Numerous high school graduates from the Weilheim-Schongau district are currently in quarantine.
One has so far tested positive for Corona.
District - Almost 40 high school graduates from the Weilheim-Schongau district who had taken part in a privately booked trip to Croatia were quarantined by the health department on Friday (we reported).
Everyone had to do a PCR test.
It is now clear: at least one was positive.
According to the Weilheim-Schongau health department, not all results are yet available.
Where exactly the high school graduate was infected, whether in Croatia or back home, cannot be determined with certainty.
The health department will contact the person who tested positive.
That is why the returnees from Croatia were sent to quarantine
Why the high school graduates were even sent to quarantine on Friday - over a week after their return from Croatia - caused a lack of understanding among the students and parents concerned.
When asked by the local newspaper, the health department explains the context of their decision: The graduates from Weilheim and Schongau "were at a major event with several indexes, a reconstruction of the chain of infection is no longer possible."
The term “major event” hides a so-called “X-Bash trip” to the Croatian peninsula of Istria, explains Erika Breu from the District Office.
As reported, the district students drove to Croatia with an organizer who also organized the trips of numerous other high school graduates from Bavaria, including those from Geretsried.
Everyone met in Istria.
In the Bad-Tölz district, numerous returnees have already tested positive for the corona virus.
The competent district administration authority could classify the X-Bash participants as close contact persons due to an authorization of the so-called "general decree isolation".
The Weilheim-Schongau health department did that.
However, the contact person list was only sent to the office on Thursday evening, which is why the quarantine order was only issued on Friday.
High school graduates to go to Croatia in quarantine until July 22nd
The affected Weilheim and Schongau high school graduates are now in quarantine up to and including July 22nd.
The health department recommends “reducing contact and adhering to the AHA rule” to all people who had contact with the students after their return.
Bernhard O'Connor, headmaster of the Welfen-Gymnasium Schongau, was waiting on Monday morning for a response from the health department as to whether there were any further effects.
Most students and parents reacted positively to the fact that the graduation ceremony was postponed and not canceled entirely, says O'Connor.
Now it is necessary to wait and see how many people are still in quarantine on the planned replacement date (July 26).
Only a few high school graduates from Weilheim, "under ten", according to the deputy headmistress Adelheid Meyer, were in Croatia.
The school also only found out about the quarantine on Friday, but in good time so that these people no longer had to enter the school.
They were very happy when they heard about the effects in Schongau the next day.
Meyer now hopes "that nothing will follow either."
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