Parents who accompany their offspring in pediatric and adolescent practices do not need a Corona test certificate. The North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Health (MAGS) made this clear on Thursday after considerable unrest among paediatricians. Accompanying persons of patients do not have to be tested for the coronavirus before entering a practice or when visiting a doctor, said a spokeswoman for the MAGS of the German press agency.
Düsseldorf - According to the Federal Infection Protection Act passed last week, “employers, employees and visitors” are only allowed to enter medical practices if they have been tested and can prove it.
"In isolated cases, a general test obligation for people accompanying patients, for example in pediatric practices, has already been derived from this," said MAGS in Düsseldorf.
But: Accompanying persons such as parents, legal guardians or caregivers are treated people - i.e. patients - to be equated, explained the spokeswoman.
And patients do not have to be tested in order to gain access to the practices - this was previously generally accepted as undisputed.
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The MAGS reacted by clarifying the outrage and confusion among the paediatricians, who had assumed that accompanying parents had to test and criticized this as completely impractical.
The "Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung" had previously reported on the explanations from the MAGS.
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