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Berlin (dpa / bb) - The CDU parliamentary group has accused the Senate of failing to organize the corona tests in Berlin.
"You have to say today that your test strategy has crashed," said health policy spokesman Tim-Christopher Zeelen on Thursday in the plenary session of the House of Representatives.
Far too few tests are available for clinics and nursing homes, even though the Senate announced a Berlin test strategy in May.
Zeelen pointed out that nursing homes accounted for 60 percent of deaths related to the corona pandemic.
The rapid tests did not arrive there for weeks, he criticized.
Virus outbreaks in nursing homes were not prevented in this way.
The left-wing parliamentary group's health expert, Wolfgang Albers, also called for a significant expansion of the rapid tests - this applies to nursing homes as well as hospitals.
He suggested that the staff should be tested before the start of each shift.
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