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Germany will likely have to live with the partial lockdown for a longer period of time: before the federal and state governments consult on how to proceed, experts are calling for a tightening, which will mainly affect schools. Lessons must not be canceled.
Before the exchange conference between prime ministers and Chancellor Angela Merkel, the focus will be on how to treat schools in light of the record number of infections. SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach spoke in favor of keeping schools open in any event, but cautioned against continuing school operations.
“We are entering a situation where school operations become a high risk for children, teachers, parents and grandparents,” he told the Funke media group newspapers. He advised dividing the school classes and teaching them “in winter all the time with a mask.” Children between the ages of 10 and 19 are just as contagious as adults. In any case, it assumes that the “breakwater closure” will have to be prolonged. “Other than schools, a probable cause is very few restrictions on private contacts.”
Demand for alternate lessons
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) wants to take stock of the provisional results with the prime ministers of the federal states two weeks after the start of the last contact restrictions at the national level scheduled for November. The federal government has already made clear that in light of the rising numbers, it currently sees no reason to relax. Leisure facilities are currently closed, hotels cannot accommodate tourists.
Marlis Tepe, president of the Education and Science Union, asked politicians to decide to change the lessons of a seven-day incidence value of 50 during the crown consultations. “I hope there is a decision to change the lesson,” he told the “Passauer Neue Presse”. “We have to protect the health of teachers, students and their parents.” Face-to-face teaching is very important, but not at any price.
“Nude makeup inventory”
The Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer (SPD), strictly rejects the idea of school closings as in the spring. “In a great effort, we closed many areas of public life so that kindergartens and schools can remain open, because we have painfully experienced how many children and their families suffered during the time the school was closed,” he told the Rheinische Post. .
Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) promised an “unadorned inventory of the pandemic situation in Germany” and a possible tightening of protective measures for the conference. “We must critically examine whether the measures we have taken so far are sufficient to control the infection process,” he told the publishing network in Germany.
22,461 new crown boxes
Health authorities reported 22,461 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in one day. That’s 1,081 fewer cases than on Friday, according to RKI information.
The value is also a bit lower compared to Saturday last week. At that time, the number of new infections reported was 23,399.
