Eleven residents die after a corona outbreak in a senior citizens' home in Brandenburg.
More than 40 other residents and many employees are infected with the corona virus.
The state government relies on daily testing of the staff.
Potsdam - After a corona outbreak in a senior citizens' home in Schorfheide on Werbellinsee (Barnim) with eleven deaths, the Brandenburg state government has decided to make an extended test obligation for unvaccinated employees in nursing homes. When the Corona Handling Ordinance was updated, the cabinet stipulated that in regions with a seven-day incidence, over 100 unvaccinated or unrecovered employees had to be tested every day, the State Chancellery announced on Tuesday. This also applies to acute corona outbreaks, regardless of the incidence.
"Now we have to protect particularly vulnerable groups of people such as residents in nursing homes and the very old," said Health Minister Ursula Nonnemacher (Greens).
“You have a particularly high risk of serious and fatal disease processes.” That is why the obligation to test in the care sector is being expanded.
The Barnim district has meanwhile corrected the number of deaths after the Corona outbreak on Tuesday.
There were still eleven dead, said spokesman Robert Bachmann.
Nonnemacher had spoken of 14 dead on Monday evening in the rbb show "Brandenburg Aktuell".
How the misunderstanding came about remained open at first.
44 residents and 15 employees of the facility in the Altenhof district are currently suffering from Covid-19. Most of those who died were over 80 years old, and all of them had previous illnesses, reported Bachmann. According to him, according to medical officer Heike Zander, the vaccination rate for employees in the facility is only around 50 percent. At the facility, nurses have been tested for the virus on a daily basis since the outbreak became known, Bachmann said.
The opposition left faction in the state parliament also spoke out on Tuesday in favor of daily tests of workers in nursing homes.
In addition, the other people suffering from Covid-19 in the home would have to be better cared for, said parliamentary group leader Sebastian Walter.
"The home supervisor must work together with the health authorities to ensure that the sick come to hospitals," he demanded.
When asked by the dpa, Bachmann replied that every resident was free to come to the hospital.
The decision would be made by the residents' general practitioners.
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