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Magdeburg (dpa / sa) - Thousands of employees at Saxony-Anhalt's schools and daycare centers voluntarily tested themselves for the corona virus, but almost no infections were detected.
Almost all daycare providers reported that many of their teachers took part and all of them had tested negative, said Health Minister Petra Grimm-Benne (SPD) on Tuesday.
According to Education Minister Marco Tullner (CDU), around 70 percent of all employees used the test facility in schools.
According to his ministry, only reports of twelve positive rapid tests were received by Tuesday afternoon, of which only one could so far be confirmed by a supplementary laboratory test.
Further laboratory results are still pending, it said.
The country had distributed around 40,000 tests in each of the schools and daycare centers so that shortly before the end of the Christmas holidays, all staff from the pedagogues to the caretakers to the secretaries could voluntarily test themselves for the corona virus.
The tests were scheduled for the previous Thursday and Friday.
The feedback dragged on over the weekend.
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Critics had complained that it was too unsafe for employees to take the swab for the rapid test themselves.
There is a risk that tests will be negative, even though those affected are infected, it said.
Usually this is done by appropriately trained medical staff.
Does the low hit rate with thousands of corona rapid tests carried out and the comparatively high number of cases across the country show that the critics were right?
The responsible ministers rejected this.
Education Minister Tullner said that it was expressly permitted to have the rapid tests carried out by those concerned themselves.
The country is satisfied with the action and is considering purchasing more rapid tests in order to use them again widely, for example before returning to alternating classes, said Grimm-Benne.