GEW: Land must quickly buy 2,000 air filter devices

After the state parents 'council, the GEW teachers' union is now sounding the alarm because of the worsening corona situation in schools. "Air filter devices should be used across the board in schools in particularly frequented or small rooms," demanded the two GEW state chairmen Annett Lindner and Maik Walm on Thursday evening. "To this end, the state should now take over the procurement and distribution of at least 2,000 devices at short notice."

Schwerin - In addition, the corona tests in schools should be expanded from the point of view of the GEW. "Pupils and staff in schools should be tested three times a week (Monday - Wednesday - Friday) in order to achieve closer protection, especially for children and adolescents." People with symptoms of illness would have to be banned from entering school. In addition, it is important that the schools have enough masks and tests available so that they can react quickly to changes in the infection situation.

Lindner and Walm referred to the corona situation in Saxony, where a lockdown was already being discussed.

"If we want to understand what can await us here in the country in the coming weeks, then we have to look to the south now," they said.

The state of MV must now try with all consistency to turn things around.

"There is a red alert in schools."

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More corona infections among students and teachers

Since the autumn vacation, more corona infections have also been reported among students and teachers in Rhineland-Palatinate.

At the end of last week, 1,732 pupils who tested positive were on the list, as the supervisory and service directorate responsible for the state-wide school system (ADD) announced on Monday in Trier.

it had last been in September and in April this year similarly high numbers.

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Reserve pool of teachers has now 1,725 ​​points

They are used in cases of illness and to cover parental leave is used.

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The State Parents' Council had previously criticized the fact that the schools in MV had not been made pandemic-proof.

There are only a few air filter devices because they were considered too expensive at the time.

Education Minister Simone Oldenburg (Linke) had replied that the schools were well equipped for the coming months.

The seven-day incidence of new corona infections was 427.6 in the six- to eleven-year-olds on Tuesday, as the State Office for Health and Social Affairs (Lagus) announced.

In the twelve to seventeen year olds, the value reached 303.7.

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