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The Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Manuela Schwesig (SPD), accuses the Federal Government of Corona self-tests not arriving where they are particularly needed.
"I have no understanding why the federal government has not made sure that we get the deliveries of self-tests for daycare centers and schools before Aldi is supplied," says Schwesig in the magazine "Spiegel".
Aldi wants to sell self-tests from Saturday.
Other supermarkets, discounters and drugstores want to follow suit soon.
The SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach shares the concern that educational institutions could go away empty-handed: "It is to be feared that schools and companies will hardly be able to get self-tests if they are simply sold on the market beforehand," the epidemiologist told the magazine.
"The federal government should buy up all available self-tests as soon as possible."
"Self-tests are key"
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The Greens also sharply criticize the federal government's strategy.
“The key is the self-tests.
So that it really works, teachers, students and their parents would have to be tested, and that only makes sense with self-tests, ”says Janosch Dahmen, doctor and health politician of the Greens in the Bundestag.
Dahmen, together with the Greens boss Robert Habeck, presented a paper that largely relies on self-tests as a prerequisite for openings.
Experts are already warning of online fraud with the new self-tests that will be available from Aldi on Saturday and from Rossmann and dm and in some supermarkets from next week.
They suspect that fraudsters can take advantage of the high demand for the rare commodity and set up fake shops on the Internet.
Consumers should be suspicious of cheap offers in unknown shops.
Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) also accused the federal government of "serious failures" because of the late ordering of corona self-tests.
He does not understand why the federal government has not acted faster and more extensively here.
“Unfortunately, nothing has happened yet.” Only recently has the federal and state governments established a joint platform for ordering rapid tests on a large scale.
"Unfortunately we are losing valuable time again," complained Kretschmann.