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Ahe daily market on Berlin’s Herrmannplatz has a growing number of stalls that have changed their range of sales for masks and disinfectants. Most distributors have long been satisfied with walk-in customers, and the increased revenue has been out of the question. “People don’t take the rules seriously and some still doubt that Corona really exists,” says a salesperson, shaking his head.
Heike schmoll
Political correspondent in Berlin, responsible for “Bildungswelten”.
While many are still out and about without a mask, health senator Dilek Kalayci (SPD), Neukölln Falko Liecke City Council for Youth and Health (CDU) and Neukölln doctor Nicolai Savaskan advise on the aggravated situation. On Saturday alone, 120 new infections were reported in the district, new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days now exceed 173, more than triple the critical mark of 50. The incidence for all of Berlin was 85.2 during the Weekend. per 100,000 inhabitants.
Adults carry infections in daycare centers and schools
Liecke believes that containment as in summer is impossible for his district of 330,000 inhabitants. The infection has infiltrated the general population. “The image is now so fuzzy that we can no longer identify the exact source of the infection,” he says. Infected people can be found everywhere, whether in the gym, in private, or at work. “We are in absolute crisis mode.” The court’s ruling to lift the Berlin curfew has shaken him. “I am afraid that the Senate will react with significantly more severe restrictions in the gastronomic and public areas.”
Liecke is convinced: “We cannot leave it as it is now. Community facilities must remain open as long as possible, we cannot afford a second closure ”. The main concern now is to protect at-risk groups by restricting opportunities to visit nursing homes and nursing homes and regularly test staff there. . “The basic problem is that the infections are transmitted to kindergartens and schools.”
But what follows from the growing number of infections in the population, even more people infected in schools? “That is to be feared,” says Liecke. All prevention programs in the youth and health field are currently being neglected, and “there will certainly also be long-term damage that we cannot yet foresee, and I think it is really dramatic.”
On Tuesday, the Senate will change the Infection Protection Ordinance again. Drastic tightening of contact restrictions is expected. Only a maximum of five people should be allowed to stay together in the public space. A mask requirement must be applied in streets and squares without any distance. The Senator for Health and Culture is discussing new restrictions on cultural events.
Street scene at the Rathaus Neukölln subway station late last week
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Image: dpa
There is still fall break in Berlin, but infections had tripled in the last week of school before fall break. In the Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium and in the middle and upper grades of the Rütli campus, lessons were taken from home. Due to the numerous cases of quarantine among teachers, there was such a great shortage of teachers in the Abbe-Gymnasium that classes could no longer continue.
