Contact tracing and reporting of corona cases in schools still works analogously in many places
"Schools in the Main-Kinzig district need to be digitised more quickly in order to better meet the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic with all its variants and their side effects," says Matthias Zach, spokesperson for education policy for the Green parliamentary group in the district of Main-Kinzig. The background to the Greens' request are the forms still to be filled in by hand for contact tracing and reporting coronavirus cases.
“Comprehensive tracking and the reporting system are and will remain important”, Zach clarifies. It is no longer up-to-date if such reports cannot be made available digitally to the health authority in the Main-Kinzig district: "In the current infection situation, such hurdles must be removed as quickly as possible, also in order to be able to maintain the operation of the district administration in other areas." This is also crucial for future tasks.
Here Zach does not see the schools, but the school owner in the responsibility: "Unfortunately, the digitisation offensive that has been launched has still not reached a comprehensive level in many classrooms in the circle. In addition to whiteboards and iPad classes, this also includes digitising the tracking and reporting of coronavirus cases in the class network.” This is already failing at the health office, which cannot process such digital information: ‘The health authority and the schools, in particular the school secretariats, must be provided with the conditions to digitally record and use the reports received every day.’
This would also relieve school leaders and teachers who have a high effort with the still analog contact tracing. Zach therefore calls on the circle to "create this further digital solution as soon as possible." What is digitally possible in the field of screening children's teeth in schools and daycare centres, urgently needs to be extended to the reports of those infected with coronavirus. “The pandemic has clearly demonstrated the material and qualitative weaknesses of the digital infrastructure in the Main-Kinzig district. These include working in the health authorities, the possibilities of working from home and teaching at home", said the spokesperson for education policy.
"Efforts to make the Main-Kinzig district comprehensively digital in all areas and not only to enable fast internet for all, but also to use it sensibly and labor-savingly, must preserve the drive they had in the times of the coalition of the Greens together with the SPD and Free Voters and under Landrat Erich Pipa. Unfortunately, the full potential is approached too slowly by the current decision-makers and thus not fully exploited", concludes Zach.
Enquiries to:
Jakob Mähler
Group Managing Director
Alliance 90 / The Greens Main-Kinzig
06181/61596
0176/46763336
fraktion@gruene-mkk.de
English (UK)
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