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Almost two-thirds of citizens want to return to face-to-face teaching
5:20 a.m.:
Almost two thirds of German citizens are in compliance with test and hygiene concepts for an immediate return of the schools to face-to-face teaching.
According to a survey by the opinion research company Civey on behalf of the FDP parliamentary group, 65.2 percent are in any case or rather in favor.
The survey is available to the German Press Agency in Berlin.
24.7 percent are definitely or rather against it.
One in ten is a draw.
The majority for the immediate return to face-to-face teaching ranges from 78.3 percent in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to 55 percent in Bremen.
The question is discussed controversially in the countries. In
North Rhine-Westphalia, for
example,
all 2.5 million students are to receive face-to-face classes again from May 31 - with a stable seven-day incidence of less than 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants. The state parents' conference criticized the fact that the recommendation of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) to only open when the incidence was less than 50 days was ignored.
In
Lower Saxony
, schools and kindergartens will switch to face-to-face and regular operation from May 31, when the seven-day incidence in the respective districts and major cities is stable below 50.
Baden-Württemberg's
minister of education, Theresa Schopper, said in an interview that she was hoping for “a little bit of normalcy” in the schools after the Whitsun holidays.
The
Brandenburg
state government wanted to advise on the resumption of full face-to-face teaching in primary schools this Tuesday.
Melbourne has to restrict itself again
04.32 a.m.:
On Tuesday, the authorities in the Australian city of Melbourne announced new corona restrictions.
According to this, a maximum of 30 people are allowed to meet outdoors, and masks must be worn again in restaurants and pubs.
The measures are initially valid until June 4th.
Melbourne wants to get the latest outbreak under control: Five people have Covid-19.
Melbourne is in the state of Victoria, and no new cases have been reported from there for almost three months.
Previously, the city had only got the second corona wave under control thanks to an extremely strict lockdown.
Criticism of Spahn for targeting an incidence below 20
04.07 a.m.:
The FDP and left
factions
criticize Federal Health
Minister
Jens Spahn (CDU) because he has named a corona incidence of under 20 as the target for a carefree summer.
"With his speculations, Mr. Spahn only spreads public uncertainty," said Deputy FDP parliamentary group leader Michael Theurer of the "Welt".
Left parliamentary group leader Amira Mohamed Ali said: "Concrete problem solving instead of ostentatious announcements would now be urgently needed." As problems, she named ineffective test situations in schools, alternating classes and a lack of vaccines.
Spahn had told »Bild am Sonntag« about the seven-day number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants: »Last summer it was under 20. We should strive for that again.
Caution and caution still apply. "
China vehemently rejects reports of sick laboratory workers
02:24 a.m.:
China has rejected a US media report that three scientists from the Institute of Virology in Wuhan (WIV) had come to a hospital in November 2019.
It is a "complete lie," the Chinese state newspaper "Global Times" quoted the head of the Wuhan Institute, Yuan Zhiming.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said the US was "continuing to work on the laboratory leak theory."
The "Wall Street Journal" had previously written, citing a US intelligence report, that three employees of the institute were so seriously ill in November 2019 that they had to be treated in hospital.
That would be significantly earlier than the previously assumed start of the outbreak, which is scheduled for December 2019.
The employees showed symptoms similar to Covid-19, according to the Wall Street Journal.
This could reinforce a theory that the virus was accidentally released at the institute in Wuhan.
Altmaier wants to pay state aid longer
1:16 a.m
.: Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier (CDU) promises the companies to extend the state Corona aid beyond the previously planned June 30.
"I promise you: We will continue this as long as there are a significant number of companies that are still suffering from the long-term consequences of Corona," says Altmaier in the political talk of the newspaper "Bild".
The federal government is still discussing the specific date of the extension of bridging aid.
"I would actually like to extend it until the end of the year because I know that it will take a lot of businesses a while to catch up," said Altmaier.
The prerequisite for the aid is that sales are at least 30 percent below the previous year.
Then you can specify certain fixed costs and receive other benefits.
Education Minister considers class-wise vaccination of schoolchildren to be conceivable
00:04:
Federal Minister of Education Anja Karliczek (CDU) considers a class-by-class vaccination of schoolchildren to be conceivable.
"Then you have to get permission from your parents in advance and then of course that's a possibility to organize it in school," she said on Monday evening in the political talk "The Right Questions" in the "Bild" newspaper.
It is important to enable regular face-to-face lessons again after the summer vacation.
The conditions for a rapid vaccination of students are good, as the vaccination campaign is picking up speed.
If it is possible to vaccinate schoolchildren from the age of twelve by the end of the summer, "then this is a good ticket for the younger ones to experience a lot of normalcy in class".
aar / dpa / Reuters / AFP
