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Government defends Corona security measures – dispute in the Brandenburg state parliament
The red-black-green Brandenburg state government has defended the restrictions on protection against the corona virus against criticism. “The successful use against the virus has a high price for all of our lives, ”said Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) on Wednesday in the state parliament in Potsdam. But: “We were able to break the wave of infections and prevent a major catastrophe.” Now it was necessary to wait and see how the easing worked. He warned: “We must not give up control of the virus again.”
The AfD faction opposed the restrictions and partially doubted the deadly danger of the Cororavirus. Group leader Andreas Kalbitz said that, from a current perspective, the coronavirus appears in the historical context “rather than a not even unusual wave of flu”. He called for an end to the requirement for masks, mandatory autopsies for corona deaths, and a study to assess the number of actual corona infections.
You can read more about the latest developments related to the corona virus in Brandenburg and Potsdam in the news blog of our colleagues from the Potsdam Latest News:
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“Open Gardens” canceled next weekend
The nationwide show “Open Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg” next weekend is canceled due to the corona restrictions been. Until Tuesday there was no approval for the series of events, with the amateur gardener in the capital and in Brandenburg 116 gardens open to visitors Urania Potsdam announced as a co-organizer on Wednesday. “We very much hope that we can at least open on the dates in summer and autumn,” says the managing director of Urania Potsdam, Karin Flegel. “In this situation, people are drawn to the countryside.” It is planned to offer a weekend from June to September. (dpa)
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Pedestrian lobby against sidewalk catering
Tables and chairs in free parking spaces? This is what a pedestrian lobby suggests – for more passers-by on the sidewalk. FUSS e.V. mobilizes against the planned sidewalk catering.
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Berlin CDU demands “digital quantum leap” in education
The Berlin CDU has published a strategy paper “Rethinking School”. The CDU parliamentary group leader in the House of Representatives, Burkard Dregger, said that the paper was intended to “act in front of the situation”. It is now a matter of making a “quantum leap” in the digitalization of education. “We have to learn to live with the virus. That is why we are driven by the question of how we deal with it in terms of school lessons, ”said Dregger. School is part of the “critical infrastructure”. Dregger and school policy spokesman Dirk Stettner presented the most important points in a virtual press conference on Wednesday morning.
In the paper, they demand that the upcoming summer vacation time be used immediately to make the schools digitally fit. So: With broadband connections and powerful WiFi equip. The Senate’s plan to put all broadband connections to all schools within the next four years is “crazy,” said Stettner. The money is planned for the household, but the period is too long. Monitoring and support for the accounts of the students should be provided by the state’s IT service center (ITDZ).
At the same time, all pupils and all teachers should be involved End devices, i.e. laptops or tablets. Upon request, Burkard Dregger gave the estimated investment volume here at around 100 million euros if all 360,000 Berlin schoolchildren and 33,000 teachers got one.
With that then one should Mix of virtual learning and classroom instruction be made possible in shift operation. “Virtual learning does not mean that analog content is emailed from the teachers to the parents, who print it out, the children edit it, and then it is scanned and sent back,” said Stettner. Virtual learning should take place interactively in a cloud. The CDU said the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) is here with his “School cloud” ready.
In addition, the CDU proposes, always alternately for the students Saturday classes introduce in order to “equalize” the attendance time of the lessons on site at the schools.
In order for the teachers to be fully operational, they should unite during the summer holidays “Digital driver’s license” have to take off. Those who fail to do so should receive compulsory training immediately.
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Trouble about emergency care in day care centers
“Bloated system relevance list”, “presented with an impossible task” and “left alone” by the Senate: The umbrella organization of children’s shops in Berlin is outraged by the requirements of the Senate administration to expand emergency care. On Tuesday she clarified that parents in systemically relevant professions continue to be entitled to childcare for more than four hours a day. The children’s shops ask: How should that work if you want to make a small offer to all children and comply with hygiene and distance rules at the same time?
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Tagesspiegel | Constanze Nauhaus
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Coronavirus homeless: Quarantine station opens
A quarantine station for the homeless is opened in the middle of Wednesday afternoon. According to the Senate Department for Social Affairs, it is not only the first in Berlin, but all over Germany. In 16 beds above the rooms of the emergency department of the Berlin City Mission, people without a permanent residence who are infected with the corona virus and should therefore remain in quarantine at home should be accommodated in the future.
