Housing managers in crown dilemma (employees don’t test retirement homes) for fear of staff shortages



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In nursing homes everywhere, where the virus is particularly rampant, no systematic testing is done. House managers are in an almost unimaginable dilemma.

Retirement homes deliberately not allowing their employees to be tested because they fear a staff shortage if many employees have to stay home due to a positive test?  At least in individual cases, the suspicion is confirmed.

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Photo: Laurent Gillieron (Keystone)

Now a new campaign will be launched: with the call “Get your symptoms tested immediately”, the Federal Office of Public Health (BAG) wants to encourage the Swiss to take more tests for the corona virus again.

In fact, not only has the number of new infections decreased in recent days, but also the number of tests performed, although currently capacities are high and new rapid tests would also be available. Even so, the number of tests carried out is 38219 early November 25786 fell this Friday. Even more worrying is that authorities are in the dark: “We don’t know why the number of tests is currently dropping,” said Virginie Masserey, head of the infection control section at FOPH., this week.

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