Lessons in some Ahrtal schools will soon be possible again

Some of the destroyed schools in the Ahr Valley are due to reopen at their locations in December - some initially in containers.

This was announced by Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) on Tuesday in Mainz after a cabinet meeting.

The construction of the schools is progressing rapidly and there is a lot of movement, so the exact number cannot yet be named, said the spokeswoman for the Ministry of Education, Sabine Schmidt.

Mainz - Dreyer promised that intensive work would continue on a solution for the two heavily destroyed special needs schools.

You couldn't move into containers.

The affected students would currently have to accept a very long journey to Neuwied.

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One day after the big unity celebration in Halle, there is another large police presence in the city center.

The cause is the “threat of a criminal offense”.

Two school sites are being cleared.

The mission will not end until the afternoon.

Vocational school evacuated in Halle: police are investigating the threat

Almost every second young person is completely vaccinated against Corona

Almost every second 12 to 17 year old in Schleswig-Holstein has been completely vaccinated against the coronavirus.

With a rate of 48.9 percent, the north is the front runner in Germany, according to the Robert Koch Institute on Thursday.

North Rhine-Westphalia follows with 41.4 percent.

Saxony-Anhalt came in last with 19.6 percent, the national average was 34.1 percent.

Almost every second young person is completely vaccinated against Corona

Over 200 people infected with corona in schools

The number of corona infections in schools is steadily increasing.

On Thursday, the State Office for Health and Social Affairs (Lagus) in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania reported 219 ongoing cases - 211 students and eight teachers or employees at a total of 51 schools.

The affected children and teachers are in two-week quarantine and cannot attend classes.

Over 200 people infected with corona in schools

Around 8,000 young people are affected by the damage to school buildings.

17 schools were massively damaged.

In addition to the two special needs schools, a vocational school and a grammar school in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler were particularly hard hit, as were elementary schools in Dernau and Ahrbrück and a Realschule plus in Altenahr.

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