“This quarantine ward is only for those who have confirmed infection, but not a severe course of the disease. Here they can be observed and are not left to their own devices, ”said Barbara Breuer, spokeswoman for the Berlin City Mission. Social Senator Elke Breitenbach (left), the City Council of Berlin-Mitte, Ephraim Gothe (SPD) and representatives of the city mission want to present the station on Wednesday. (dpa)
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Empty champagne bottles in the Tiergarten, smashed pizza boxes in Wedding and Neukölln, half sushi menus in Schöneberg … The Berlin city cleaning soon desperate.
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Tagesspiegel | Julius Betschka
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Travel agency owners demonstrate for more state aid
Owners of travel agencies and medium-sized tour operators are demonstrating this Wednesday from 11 a.m. in Berlin and other cities for more government aid in the Corona crisis. A parade of cars and buses from the Olympic Stadium to the Reichstag and the Federal Chancellery is planned. The alliance of independent travel companies has called for this. Together with other associations, they are calling for a federal special fund to process repayments for canceled trips.
This is intended to secure jobs in travel agencies and with tour operators. Because travel is severely restricted by the fight against the Corona crisis, many customers have canceled their vacation trips. Only two weeks ago, travel agency owners had moved to the chancellery. This time, 50 demonstrators are registered with the police. The Berlin Senate had only allowed registered corsos with bicycles or cars last Thursday. Previously, the satire campaign “My Gruni” had obtained approval from the Higher Administrative Court for a car parade on May 1st in the residential district in Grunewald. (with dpa)
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Brandenburg State Parliament debates the state of easing
The Brandenburg State Parliament will debate the state of easing this Wednesday from 10 a.m. The Green Group writes in its application for one Current hourthat it has to be checked constantly whether the restrictions on fundamental rights are proportional. The social and economic consequences of these measures are already serious and affect the most vulnerable in society.
The coalition factions of the SPD, CDU and Greens want one Rescue umbrella for social contact and advice centers with grants from the federal and state governments to prevent possible closures or bankruptcies. The state parliament had one last week AfD opposition’s application for a general lifting of the restrictions was rejected. (dpa)
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What is the Corona traffic light? We recommend the contribution of our editor Ronja Ringelstein, who has dealt with the new warning system of the Senate and explains which value leads to warning signals and when.
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Tagesspiegel | Ronja Ringelstein
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Restaurant Association Dehoga: New lockdown would be “absolute disaster”
The Berlin Hotel and Restaurant Association Dehoga has innkeepers and guests called for strict compliance with the hygiene ruleswhen the restaurants reopen soon. “It would be an absolute disaster if the number of infections rose again in two weeks and that Branch down again would, ”said the managing director of the Dehoga regional association, Thomas Lengfelder, the German press agency. There would hardly be any additional emergency aid from the state. For many companies that meant the end.
Restaurants with their own food offer may from Friday open their indoor and outdoor areas again until 10 p.m. under strict hygiene regulations. Among other things, they must keep a distance of 1.5 meters between the tables, including chairs. Buffets are forbidden, guests can only be served at their seats. (dpa)
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Public health officer criticizes Corona traffic light: “Figures out of thin air”
The new Berlin warning system for the corona pandemic is, in the opinion of Patrick Larscheid, the doctor in Reinickendorf, not the last word in wisdom. By doing Traffic light system the reproductive rate, the number of new infections and the occupancy of the intensive care beds with Covid 19 patients are the decisive warning factors. For example, if the mark of 20 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants is reached within seven days, the traffic light switches from green to yellow, and with 30 new infections to red. Larscheid criticizes these limits as arbitrary. “The numbers 20 and 30, for which there is no basis at all, is completely out of thin air,” he told the German Press Agency.
“I have to keep an eye on the development of numbers, that’s much more important than absolute values. In this respect, I’m not really happy with this system. ”For Larscheid, however, this point of criticism also applies to the definition of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants between the federal and state governments last week:“ The old rule has exactly the same weakness that the mere number was completely arbitrary. Neither of these are good models. “
The combination of the three factors is also not convincing from Larscheid’s point of view: “When you couple different things, you have to have an idea why you are doing this”, he said. It was precisely these three aspects that were chosen just decided been.
