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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - The announced steps towards compulsory testing for schoolchildren in heavily virus-contaminated regions are largely welcomed by the unions.

A Verdi spokesman said on Thursday that there are still questions that the latest handout from the Ministry of Culture does not answer.

"Basically, this is going in the right direction," he added.

The Education and Science Union (GEW) called on school administrators and teachers to use the week after the Easter break to make the necessary preparations for the new test strategy.

In contrast, the school principals' association expressed strong doubts about the concept.

"There is a lack of templates, the documentation effort will be immense and it will hardly be possible to organize the whole thing during the holidays," warned its chairman Werner Weber, rector of a school in Heidenheim.

"This is knitted with a very hot needle and cannot be implemented during the holidays," he told the dpa.

In addition, pupils and teachers would have to be tested daily and not just twice a week if the protection concept is to be taken seriously.

The Ministry of Culture wrote in a letter to the schools on Wednesday that students and teachers in the southwest in regions with high numbers of infections must be tested in order to take part in face-to-face classes.

Anyone who returns to schools in the week from April 12th can still be tested voluntarily, as the Ministry of Culture writes in the handout.

From April 19, all pupils in regions with a seven-day incidence of over 100 will have to test compulsory. The ministry speaks of an “indirect test obligation”.

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