Enlarge image
PCR tests in the laboratory (symbolic photo)
Photo: ALEX HALADA / AFP
After a positive rapid corona test, citizens are still entitled to a post-PCR test.
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) spoke in Berlin of a “change in position”.
According to him, the existing capacity for PCR tests would also be sufficient if a daily number of up to 450,000 new corona infections were reached.
"And I don't think we'll achieve that."
You will continue to be able to offer everyone a PCR test as confirmation.
With the incidences that you now have and are still expecting, you can hold out, said Lauterbach.
In a draft for an amendment to the test regulation, which became known a few days ago, it was still planned to initially suspend the entitlement to follow-up testing after a positive self-test or quick test at a test station.
The reason for the change was reports about the shortage of PCR test capacities.
According to Lauterbach, however, it remains the case that in the future laboratories should primarily examine samples from risk groups, employees in clinics, practices, in nursing and in facilities and services that provide integration assistance for people with disabilities.
Other samples are lagging behind, so the results could possibly take longer.
The Minister of Health is planning to change the test regulation this week.
kfr/dpa