For the medical officer, who has repeatedly intervened in the public debate since the beginning of the corona crisis, this arises not least Question of what happens when the traffic light changes: “If we are in this yellow phase, that means that we should advise how to proceed. But what was not said: what should these consultations look like? And who is there to advise? “
If limit values are exceeded, this requires a very differentiated view, said Larscheid: “What is the background? What could be the cause of an increase? Do I have several large, well-controlled outbreaks within a certain area? ”Larscheid warns against not looking at such relationships. “The mere fixation on fixed values can quickly lead to a situation, ihe leads to restrictions for a large number of people, although this would not be necessary at all. “ (dpa)
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Berlin SPD parliamentary group calls for a clear hygiene concept for innkeepers
The Berlin SPD parliamentary group is calling for parts of Berlin’s gastronomy to reopen on Friday stricter hygiene requirements for the innkeepers. The regulations for restaurants and restaurants should be “more detailed and clearer” than described in the current Corona regulation, the group announced on Tuesday evening. “The restaurateurs urgently need the economic return in order to be able to maintain the diverse range in Berlin,” said SPD parliamentary group vice-president Jörg Stroedter. At the same time, the guests would have to be protected.
In an application approved on Tuesday, MPs from the government faction, Senator for Economic Affairs Ramona Pop (Greens), asked before Friday “transparent and comprehensible hygiene concept ”, which is also a prerequisite for the reopening of schools. (dpa)
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Too many demonstrators in Cottbus – rally is dissolved
A short-term approved demonstration by the right-wing association “Zukunft Heimat” against the corona restrictions in Cottbus was dissolved on Tuesday evening. To the rally on the old market significantly more than the allowed 50 people has come, said the spokeswoman for the South Police Directorate, Ines Filohn. Safety distances, for example, were not observed. The police had asked the chairman of the meeting to dissolve the demo. The officials have also repeatedly asked demonstrators to leave. The “B.Z.” had reported first.
The Cottbus administrative court had approved the rally on Tuesday. The police had previously denied the demonstration. The reason for this was violations of the distance and hygiene rules during the last rally last Tuesday, the police had said. (dpa)
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Corona walks through Berlin
You can also go for a walk during the pandemic. Here, Tagesspiegel authors tell about their favorite routes in Berlin. Today: Tegeler Forst.
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Tagesspiegel | Thomas Wochnik
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Tourismusverband Spreewald publishes Corona guide
The tourism association Spreewald developed recommendations for action for hosts and businesses during the corona pandemic. The association said on Tuesday that it contained practical and practical tips. The association also called on everyone living in the region from tourism to take personal responsibility and to strictly abide by the country’s containment regulation. From Friday, guests can again spend the night in holiday apartments or campsites in the Spreewald; from May 25, hotels and guest houses can also open. Relaxations are already in place for day tourism, for example canoeing has been possible since the weekend. (dpa)
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Brandenburg launches Corona Scholarship Program for Artists
Brandenburg’s artists and cultural workers receive financial support for projects in the Corona crisis. Minister of Culture Manja Schüle (SPD) gave the go-ahead for a program for on Tuesday Micro scholarships of 1000 euros each, as the Ministry announced. “We want to use an unbureaucratic instrument to ensure that Corona’s creativity survives,” said Schüle in a statement. A prerequisite is therefore a main residence in Brandenburg, membership in the artists’ social security fund and a brief description of the planned project. According to the information, for example, online concerts or exhibitions, but also research or format development for future projects and the writing of manuscripts are supported.
According to the Ministry, for the program four million euros provided so that each of the around 4000 artists in Brandenburg has the chance to receive a scholarship. (dpa)
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Currently 483 infected in Berlin – 170 people died
There are currently 6,294 confirmed cases of the novel corona virus in Berlin. That is 25 more than the day before. 483 are acutely infected. 5641 infected people are considered recovered.
412 people are isolated and treated in the hospital, 131 of them in intensive care. All other people are isolated at home.
So far, 170 patients with the new coronavirus have died five more than the previous day were reported. The median age of the deceased is 81.
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