the Corona-pandemic under control, it is a track search in the case of infections with more Tests. Should in the future be a still larger circle to cash costs.

Berlin (dpa) - In the fight against the Coronavirus Tests in the absence of acute signs of disease on a broad Front are now possible, especially in sensitive areas such as hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and daycare centers.

A on Tuesday announced the regulation of the Federal Minister of health, Jens Spahn (CDU) specifies a number of additional test facilities on a cash cost. This also aims at the planned voluntary Corona-Warning App for Smartphones, the users should inform close contacts to be Infected. Additional laboratory capacity for a significant expansion of the Tests are not yet available.

"We are the Virus want to nip this in the Bud," said Spahn. "The homes is only possible with preventive series of tests in hospitals and nursing and if we all contact persons from Infected test." On money this not to fail. "It is much more expensive to test enough to test too much," said Spahn. An Overview of the new regulations, with retroactive effect from 14. May

TEST-CONDITIONS: so Far, there are Tests on the cash costs of the rule only in the case of suspected Infection - so if you show symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat, or a smell - and taste disorders. In the future, in principle, all patients should be tested to be included in hospitals. Health authorities and Physicians can also, in certain cases, Tests without symptoms Vera.

TESTS OF contact persons: For Containment of the Virus, it is important to quickly find people and investigate the Infected are near. Such a "contact person" is, for example, who in a conversation for at least 15 minutes of uninterrupted contact, or with an Infected in the same household lives. Possible Tests without symptoms but also, if a user of the public Warning and App get reported such contact. The application, which is a measure of the proximity between the two Smartphones, should start next week.

number of tests: there Are in nursing homes, schools or day-care centres in a Corona case, may order the health Department in the future, the number of tests - and all the people in the facilities examined. Also in rehabilitation facilities, dialysis centres, Asylum centres or prisons is possible. In the case of care homes and care services with vulnerable, older, chronically ill people will also be able to be independently of one case tested.

TEST-REPETITIONS: How often is tested, the doctor decides, explained the Ministry. For contact persons, the regulation provides for a possible further Test that could be the end of the incubation time. Staff in hospitals, in care and in institutions for the disabled may be tested once at the beginning and then every two weeks again. The clinics were even made for weekly Tests strong.

THE COST: The cost of a flat rate of 50,50 Euro per Test, pays the statutory health insurance (GKV) - also for private patients and people without health insurance. What this means, financially, hanging from the Infection and the number of the officially arranged Tests, explained the Ministry. It is a insurance, but third-party performance, for the Federal government, a subsidy from tax money. The Shi head Association, welcomed the Test-expansion, penetrates but a full counter-financing. The specific Funding requirement for private and Non-Insured only "a General financing commitment by the Federal government against the insured," said Shi Board member Stefanie fabric Ahnis the "Handelsblatt".

CAPACITY: scope for more Tests there. The capacity of the ground and up to 888.000 Tests per week on a reliably high level, informed by the professional Association of Accredited laboratories in medicine. In the last week of the Pentecost holidays, therefore, 280,000 of the Tests were made after it were the middle of may, already more than 360,000. A positive 0.9 percent of the Tests were last.

regulation in the German Federal Gazette