Corona pandemic: 3G and 2Gplus test centers caught off guard

Corona tests are in demand like never before in the pandemic.

Unvaccinated people need them for work, buses and trains, vaccinated people for the cinema or sports facilities.

Long queues form in front of the test centers.

Fürstenfeldbruck

- self-tests are hardly available in shops or on the Internet.

A new test center should help to defuse the situation.

Already in the morning there is a lot of activity at the Corona test center of the district in Germering.

Again and again a line forms in front of the containers.

Mothers with children, craftsmen in work gear, men in suits - they all want to be tested.

Lioba Suchwirth came with her daughter, who has to be tested out of quarantine.

“There were several cases in the class,” says Suchewirth.

It's not the first time that she has had to test with her daughter.

"I went into the pandemic with over 100 hours of overtime, now I have 20 minus hours." The majority was spent on tests.

Queuing for 2Gplus before the training

Alexandra Müller got in line because she wants to go to handball training in the evening. For this she needs a test despite the vaccination. Müller is a passionate athlete. “It's worth it to me,” she says. Florian Koller also wants to do sports. Like his teammates, he is vaccinated. He accepts the necessary test for his passion for football. In view of the current corona numbers, the new regulation is okay.

Dietmar Grübel, head of the Fitmax fitness studio in the GEP shopping center in Germeringen, agrees.

However, the rule that vaccinated people also have to test themselves before going to the studio came as a surprise.

He informed his employees on the night of Wednesday when the new requirements became known.

“And I published it on social networks.” Nevertheless, many customers were completely surprised on Wednesday.

But many would not have wanted to do without their sport.

Some would have queued at the test center on the ground floor, others did a self-test under supervision.

“The people are very patient,” says Grübel.

The majority would be happy to have the freedom to train at all.

Cinema operator: "We pay extra."

However, the urge to move seems to be greater than the desire to see the latest films.

Markus Schmölz, managing director of the Scala cinema in Fürstenfeldbruck, speaks of an economic catastrophe.

As for all other cinemas in Bavaria, Scala 2Gplus applies.

If you want to get in, you have to be vaccinated or recovered and additionally tested.

"We'll pay more from now on," says Schmölz.

A total of only 35 visitors came on Wednesday.

But he doesn't want to close his cinema.

“We have to stay open to show that we still exist.” Nevertheless, he now has to send employees on short-time work again.

"It all starts all over again," says the cinema boss desperately.

The problem is exacerbated because you often have to queue in front of test centers and not everyone reacts calmly.

New stations should bring some relief.

On Monday, November 29th, the largest facility of its kind in the district will open on the Olchinger Volksfestplatz.

100 tests per hour in the new drive-in

As at the monastery in Fürstenfeldbruck, those willing to test can stay in their cars there.

The wagons are guided in two lanes through a large tent, explains a spokesman for the operating company Med4 Deutschland GmbH.

Up to 100 tests per hour should then be possible there.

The drive-in test center is open daily from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Rapid tests are carried out continuously, PCR tests from Monday to Friday (cost: 69 euros).

Another new test station opens in the former rose pharmacy in Fürstenfeldbruck.

"People just try everything for a vaccination appointment"

As a fire brigade commander, Maximilian Grain is used to great psychological stress.

But what he is currently experiencing is "abnormal", as he says.

"More stressful than any mission." Since it became known that there was a vaccination campaign in the Eichenau fire station in the fight against the corona pandemic on this Sunday (12 p.m. to 4 p.m.), the phone has not stood still.

Hundreds of people from all over Bavaria call because they think they can somehow get an appointment. Pure telephone terror for the volunteers. Grain has now turned off his personal cell phone. "I can not anymore. I don't feel like it anymore, ”as he says.

But there is still the work cell phone, this number is also on the Internet, so anyone can find it. In order to take a quick breath, he has already redirected the phone to that of his deputy. In the fire station, the device also rang all day. The fire brigade has now posted on Facebook that they only provide the location and have no influence on appointments and vaccines. People would only like to turn to the Bruck vaccination center, please. In Eichenau - unlike in Olching or Germering - you have to make an appointment in advance on the Internet (www.impfzentren.bayern).

Even if it is going to be a test of nerves for him, Commander Maximilian Grain still understands.

"Apparently it is difficult for people to get an appointment and they just try everything for it." And he interprets it as a positive sign that the interest in vaccination in the pandemic is so great.

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