Corona tests in schools
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Systematic series of tests by citizen test operators at schools are actually not planned in Germany.
(Photo: Michael Weber/Imago Images, collage: SZ)
Commercial citizen tests in schools are convenient for the private school authorities, lucrative for the test operator, but unnecessarily expensive for the taxpayer. About a case that shows how business is done in the pandemic – and controls fail.
By Markus Grill and
Jana Stegemann, Dusseldorf
When the managing director and co-partner of the test site operator Sanicum Diagnostics signed the contract with the Archdiocese of Cologne in April 2021, North Rhine-Westphalia was just opening the schools again. The month-long lockdown is over. It is now mandatory that teachers and students have to test themselves for the corona virus twice a week during school hours.
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