Hard corona rules in Germany: Families with children should initially only be allowed to meet one other adult or child.
A critic hands out against the planned Covid-19 measure.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: From January 11th,
tough lockdown
due to the number of
Covid-19 cases,
again tightened
rules come
into force.
The
contact restrictions
due to
Covid-19
should
no longer exclude
families with children
under the age of 14 - there is some sharp criticism of this.
The President of the
German Child Protection Association
describes this
corona
rule
from
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)
and the country leaders as a "disaster".
Munich / Berlin - There is a new dimension of
contact restrictions
in the
coronavirus pandemic
: From Monday, January 11th,
a household
in
Germany
may
only meet with one person from another household.
That
already
happened in the first wave of the
Corona crisis
.
But: This time, toddlers under the age of 14
are
no longer exempt
from this
Covid 19 rule
.
Case study: A
family
can only
meet
with one
child
or one adult from another family.
Corona rules in Germany: Children under 14 years of age are not exempt from the one-person rule
But:
After all,
small children
have to be
looked after
by their
parents
.
And: How do you teach the little ones that they are no longer allowed to see their friends?
And what about the duties of legal guardians?
Political decisions and realities of life sometimes differ.
Which in this case sometimes leads to sharp criticism.
"I can only hope for our little ones that the exception will remain," said
Heinz Hilgers, President of the German Child Protection Association
, the
editorial network Germany
and sharply criticized the
Corona
rule
.
For their development
children
need their peers to measure themselves and to play, he said.
For
parents, however
, this tightening is a real "catastrophe," said Hilgers.
Finally, they were in the
children
-Betreuung sometimes to help the
family
instructed by friends or neighbors.
Corona pandemic in Germany: Child protection association sharply criticizes the one-person rule
Hilgers emphatically demanded a "improvement" of the measure, but there were no signs of this from politics - as of January 7th - but none.
The
Child Protection Association also
criticized the allegedly poor and short-term communication of the new rules.
"I find it disrespectful to present school and day-care center managers with a fait accompli at short notice," said Hilgers.
Many
parents also
have to
improvise
in the
Corona crisis in January
- once more.
(pm)