A total of 97.5 million Covid antigen tests were delivered to around 6,000 schools in 2021. However, according to RH, the specific whereabouts of only 62.3 million can be traced. The rest cannot be assigned – it can therefore still be stored in the schools or have been used up. “The Ministry could not ensure a functioning monitoring of the consumption of antigen tests or the existing stocks,” concludes the RH – even though inventories were repeatedly carried out. Among other things, this led to the ministry ordering a Covid test in 2021 as part of emergency procurement, although stocks were still available from Bundesbefertigungs GmbH.
In the Ministry you can understand the RH criticism. This “rightly points to problems that arose during the inventory of schools in 2021”. However, the tests did not simply disappear. However, the teachers were ill or did not have time to take a comprehensive inventory in addition to all the other burdens. Many tests were therefore not recorded. This is a “highly unsatisfactory state of affairs”, but one would not have wanted to ask the schools to carry out a complete work-up during this time.
The RH also criticized the frequent changes to the corona rules in schools. This led to confusion.
