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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - North Rhine-Westphalia is investing 13.8 million euros so that enough staff is available in old people's homes for corona rapid tests over the Christmas period.
This is the prerequisite for ensuring the safety of residents, said NRW Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) on Wednesday in Düsseldorf.
The state government has signed a corresponding framework agreement with aid organizations such as the Red Cross, which provide paramedics for rapid tests in old people's homes until the first days of January.
However, he could not guarantee whether this could be guaranteed in all 2,300 old people's homes.
By and large, however, the offer is available.
Visiting relatives over the holidays are very important, emphasized the CDU politician.
"If you go to your grandma with a negative rapid test, the likelihood that you will transmit the virus is not very high."
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Last week, Laumann had urgently warned the managers of nursing and old people's homes not to lock out visitors for reasons of infection protection.
"There is no home manager in North Rhine-Westphalia who can close his home."
He had announced that he would "enforce the possibility of visiting the homes".
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