They are part of the corona pandemic like the fear of the next wave: the rapid tests. But how good are they at spotting the omicron variant?
Hamburg/Munich – Almost everyone will know it: the cotton swab in the nose, which is used as part of a rapid corona test to determine whether the person tested has been infected with the corona virus or not.
The Omikron variant is also tested in this way. But do the rapid corona tests detect the infection correctly? 24hamburg* reveals the clear result of a study by researchers from Munich.
Speaking of Hamburg: In the city in northern Germany, Vienna recently became a role model – due to a very special method for PCR tests*. Incidentally, in the Hanseatic city, which in the meantime even had the highest incidence values nationwide, only a few corona rules have been relaxed so far: Among other things, the tracking of contact details has been omitted, and the 2G rule in retailing no longer applies in Hamburg. Hamburg's health senator Melanie Leonhard (SPD) assumes a "very free summer" in Hamburg despite the corona pandemic *. * 24hamburg.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
