Corona outbreak in Schlüchtern – Apparently contagion on the bus trip

“The Office for Health and Security began the investigation on Saturday, about which we can so far not say much more than that there have been coronavirus infections in several schools and also in one or more care facilities. However, due to this one essential commonality in at least 28 newly infected people, we can assume that they were infected on a bus trip last week. A large number of the children attend the Bergwinkel elementary school, ”explained First District Member and Head of the Health Department, Susanne Simmler.

On Sunday, the administrative staff discussed the situation in an extraordinary meeting and also involved the operator of the bus line in further research into the outbreak. The Main-Kinzig-Kreis and the school management have also informed the teachers, student representatives and parents about the schools and daycare centers that are located along the bus routes. Parents continue to have “the clear recommendation to have children with cold symptoms tested as quickly as possible and, as always in this pandemic, not to send symptomatic children to school,” says a letter sent to school communities on Sunday has been.

Furthermore, the Main-Kinzig-Kreis decreed on Monday that all nine schools served by the bus routes in question will continue the mask requirement in the same way as in the first two weeks of school attendance until further notice. The obligation to daily rapid tests also applies there until further notice. This applies to the city school, the Bergwinkel elementary school, the elementary school in Vollmerz, the Ulrich-von-Hutten-Gymnasium, the Kinzig-Schule and the Heinrich-Hehrmann-Schule in Schlüchtern, the Henry-Harnischfeger-Schule in Bad Soden-Salmünster, the Brothers Grimm School in Steinau and the Wallroth-Hintersteinau Group School in Hintersteinau.

The first schools were also asked at the weekend to test the pupils in the classes at an early stage, if necessary earlier, as soon as possible at the start of school on Monday. By Monday noon, the Main-Kinzig district had already received 30 positive rapid tests. The children will now be examined more closely using PCR tests.

The investigations by the Office for Health and Hazard Defense continue unabated, with the Main-Kinzig district assuming that additional positive laboratory results will be received on Tuesday and Wednesday relating to this outbreak. In its meeting on Monday morning, the administrative staff therefore decided to extend the precautionary tests and protective measures to a larger radius.

“We cannot rule out that there were other ways of transmission, further spread inside or outside the facilities or even infected people in other schools or daycare centers that have not yet been connected with this outbreak. That will only be clarified in the course of the week. We will inform every affected facility immediately and recommend the appropriate precautionary measures for the entire school community, ”says Susanne Simmler.

The Main-Kinzig-Kreis also asks all commuters who were on the MKK 90, MKK 91, MKK 95 or MKK 98 buses last week and who are now showing symptoms of a cold, to check out one of the test points in the district as soon as possible To have the coronavirus tested and, as a precaution, to reduce contacts with fellow human beings to a minimum until negative evidence is available.

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