The coronavirus crisis in Lower Saxony continues to affect people even after the first easing. Now there is a warning about going back to full school. Under ticker.
- Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) calls for a differentiated view of the corona pandemic
- Swedish returnees must be in Corona quarantine for 14 days
- Teaching Association warns return to full school operations
Update of June 8: The President of the German Teachers' Association , Heinz-Peter Meidinger, has warned against a return to full school operation too quickly. "The schools can quickly become a corona super spreader - we must never forget that," said Meidinger to the "RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland". “For a return to regular lessons, the prerequisites must first be created. This is clearly still missing. "
Meidinger also accused politicians in Lower Saxony of insufficiently preparing the coming school year. “The problem is that we are currently hanging between two alternatives. Are we fully committed to a full opening of the schools again? Or will shift operations continue at schools? ”Said Meidinger. "At the moment, I see a paralysis of paralysis in which politics does not properly prepare one or the other."
A new, completely new hygiene concept had to be in place for schooling entire classes and constant classroom instruction . "The ministers of culture must develop this together with the health authorities quickly if they want to get the schools fully open after the summer holidays," said the association president. (epd)
Update from June 7th: Anyone returning from Sweden to their place of residence in Lower Saxony has to go into a two-week quarantine because of the corona development in the Scandinavian country . The Ministry of Health in Hanover announced on Sunday. The background is that there have been more than 50 infected people per 100,000 inhabitants in Sweden in the past seven days. The returnees must therefore immediately go to their own apartment or their usual place of residence and stay there for 14 days - even purchases are prohibited. The health department must also be informed.
Update of June 5: After a corona outbreak in Göttingen , several hundred school children are expected to be in quarantine for two weeks . After closing this week, the Göttingen schools are expected to resume operation on Monday under strict conditions, said Social Affairs Director Petra Broistedt (SPD) on Friday. The classes of children who were infected with the coronavirus would be quarantined at home . At first, a city spokesman could not say how many boys and girls are affected. Of the 120 people who were infected with the virus as a result of violations of the rules at private parties for the Muslim Sugar Festival, 39 are schoolchildren.
The mass test in a high-rise complex , which is the focus of the Corona outbreak in Göttingen , which started on Friday morning , would have involved a good 120 of the approximately 700 residents by midday. There were no incidents, Broistedt said. The mass test should be completed by Sunday.
Original article from June 3: Lower Saxony's Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) has warned against following scientific recommendations in the Corona crisis alone. "We have a very broad consensus in science about the danger of both climate change and the corona pandemic ," he told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (Tuesday). "But even with climate change, you can't just hope for scientific advice if you want to come up with a smart policy."
Prime Minister Stephan Weil says that one should not hope for scientific advice in the Corona crisis alone.
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In both cases, science is struggling as much as politics is asking what the best way is to avert social damage. "In any case, the view must not be one-dimensional," he told the NOZ. As with a lockdown, "the climate change also has serious consequences for society and the economy ," he said. (dpa)
All important information about the Corona crisis can be found in the archived Lower Saxony ticker from Kreiszeitung.de *.
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