The Ministry of National Education on Thursday warned colleges and high schools of an error in the instructions for certain Covid-19 self-tests.
The documents indicate that a negative result means the subject has coronavirus,
RTL
reports
.
43% of self-tests ordered for schools would be accompanied by this erroneous instruction.
"The Panbio tests intended for secondary school teachers" are also concerned, said the ministry to the
World
.
The incorrect indication has also been corrected and the online version of the document has been amended.
The email sent to principals and teachers provides a link to this update.
Institutions reluctant to take self-tests
Even before this blunder, school officials were reluctant to deal with the device.
"This will be complicated or even infeasible because we do not have sufficient voluntary staff, no feedback on the mediators mentioned by the minister and not enough premises", estimated the national secretary of the SNPDEN union Christel Boury, quoted by HuffPost .
The antigen test used in the high school and college screening program involves a shallower nasal swab than the PCR test.
The swab is in fact only 3 or 4 cm long.
The result is available at the latest 20 minutes after the sample.
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