Bavaria wants to use air filters in classrooms against Corona

Better safe than sorry. Therefore, in some municipalities in Bavaria, the educational institutions are being equipped with air filter devices in order to be prepared for another wave of infection. This is also the case in the town of Töging am Inn, where UlmAir ventilation devices were installed in the rainbow elementary school on Thursday. Tobias Windhorst, Mayor of Töging am Inn: TOBIAS WINDHORST, MAYOR TÖGING AM INN “That was of course a wish of the school on the one hand, but on the other hand, of course, also our great wish of the city that in autumn, when it is to be expected, that the viruses are flying better again than they are at the moment, that we can then definitely keep the schools and kindergartens open. And that was also repeatedly demanded and propagated by the big politicians. And it’s nice if that is what you demand. But it is important that you do something about it. And that’s why we decided to equip our schools with these ventilation devices. ” The city in Upper Bavaria is true to the motto “better too early than too late”, because air purifiers could become in short supply in autumn. This is also confirmed by Daniel Ehrhardt, managing director of UlmAir, which manufactures such filter systems. DANIEL EHRHARDT, MANAGING DIRECTOR ULMAIR “If you ask me what is the main reason for failure, those are electronic components. Well, I just have a circuit board controller as an example that we are installing. And this controller has certain components so that a There is a CO2 sensor on it, a filter monitoring system, and it has to work. It has been tested for many years. We know exactly what it does, what can it do? And if only a resistor is missing here or a display is currently having procurement bottlenecks, then we get it You, of course, have the problem of not being able to build the device in the form that they actually planned. ” As a means of reducing the risk of infection in schools, in addition to the mask requirement, the distance rules and ventilation, the purchase of air filter devices is seen. With a new funding scheme, Bavaria wants to equip as many of the more than 100,000 classrooms as possible with a filter device. But this is handled very differently from state to state. In Baden-Württemberg, Thuringia, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt, for example, they refer to critical assessments by the Federal Environment Agency.