The right to a PCR test should remain in place
PCR tests to detect a corona infection should be used in the future primarily for people in the healthcare sector be available. At the same time, the right to these high-quality, accurate tests should remain for everyone. Saxony-Anhalt’s Health Minister Petra Grimm-Benne (SPD) informed about this on Monday after a video call with her state colleagues and Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD).
“The test regulation is a matter for the federal government. The Federal Ministry of Health is obliged to publish these as soon as possible,” said Grimm-Benne in the evening. you hope this later this week success, according to the SPD politician, who is currently chairwoman of the conference of health ministers.
The background to the prioritization is that the Laboratories are reaching their limits due to the strong omicron wave with the high number of infected people in the PCR tests. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) therefore announced last week that there should be a new order.
If necessary, because of the prioritization, people would have to expect that it it takes a little longer for them to get their PCR test results, according to Grimm-Benne. The prioritization is the task of the laboratories.
The health ministers were unable to agree on Monday about a return to recovery status in six months. The department heads rejected a request from Bavaria to extend the convalescent status from the current three to six months. According to Grimm-Benne, Lauterbach had confirmed in the switch that the Shortening of the recovered status based on scientific results happened.
The health ministers did not advise on easing the corona measures on Monday, said Grimm-Benne. Opening prospects are firm intentions, but these can only be opened up after the peak of the Omicron wave in mid-February. (dpa)
