The new test provider announced this in a broadcast. The Ministry of Education therefore wants to “fully assert all claims relating to penalty payments, damages, etc.,” it said to the APA. Two tests per week were contractually agreed. In the meantime, however, at least the evaluation of the one weekly test is working.
Already last week there were problems on a large scale with the school PCR tests. The ARGE for molecular diagnostics, which took over the processing of the tests in eight federal states (except Vienna) after a new tender after the Christmas holidays, had to struggle with technical problems when evaluating the results – especially when assigning and evaluating them in the database. The result: According to the Ministry of Education, “an incomprehensibly low number of positive cases” was reported, and the schools had received data “too late, incorrect and incomplete”.
There were still problems earlier this week. Only when fewer tests had to be carried out per day due to a reorganization of the test days were all the results sent to the schools in good time. “The originally difficult situation has eased significantly, the error rate has been significantly reduced,” emphasized the ARGE. We continue to work on “optimizing data management”.
In the coming week, PCR tests will be carried out on Monday in Styria and Salzburg, on Tuesday in Lower Austria, on Wednesday in Upper Austria and Burgenland and on Thursday in Carinthia, Tyrol and Vorarlberg. Antigen tests should be carried out on the remaining days as before. Parents and students are also asked to take a test at the weekend if possible.
In Vienna, PCR tests continue to be carried out at least twice a week. The evaluation also works there – however, due to many late reports and different numbers, unlike usual, no collected data on the infections found in the past week could be presented on Friday. These should come on Monday.
Source: Nachrichten
