At the Berlin schools, the mask requirement for the higher grades is to remain in place for the time being.
The hygiene advisory board spoke out in favor of this on Monday, as reported by the “Berliner Morgenpost” (Tuesday).
It no longer applies in grades one to six since the beginning of October.
The idea was to keep it for the older students after the autumn break.
Berlin - "The numbers simply do not allow for a loosening at this point in time," said Arnd Niedermöller, spokesman for the Association of Senior Academic Directors in Berlin (VOB), the "Berliner Morgenpost" with a view to the pandemic development.
The seven-day incidence rose to 114.9 in Berlin by Monday.
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Niedermöller pleaded for caution over the next few weeks.
At his school, the Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium, there was no proven corona case on the Monday after the end of the autumn vacation.
However, he reckons that the numbers among the students would increase in the next few days.
The Berlin GEW chairman Tom Erdmann also believes that the mask requirement is right: Otherwise, you would have risked quarantine for many classes, he told the newspaper.
And that is a first step towards closing the school.
For him the question even arises: "When do we have to return to the mask requirement with these numbers in elementary schools?" Dpa