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Child protection associations criticize the federal government’s proposed restriction on contacts between children and young people. “Social interaction is very important, especially for young people, it is the central moment of development,” said Holger Hofmann, federal manager of the German Children’s Fund (DKHW), the newspapers of the Funke media group. It is completely disproportionate and hostile to children to limit this to one contact. With the closure of sports clubs, cultural institutions and leisure centers, much is expected of children and young people at this time, continues Hofmann.
The German Child Protection Association (DKSB) also views the progress with concern. “It is terrible for the child who has to decide among his friends and it is terrible for the child who might have to be rejected in the course of such a decision,” President Heinz Hilgers told newspapers.
The federal and state governments appealed to the population on Monday after an interim review from the November closure to further restrict social contacts. Children and teens are also encouraged to only meet a stable friend in their spare time.
The federal Minister for Family, Franziska Giffey (SPD), defends the rule proposed by the Federal Chancellery. “If so, then it would just be free time and the kids would still have connections at daycare and school – these are usually the most important friends,” Giffey said. Daily mirror according to. Furthermore, many elementary school children and youth met through digital opportunities, for example to do homework or play together.
RKI registers more than 17,000 new infections
In Germany, health authorities reported 17,561 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in 24 hours. The total number of infections detected amounted to 833,307.
According to the data, 305 more people died from or with the virus. The number of deaths thus rises to 13,119.
The number of new infections is higher than the previous day: on Tuesday it was 14,419, however, less than a week ago: the previous Wednesday, the RKI had registered 18,487 new infections. The peak was reached last Friday with 23,542 reported cases.
Demonstrations in front of the Reichstag will probably be banned.
Several rallies in front of the Reichstag planned by opponents of the Crown measures for this Wednesday will not be able to take place there. This stems from a letter from the Bundestag security officer to parliamentarians, which was sent to parliamentary groups on Tuesday.
It states that the recorded meetings raised concerns, based on a risk assessment carried out by the Berlin State Criminal Police Office, “that parliamentary operations will be impaired because attacks on German Bundestag buildings and on individuals are to be expected. “. In addition, there are risks to the health of members of parliament and others who have access to the Bundestag, as violations of the meeting participants against the rules of the crown are expected. Therefore, the Federal Ministry of the Interior, responsible for the so-called pacified district in front of the Reichstag, “will presumably modestly reject requests to hold meetings there.” The plaintiffs have legal recourse against this decision.
On Wednesday, the Bundestag and the Bundesrat want to adopt changes to the Infection Protection Act. This involves distance requirements, contact restrictions, mask requirements, store closures, and event bans. Several demonstrations have been recorded near the Reichstag building, by opponents of the crown’s restrictions, such as the so-called lateral thinkers and counter-protesters.
Dobrindt received 37,000 spam emails
Ahead of the Bundestag’s vote on the Infection Protection Act on Wednesday, numerous MPs received a flood of critical spam emails. CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt said on Tuesday ahead of a meeting of the Union faction in the Bundestag that his office alone had received around 37,000 such emails in the morning. The vast majority are identical to identical passages in the text. It cannot be clarified who is behind it.
There are also calls to parliamentary offices, for example from the constituency, where people have received false information, Dobrindt said. Currently there is “a brutal abuse of political debate in the networks with the use of conscious disinformation to achieve polarization in society.”
Lauterbach: missed opportunity
After the federal-state consultations, there is growing criticism that important decisions have been postponed. In particular, the lack of a strategy for schools generates criticism. “It was a missed opportunity,” criticized SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach on Deutschlandfunk. You’re wasting valuable time with delay. The draft resolution was promising, but unfortunately most of it was not approved. The results fell short of expectations.
Virologist Isabella Eckerle from the University of Geneva considers it risky to postpone new measures to contain the coronavirus. “A hesitant approach or waiting in a pandemic is generally not a good idea,” Eckerle said at the ARD. As long as development continues to go in the wrong direction, it is clear that restrictions should at least be maintained, but probably tightened. He noted that the positive effects of the restrictions can only be seen with a time delay, that time is “wasted.”
The virologist criticized the fact that there is still little data on the infection process in schools. So far, they haven’t looked enough into the pandemic. “For a long time, data from the first half of the year has been relied upon, when it became clear that children did not play such an important role. But that has now changed.” It is clear that many infected children show a less pronounced clinical picture or no symptoms. But it is also clear: “If the number of infections is high, as is the case at the moment, there are also numbers of infections in schools. That simply reflects what is happening in the population as a whole.”
Education unions also criticize the postponement of new anti-crown measures in schools. “Now is not the time to erase sensible and specific proposals from the table,” said the president of the Union for Education and Science (GEW), Marlis Tepe, of the publishing network Germany (RND / Tuesday). The president of the Association for Education and Parenting (VBE), Udo Beckmann, told RND that these are “decisions that are urgently awaited by teachers, parents and students.” He also criticized the communication: “It is simply not acceptable for school administrators and teachers to learn from the newspaper or Monday at 7:00 am how they have to teach this week.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel had discussed further Corona measures with the prime minister on Monday. In the original version of a federal motion for a resolution, there was still talk of expanding the requirement for masks in schools and cutting group sizes in half. In the end, Merkel and the country’s leaders postponed this decision, as well as resolutions on new measures, until next week. After the videoconference, which lasted several hours, Merkel said that most federal states had spoken out against further legal changes at this time. There will be more deliberations on November 25.
Merkel announces understanding of restrictions at SZ economic summit
At the SZ economic summit, Chancellor Merkel called for understanding for the severe restrictions on public life in the crown pandemic. The measures are a “democratic imposition,” he said in his speech Tuesday morning. The decisions to be made were among the most difficult of his tenure. But one thing is clear: “If we waited until the intensive care beds were fully occupied, it would be too late.”
Merkel emphasized that there are risk groups in Germany not only in homes for the elderly and elderly. There are many citizens with previous illnesses and those over 60 years old. These would have to be protected. Science and society have already learned a lot in recent months. “We are learning within and with the pandemic,” Merkel said. The most important thing remains the follow-up of contacts to break the chains of infection.
In the winter months, the federal government will do everything in its power to help businesses “that are actually healthy” but were hit by the pandemic through no fault of their own. She expects the German economy to see a “strong growth surge” in the next year.
The chancellor also expressed dissatisfaction with the results of Monday’s deliberations. I could have imagined more at the meeting with the prime ministers of the federal states. Every day counts, hesitation costs more and more money when in doubt. “That is why I am sometimes impatient,” Merkel said. However, it is also difficult to estimate how the infection process will develop in the next few days.
