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The latest statements by Hamburg's First Mayor Peter Tschentscher were unmistakable.

If the countries in the corona pandemic “organize something, then it is a bit different and sometimes heterogeneous,” said the Social Democrat a few days ago - and added no less clearly: “And if the federal government takes over something, it goes wrong. “That was shown by the vaccine supply.

And because the federal states are currently responsible for providing rapid tests, for example, Hamburg, a metropolis of 1.8 million people, has reacted and procured more than 4.7 million such tests for its own use.

These were "partly already delivered," said the spokesman for the social welfare authority, Martin Helfrich, on Friday.

The background to the campaign is that from Monday, proof of a negative coronavirus test result is a prerequisite for visiting certain facilities and using services.

According to the social authority, the result can be presented in paper form or digitally.

Self-tests were not enough.

Only rapid tests that are no longer than twelve hours old and must be carried out by trained staff or PCR tests that are no longer than 48 hours old would be accepted.

Only then can the mask be put down

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Specifically, this means that facial treatments at the hairdresser's or beautician are possible - but only with a negative test result.

Only then should the mask be taken off, it was said from the social authority.

Should further opening steps come into question, in the future, among other things, in restaurants, accommodation establishments and shops, access could be made possible after submission of a negative test certificate.

Following the resolution of the Prime Ministers, Hamburg has now included the corresponding rule in the Hamburg Containment Ordinance.

Accordingly, a negative result of a PCR test or an approved rapid test within the meaning of Section 10d of the Containment Ordinance is deemed to be evidence.

According to the social authorities, the test sites set up in the Hanseatic city meet this criterion.

A free test can be taken there once a week.

A list with the locations is available on the website www.hamburg.de/corona-schnelltest.

As the social authority further informed, the test in the case of a PCR test may have been performed a maximum of 48 hours and in the case of a rapid test a maximum of twelve hours.

Visitors to care facilities, for example, have to prove that they are not infected with SARS-CoV-2.

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Meanwhile, Hamburg's school senator Ties Rabe (SPD) is convinced that with a well-functioning self-rapid test concept, a further opening of the schools in Hamburg after Easter is possible.

"If that goes well, and I am very confident, then we will have dramatically increased security in schools and then we can gradually get the other classes on board after Easter," said Rabe on Friday to the radio station NDR 90.3.

While millions of students in all other federal states are already meeting in the classrooms these days, Hamburg's children and young people will not take this step until the next week.

After the spring break on Monday, the primary and final classes of the secondary schools should initially return to the school buildings with alternating lessons.

This corresponds to around 60 percent of all Hamburg students.

At the same time, the teachers should test themselves twice a week.

Rapid tests are also planned for schoolchildren; they should be included step by step in the self-test concept.

The school authorities have been provided with more than a million such tests.

“There are probably enough there.

So it won't fail because of the amount of tests, ”said Rabe.

"Then the Hamburgers can do that too"

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These are not the tests with the very long rods.

“They are chopsticks with which you pick your nose right at the front.

How did a doctor say?

Anyone who has ever bored their noses - some hamburgers are supposed to do that - they can do it themselves.

And that makes me very confident that it will work well in school. "

In addition, Rabe considers the model in Austria, where schoolchildren can also take a quick test once a week, as "very convincing".

There, pupils from the first grade could use the test sticks.

Rabe: "And I think the Hamburgers can do that too."