According to our Minister of Health, Jens Spahn, corona quick tests shall be freely available in Germany at the beginning of March. They will be performed by family doctors and qualified people, e.g., in pharmacies. Another of Spahn’s announcements concerns self-test kits for laypeople that will be simultaneously available in supermarkets, drugstores, and pharmacies.
In Freiburg, many entrepreneurs did not want to wait another two weeks and started a program.Dear doers,
Last Sunday evening, some entrepreneurs from Freiburg and the VBU (Baden
Business Association) decided to jointly launch the initiative.
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| Tests for Freiburg |
With this initiative, we want to shake up the ponderous government and administration to - finally - actively take up the vital testing topic. The more testing is done, the more infection chains can be broken.
The voluntary initiative is funded by donations and sponsors.
The president of the Freiburg-Madison-Gesellschaft, Toni Schlegel, is one of the doers. He offered the test premises at his Hotel Rappen on Münsterplatz.
Corona quick tests are touted as an effective tool to fight the virus. Infected people are detected and will go into quarantine. The positive result is reported to the local Gesundheitsamt (health authorities), which will subsequently start the tracing, thus breaking the chain of infection.
I have my doubts regarding the self-tests bought and performed by laypeople. How many false-negative results will there be, and how safe does the tested person feel after a negative test?
A negative test is nothing else than a snapshot of the present personal COVID situation. It should never lull the person into a sense of security, leading to disregarding the AHAL rules.
If a positive self-test results, will the person inform the health authorities and voluntarily undergo a ten-day quarantine? I doubt it.
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