SPD parliamentary group leader Matthias Hey has criticized the attitude of the Thuringian Ministry of Education to the question of the right test strategy in schools.
There seems to be the conviction in certain working groups in the Ministry of Education that a test offer is better than a mandatory test, said Hey at the state press conference on Wednesday in Erfurt.
Erfurt - "We do not share this opinion." According to a spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group, the MPs want to convene the Red-Red-Green coalition committee on this issue.
Hey warned that the children, even if they were infected unnoticed or did not become seriously ill, could pass the virus on to their families and acquaintances.
"So it affects the whole of society." In addition, no one can currently answer the question of what an infection will do with children in 20 or 30 years.
"Once the children have been infected with Covid - and there is Long Covid - they have to live with it for 60 or 70 years."
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The day before, the number of infections had been added per 100.
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The corona infection in Lower Saxony continues to weaken.
The seven-day incidence on Saturday was the national average at 59.1 - that is how many people per 100,000 inhabitants were newly infected with the virus within a week.
On Friday the value was 61.8.
This is based on data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
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Corona incidences are falling in Lower Saxony and Bremen
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Tests must be offered from warning level one, in the highest warning level three they are mandatory.
Most recently, the seven-day incidence among younger people in the Free State rose sharply.
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