Health – Hanover – schools and daycare centers again without compulsory corona tests – health
Hanover (dpa / lni) – Since Monday, there has been no repeated negative corona test for school or daycare visits in Lower Saxony. According to the Ministry of Culture, anyone who wants to test themselves voluntarily will receive three test kits per week in May. This applies to all schoolchildren and daycare children from the age of three. The ministry had already announced these changes. The mask requirement is already over.
As additional protection after the Easter holidays, Lower Saxony had imposed a daily test requirement for all schoolchildren, and since mid-February tests for children over the age of three have been required three times a week for daycare visits.
Minister of Education Grant Hendrik Tonne (SPD) recently emphasized that the withdrawal of most of the Corona requirements will bring a feeling of normality again. Children and young people in particular have “contributed more than others to slowing down the pandemic and protecting others with significant restrictions such as school closures, alternating lessons, wearing a mask and compulsory testing.”
This step comes too early for the Greens. In view of the currently increasing incidences, she thinks it is premature to completely stop testing in daycare centers and schools, said the Greens parliamentary group leader Julia Willie Hamburg. “At least in facilities with a high incidence of infection, testing should continue.”
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