Corona in Berlin: further school opening? Pressure on education administration grows

• The corona pandemic began in Berlin a year ago. Since then, 132,838 people have been proven to have been infected with the corona virus in Berlin. So far, 2918 people have died in Berlin with or from Covid-19. 124,886 patients are now considered to have recovered. 5034 people are currently infected with the corona virus in Berlin. The 7-day incidence in Berlin is currently 57.9.
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Berlin. The corona virus has been rampant in Berlin for a year. Vaccinations, incidence, number of cases, lockdown: in our news blog we keep you up to date on the current corona situation in Berlin and Brandenburg. Current information on the corona pandemic in Germany, Europe and the world can be found in this news blog.

10:22 am: 387,109 vaccine doses administered in Berlin – vaccination rate at 6.9 percent

A total of 387,109 vaccine doses have now been administered in Berlin. This means that Berlin has a vaccination rate of 6.9 percent for first vaccinations and 3.7 percent for second vaccinations. In Brandenburg the vaccination quota is 6.0 percent. It is currently the lowest in Germany. 230,157 vaccination doses were given there. This is reported by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI). The Saarland and Bremen report the highest vaccination quota nationwide with 7.9 percent each. A total of 8,431,264 vaccine doses were administered in Germany, which corresponds to a vaccination rate of 6.9 percent.

10.13 a.m.: High number of new corona infections in Brandenburg

The number of new infections with the corona virus is increasing significantly in Brandenburg. The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that 452 new cases were registered within one day. The previous day there were 305 and on Tuesday 136 new infections. The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days rose to 66.9 on Thursday, after 60.6 the previous day. According to the decision of the federal-state conference, certain easing of the corona restrictions should only be possible from a seven-day incidence below 50.

The hotspot in Brandenburg is still the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district with an incidence of 146.3, followed by the Elbe-Elster district with a value of 123.7. All other districts and urban districts were below the 100 mark. Frankfurt (Oder) has the lowest incidence with 22.5.

327 corona patients are treated in the hospital, 91 of them in intensive care units. In connection with the Covid 19 disease, eight people recently died in Brandenburg.

8.41 a.m.: GEW is skeptical of the administrative court’s school decision

After the Berlin Administrative Court declared the exclusion of individual grades from alternating classes to be illegal, the Berlin education union GEW fears an increasing risk of infection in schools. “I find this decision very worrying because the incidence is increasing even among young people and educators are little protected,” said the Berlin GEW chairman Tom Erdmann. He was skeptical about the prospect that the 7th to 9th grades could come back. “At the moment it is still so quiet at the schools because there are so few students.”

The education administration must implement the decision of the court, said Erdmann. “And now teachers in schools have to be protected as well as possible, for example through unbureaucratic vaccination offers.” So far, 1000 loops have to be made when allocating vaccination appointments.

8.35 a.m.: Another school opening in Berlin? Pressure on education administration grows

After the Berlin Administrative Court ruled that the exclusion of individual grades from alternating classes was illegal, the pressure on the education administration grew. Greens parliamentary group leader Silke Gebel demanded on Wednesday evening on Twitter that Berlin must implement the judgment quickly, “so next week. Presence is important for social interaction & education ”.

A spokesman for the education administration announced on Thursday: “We will now immediately examine the reasons for decisions received on Wednesday evening on these individual cases and then draw the appropriate conclusions as soon as possible.”

According to information from the German Press Agency, the education administration is already holding talks with school management associations, among others, about a possible return of the 7th to 9th grades before Easter.

The administrative court partially granted several urgent motions from students on Wednesday. They wanted to ensure that the classes were fully occupied again. Six out of seven also wanted to enforce that mouth and nose protection is no longer compulsory. The court disagreed on these points.

8.16 a.m.: Grips Theater starts online program for children

Children can have multiple projects of the Berliner Grips Theaters on the Internet in the near future look at. The theater starts a new online program on Friday afternoon. First of all, a recording of “Kai goes to war and comes back with Grandpa” by Zoran Drvenkar will be shown, as the theater announced. The premiere was planned for November 2020, but was canceled due to the pandemic. The new play is about eleven-year-old Kai, who deals with his grandfather and his memories of the war. The recording will be shown online for three weeks. This is followed by other projects, the videos are available free of charge.

8.15 a.m.: We are starting our new news blog on the corona pandemic in Berlin

You can read all previous news and developments on the coronavirus situation in Berlin and Brandenburg in our previous news blog.

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