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Classroom in Hesse (symbolic image): No evidence of infection at school
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Two teachers from North Rhine-Westphalia had complained to the administrative court in Düsseldorf.
They wanted to have their corona disease recognized as an accident at work.
The 23rd chamber has now dismissed both lawsuits, as the court writes on its website.
At the same time, a state tax officer complained that she too failed with her request.
According to the court, a primary school teacher (file number 23 K 8281/21) and a senior teacher (file number 23 K 2118/22) fell ill in autumn 2020.
In the first case, the teacher attributed her infection to a teachers' conference, as a result of which half the staff is said to have contracted Corona.
In the second case, two conversations with (potentially) infected students were named.
"Place and time of infection cannot be clearly determined"
The responsible district government had previously rejected their applications to recognize the infections as work accidents.
The teachers could also have been infected outside of school.
“As a rule, the place and time of an infection cannot be determined unequivocally – and this is also the case here,” the court formulated in the grounds for the judgment.
In none of the cases was the chamber able to establish that the civil servants were exposed to the risk of contracting the virus to a “considerably higher degree” than the rest of the population.
You can appeal the judgment to the Higher Administrative Court.
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