has similar plans.
Test packages are also due to arrive there this week, there is talk of a whole range.
Baier will pass the tests on to his teachers as well as to all students from the 10th grade who are supposed to test themselves once a week - provided that they return to face-to-face classes from next Monday if the incidence is below 100.
Currently this is only the case for the Q12 high school graduate class.
In total, the tests are required for almost 300 people.
"Not everyone wants to take part, but most of them," says Baier.
Baier does not know when the tests will arrive.
The information situation is confusing.
"Every school in every district in Bavaria will receive self-tests in the next few weeks," reassured the ministries in the letter to the school principal.
"If you are not there in the first week - because tests are not immediately available to everyone - do not worry." In the Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen and Dachau districts, for example, test deliveries are not expected until this or the next week .
Allegedly, districts with higher incidence values are supposed to be supplied first, Albert Sikora, director of the Dachau education authority, has learned.
Rapid tests for schools: counties with high incidence come first
One of these schools is the Schiller-Gymnasium in Hof, where the incidence yesterday was 327.
“We are completely into distance teaching,” reports headmistress Anke Emminger.
The self-tests from Siemens have been available at school since Thursday afternoon.
As soon as a student enters the school, he is given a pack of ten tests, says headmistress Emminger.
Problem: Students are only allowed to enter the school if they are taking an exam.
Therefore, the tests can only be distributed gradually.
But there are also schools that have developed their own test strategies.
The Zugspitz Realschule Garmisch-Partenkirchen has short-circuited with the Bavarian Red Cross.
"We test ourselves," says headmaster Markus Lieb.
Several teachers have been trained by the BRK, three will test the 75 students for the first time tomorrow - with a quick test, which, according to Lieb, is valid for 24 hours.
That is longer than the self-test distributed in other schools.
The Erlangen secondary school on the Europakanal wants to play it safe: Teachers and students are trained there, who then act as multipliers and pass on how to handle the self-tests in small courses to others.
