In Saxony-Anhalt, in the future, as a rule, only students who tested positive for Corona should be sent into quarantine and no more contact persons.
The health authorities and the Ministry of Health have agreed on this, confirmed a ministry spokeswoman on Friday.
In addition to the infected, the siblings who attended the same facility should be isolated if necessary.
Magdeburg - At the same time, the school should provide more tests than the usual two tests per week as well as a temporary mask requirement in class in order to limit the further spread of the virus.
Magdeburg's medical officer Eike Hennig had previously reported on the new regulation at a press conference. Follow-up could still be undertaken in individual cases. “That means we really want to leave the pupils in school with power now.” Children who have symptoms should be tested very quickly as part of the rapid tests or, even better, be given a PCR test. "We want to try, although we no longer follow up any contact persons and no longer want to send any contact persons into quarantine, that we can still keep track of things here."
It is known that children are not very seriously ill with Covid-19.
But they would have suffered a lot from the pandemic and the lockdown situation.
It is not yet clear what long-term consequences the diseases would have on the children, which then has to be faced.
Among adolescents and school children, the seven-day incidence is 300 and more.
The total incidence on Friday in the state capital was 118.3.
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The figures are currently "the price for the absolutely necessary openings," said Hennig.
The health department no longer manages the full follow-up.
The priority in the follow-up is for the city with the older infected.
dpa