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Restrictions in New Zealand end
5.58 a.m.:
The recently reintroduced corona restrictions are ending in New Zealand's largest city, Auckland.
The lockdown should be lifted at midnight local time (12 p.m. CET), Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Monday.
A three-day lockdown was imposed in Auckland due to three new infections.
In addition, Ardern had ordered a nationwide obligation to wear mouth and nose protection.
Because of extremely strict measures and close contact tracing, New Zealand has come through the pandemic well so far.
In the island state in the South Pacific with just under five million inhabitants, there were only 2001 cases and 26 deaths.
A new case was reported on Monday.
The Ministry of Health announced that the patient has been in quarantine since Friday.
Vaccinations started in New Zealand last week.
Primary schools and daycare centers open in more countries
5.30 a.m.:
After openings in Lower Saxony and Saxony, daycare centers and elementary schools are resuming or expanding their operations with face-to-face teaching in another ten federal states.
Lessons should either take place alternately with half classes that come to school alternately, or in full operation with fixed groups that should not meet if possible.
More or all of the children are looked after in the daycare centers.
Each federal state regulates the details for itself.
"It is good that many schools in Germany are now gradually starting face-to-face teaching again," said Federal Education Minister Anja Karliczek.
Classroom teaching cannot be replaced by anything.
"Children, especially younger ones, need each other." In view of the number of infections, however, the CDU politician called for "taking all available means to prevent virus transmission" in order to be able to keep the school going for the next few weeks.
KBV boss: Anyone who rejects AstraZeneca vaccine has to wait
2.04 a.m.:
The head of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV), Andreas Gassen, speaks out in favor of a loosening of the vaccination sequence in view of the skepticism towards the AstraZeneca vaccine.
"If a vaccination offer is made to someone and it is rejected, that person has to go back to the bottom and others come first," said Gassen of the "Rheinische Post".
First, medical staff must be vaccinated in the area.
Gassen said that he had no understanding of not being vaccinated with AstraZeneca.
“Then you have to say: if you don't want to, you've already got it.
This discussion is absurd when there is a shortage, «said the KBV boss.
"The AstraZeneca vaccine is highly effective, more effective than any flu vaccine."
Esken pleads for the suspension of sitting in the Corona school year
1.33 a.m.:
SPD leader Saskia Esken has pleaded for students to generally refrain from staying seated in the Corona school year.
It would be "very helpful" to take the pressure off some students by avoiding non-transfer, Esken said in a podcast of the editorial network Germany.
She pointed out that during the long period of homeschooling, students who have little support at home and no space for quiet study have particular difficulties.
Esken added that she also generally doesn't think much of staying seated.
She considers this to be a "questionable measure" from an educational point of view and in relation to the development of the pupil, which does not work.
Partial performance weaknesses or a “difficult phase” that the student is going through personally would not be remedied by “simply repeating a school year”.
Instead of staying seated, support offers and good support for the student should be organized.
A few weeks ago, the Education and Science Union (GEW) demanded that all students should be transferred at the end of the current school year.
Montgomery warns of rising case numbers in case of easing
1.00 a.m.:
The chairman of the World Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, warns against loosening in view of the increasing number of infections.
"Anyone who talks about easing in times of increasing R-values is acting absolutely irresponsibly," said the doctor to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
Because with every opening there is a significant increase in the numbers.
»The incidence value shows where we are currently.
The R-value shows where we are going.
A value well above 1.0 threatens exponential growth again - and that is exactly the case now. «The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) stated the nationwide seven-day R value on Sunday afternoon as 1.10, it was thus for the third time in a row above the critical level of 1.0.
The seven-day incidence also climbed again to over 60 cases per 100,000 population.
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