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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - The delayed vaccination campaign by the federal and state governments is also affecting the state's test strategy in old people's and nursing homes.
"From now on, the staff will be tested daily," said Health Minister Manne Lucha (Greens) the "Badischer Tagblatt" (Friday).
"The top priority must be to protect the vulnerable groups as best as possible."
So far, the employees in the homes have been tested twice a week.
In November the cabinet decided to order five million rapid corona tests as an emergency reserve.
Even then it was expressly stated that primarily staff and residents as well as patients in nursing and medical facilities as well as facilities for the disabled are tested.
The reason for Lucha's decision is also the number of vaccine doses available for Baden-Württemberg.
As long as there is not enough of it, "we must be all the more careful to prevent further entries of the virus into homes," said the minister.
On Thursday, the start of the district vaccination centers was postponed by one week to January 22nd due to the insufficient number of vaccination doses.
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According to the State Health Office (LGA), every fourth person (24 percent) with a registered infection in Baden-Württemberg is older than 60 years.
Since the second week of December, a total of 126 outbreaks in nursing homes with 2,130 Covid-19 infections have been reported to the LGA.
169 men and women of these died with or from the virus.