After that, the 3G rule will also apply to schools, as Minister of Education Heinz Faßmann (VP) announced yesterday. In other words, anyone who has not been vaccinated or has recovered for less than six months has to present a test certificate at school – as long as “the infection process makes it necessary,” says Faßmann. Today he presents details on the process in the individual school levels, as well as his plans for the number of infections from which further measures, such as a mask requirement in the classroom, should come.
Faßmann initially did not want to commit to the period of validity of the tests for schoolchildren: Vienna’s mayor Michael Ludwig (SP) yesterday called for this to be shortened in line with the new regulation in Vienna, namely for PCR tests to 48 instead of 72 hours and for antigen tests to 24 instead of 48. There should also be answers to this today.
The Ministry of Education will get an overview of the announced air filter systems for schools this week. They should be installed in all classrooms that cannot be well ventilated. In Lower Austria, the only federal state that has so far published figures, such filter systems have only been ordered for 50 rooms in federal schools and 28 rooms in compulsory schools. For Upper Austria, Education Councilor Christine Haberlander (VP) wants to present the numbers on Friday. (yeah)
