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View of a Berlin school class from the outside (June 2021): Do infected people have to stay outside?
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Several teachers' associations have spoken out against an end to the corona isolation requirement.
"Giving up self-isolation now would be tantamount to a contagion given the current number of infections," said the Vice Chairman of the Education and Science Union (GEW), Andreas Keller, the editorial network Germany (RND).
There is a risk of many infections, especially in staff rooms.
That could lead to school closures, he warned.
"That can't be the goal."
The Federal Chairman of the Education and Training Association (VBE), Udo Beckmann, also told the RND: »If all quarantine and protective measures are abandoned and infections can spread unhindered, there is a risk that the existing shortage of teachers will worsen to such an extent that the house of cards The school is finally collapsing.« The already tense staffing situation in schools has become »unbearably worse« due to the corona pandemic.
The President of the German Teachers' Association, Heinz-Peter Meidinger, warned that if quarantine and isolation requirements were lifted, in combination with other factors in autumn, there would be such a large wave of infections in schools "that school operations could be seriously endangered".
At the weekend, the chairman of the board of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, spoke out in favor of lifting all corona isolation and quarantine obligations in order to alleviate staff shortages.
This had sparked a heated discussion.
Objections came from Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD), who criticized such an approach as dangerous.
Currently, for the general population, the mandatory isolation for corona infected people can end after five days - with a "strongly recommended" negative test at the end.
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