Testing showed less positive. In addition, students are often wrongly positive

Testing showed less positive. In addition, students are often wrongly positive

According to the government, the goal of testing is to capture the onset of the more contagious coronavirus variant omicron in time and to keep full-time teaching in schools. However, according to some directors, the new rules are bringing confusion to testing again.

The second largest primary school in Pilsen in Západní Street, with more than a thousand pupils, had eight pupils on Thursday with a positive covid antigen test. There were two such students on Monday, but the subsequent PCR test did not confirm their positivity.

According to principal Radek Dolenský, there is currently no quarantined class at the school. "In the classes where the children tested positive today, we will wait for the PCR test," said the principal.

There were also several positive test results in the Brno primary schools Sirotkova and Horní, specifically they had three, resp. two children from different classes. Their classmates will have to test every weekday until the result of the control PCR test.

"Organizationally, we can do it, the children now have to wear veils, they are separated from the other classes, they have a separate toilet and special tables in the dining room," said the director of the Horní Martinžela primary school.

Daily gains infected according to the degree of vaccination

Tests at the Pohůrecká primary school in České Budějovice, where 850 children attend and which is one of the largest in the South Bohemian region, revealed one positive case. According to director Dana Walterová, the seventh grade student had a positive antigen test, who should go to a ski course on Monday. "If a positive result were confirmed by a PCR test, we would have to cancel the skis for everyone," said Walter.

There were also a minimum of cases at Cheb primary schools, only one of them had a positive test for one pupil and one teacher.

Four thousand out of 1.1 million. So many tests have shown infected students

According to Deputy Mayor Zdeněk Zahradníček (Choice for Benešov), no major coronavirus outbreak also appeared in Benešov schools. "Testing is still standard, there were some positive cases, but I do not have accurate information," Zahradníček said in the morning.

Testing at the Pěší primary school, the Liberec primary school on 5 May, the Prodloužená primary school in Pardubice, the Czech Youth Faculty primary school in Ústí nad Labem or the Na Karlov primary school in Benešov was not detected by any co-infected pupil or employee. "The whole school is negative," said Svatopluk Česák, the director of the Benešov school.

Numbers of newly hospitalized by degree of vaccination

According to the director Kamil Tabášek, the Ostrava school now has a lower morbidity. He thinks that a new way of testing and quarantining children could help to detect those infected more quickly, on the other hand, the new rules will bring confusion to testing again. In many cases, according to the principal, this will also be a waste of tests, because if a positive case is detected and the whole class is tested for a few days and the PCR test subsequently confirms the positivity, the class will still be quarantined.

The procedure on Monday and Thursday differs

The procedure for a positive antigen test at school differs on Mondays and Thursdays. While on Monday nothing will change for the rest of the class, on Thursday classmates who test positive will enter the veil or respirator mode in class and testing every day. If the positive antigen test is ruled out by the PCR method, the class returns to normal operation, otherwise the children are quarantined.

Seven - day incidence of unvaccinated and vaccinated

"We were very relieved, because the measures during the positive test on Thursday are very difficult to implement," said Iveta Rejnartová, director of the Liberec primary school on May 5, which is one of the largest in Liberec. According to her, the problem is not the subsequent testing of classmates who tested positive, but that they have to set aside toilets and ensure class homogeneity, which is especially difficult in the second grade.

Pardubice School Extended once a week does PCR tests. "We have no positive record," said director Jana Smetanová. The school has been testing this way since November. PCR tests of children are paid by health insurance companies, parents can also choose antigenic ones.

In previous months, the tests found a maximum of 13 infected children in one day out of 750. “Classes then had to be quarantined, and I did not see the class I was teaching for two months. It is a problem to still switch between regular and hybrid teaching, "Smetanová added.

The infection is often refuted by PCR

For example, according to the school principal Libor Šrámek, 517 pupils and teachers were tested at the Drtinov Primary School in Prague 5, and none of them were positive. Two children had a positive antigen test on Monday, but a subsequent PCR test in them refuted the infection, he said. It turned out the same way at the Vodičkova Primary School in Prague 1, said the director Dagmar Zelená.

At the Antonín Čermák Elementary School in Prague 6, one student passed a positive antigen test, said director Petr Karvánek. There were two positive tests on Monday, but the more accurate PCR method was not confirmed by covid-19, he said. According to him, the class of the student with a positive antigen test entered a special test-to-stay regime with veils in the classroom. Until the PCR test is clear, children will be retested with antigen tests every other day.

The director hopes it will last until Friday at the latest. He considers it advantageous that the parents can now take the child out of school directly for a PCR test and do not have to contact the pediatrician first or wait for further instructions from the hygienists. According to him, the system could be accelerated.

Three pupils with a positive antigen test were sent to the Nad Štolou Grammar School in Prague 7 for a verification PCR test. The reason why the special scheme applies to eight classes because of the three pupils is that students from different classes met in the seminars in the previous days. According to Schejbalová, this anti-epidemic regime is therefore disadvantageous for grammar schools.

On Monday, according to the school principal, there was one student at the school with a positive antigen test, similarly to other schools addressed, but the subsequent PCR turned out to be negative. Therefore, due to the unreliability of the tests used, the grammar school prefers to test positive pupils once more before sending them home.

"Today, for example, we had eight positive students at first, but the second antigen only confirmed it in three," Schejbalová said. The school management thus wants to prevent unnecessarily many pupils from leaving the school, from whom the infection will not be proven. "A lot of tests are also wrong, nothing will appear there (as a result), so it has to be repeated," she added.

According to the principals, the schools used Sejoy antigen tests from a Chinese manufacturer, which the state had supplied to them in the past, for testing. Even then, it happened that some positive cases were not confirmed by PCR tests.

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