Schools – Dresden – Piwarz: experiences with self-tests in schools positive – education

Dresden (dpa / sn) – Saxony’s minister of culture, Christian Piwarz, described the first experiences with self-tests in schools as “cautiously positive”. Of around 64,500 students, 53,500 had taken a test since Wednesday, said the CDU politician in Dresden on Thursday. Among them were 74 positive cases. These are “no increased numbers” compared to the tests that were made in January and February in the final classes.

There were around 1,400 test refusers. The rest either had not been to schools (5300) or submitted an external test (4500). As a result, 13 of the teachers refused to take a test. Around 10,700 teachers took part in the self-tests; 15 positive corona traps were discovered. The numbers are a first intermediate result, emphasized Piwarz.

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