Update, April 27, 4:32 pm: No new Corona cases in Chemnitz
The city of Chemnitz reports no new corona cases for the second day in a row. According to the city, 196 people have so far been tested positively. Nineteen of the sick are treated in hospitals.
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Update, April 27, 3 p.m .: Saxon trade association is pushing for the rapid opening of larger stores
The Saxony trade association has pushed for the rapid opening of shopping centers and larger stores. That is a necessary next step, said managing director René Glaser on Monday of the German press agency.
Appropriate hygiene protection concepts were available for shopping centers, furniture stores, electronics stores as well as department stores and fashion stores. Glaser criticized what he believed to be the “arbitrary limit” of 800 square meters up to which shops were allowed to reopen. He therefore welcomed the recent move by Saxony’s prime minister as a “first step”.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer announced that together with Saxony-Anhalt’s Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (both CDU) at the federal-state decision-making round on May 6th, he would campaign for the opening of larger businesses. Anyone who limits their sales area to 800 square meters with the “cord solution” should be able to open under the applicable protection rules from the beginning of May.
At the same time, Glaser made it clear that this solution was not enough for retailers: “In a next step, we are demanding that the entire retail sector be allowed to open again.”
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Update, April 27, 1:09 p.m .: Exams in Corona times: Are the Abitur results contestable?
Complaints and objections to the Abitur exams in connection with the corona pandemic should be filed with the supervisory authority before the written exams or during the exams. The Dresden lawyer specializing in administrative law with a focus on school and examination law, Veronika Wiederhold, advises this. The contact points are the schools themselves or, as in Saxony, the State Office for Schools and Education, where a placement agency has been set up.
A general refusal to take an exam is very risky. If, in advance, the examination has been demonstrably complained to the responsible examination authority and the examination was expressly completed only with reservations, the question could then be clarified as part of an examination contest.
In the case of a mask requirement, Repeat believes that in the best case it should be demonstrably criticized before the examination. Students with pre-existing conditions, such as asthmatics, should also consider applying for disadvantage compensation.
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Veronika Wiederhold, specialist lawyer for examination law © Sebastian Kahnert / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa
Update, April 27, 1:02 p.m .: Two new cases in central Saxony
The district of Mittelachsen reports two more corona cases. This means that the number of people who tested positive in the region rose to 245.
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Update, April 27, 12:56 p.m .: Current figures from the Zwickau district
The number of corona cases in the Zwickau district has risen to 740. 35 patients are currently being treated in hospital.
The numbers in the municipalities:
- Bernsdorf 46
- Callenberg 6
- Crimmitschau 50
- Crinitzberg 13
- Dennheritz 6
- Fraureuth 16
- Gersdorf 6
- Glauchau 16
- Hartenstein 7
- Hartmannsdorf 3rd
- Hirschfeld 4
- Hohenstein-Ernstthal 47
- Kirchberg 7
- Langenbernsdorf 10
- Langenweißbach 2
- Lichtenstein 44
- Fir tree 5
- Limbach-Oberfrohna 12
- Meerane 5
- Mülsen 12
- Neukirchen 31
- Oberlungwitz 45
- Reinsdorf 22
- Remse 1
- St. Egidien 2
- Waldenburg 4th
- Werdau 127
- Wildenfels 6
- Wilkau-Hasslau 10
- Zwickau 175
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Update, April 27, 9:35 a.m .: Corona slows down amusement parks
The season in the amusement parks of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia should actually start at Easter. They were all ready to go. But the corona virus slowed them down. It is a disaster for operators and employees. Even if they are allowed to open again in summer, the losses can no longer be made up.
“We are currently only driving an emergency crew,” said Bazil El Atassi, managing director of the “Belantis” amusement park south of Leipzig. Only a few of the 250 to 300 employees are there to maintain the technology and keep the 25 hectare site in good shape.
Everywhere in Germany roller coasters and water slides stand still. It is not foreseeable how the demand will develop when the parks open again, said the managing director of the Association of German Leisure Parks and Leisure Enterprises (VDFU), Jürgen Gevers. Because of short-time working, some people may have more time during the week at the moment, but they may also pay more attention to money than usual.
Gevers made it clear that many an amusement park threatens to close forever: If the unusual start of the season in the Easter holidays should be followed by a ban on visits during the summer holidays, that could mean the end of around 40 percent of the parks.
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When visitors can ride the ferris wheel in the Sonnelandpark again is still uncertain. © PR / Anita Müller
Update, April 27, 9:04 a.m .: Ambulance shortens opening hours
As of today, the Corona ambulance in the Chemnitz exhibition has shortened opening times. You can find out >> when you can get tested there >> here.
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The Corona outpatient clinic in the Chemnitz exhibition center. © Kristin Schmidt
Update, April 27, 6:04 am: Mozart Festival in autumn
The Saxon Mozart Festival, which was planned for mid-May, is to take place in September. Of the 30 originally planned events, 20 could be moved to autumn. Tickets that have already been purchased remain valid.
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Update, April 26, 6:39 pm: Corona development in Chemnitz
The number of Corona cases in Chemnitz has not changed since Saturday. © TAG24 graphic
Update, April 26, 5:06 pm: Museums and libraries should be able to reopen from May 4
Museums, libraries and exhibition spaces in Saxony should be able to reopen from May 4th. Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) announced on Sunday.
The basis for the reopening is a protection concept of the museum association, with which the hygiene in the sanitary facilities is adapted and visitor concentrations in front of individual exhibits are to be avoided.
Kretschmer emphasized that he was talking about what was possible and not just what was not possible. “We make decisions with caution. It has to be about finding a life with the virus,” said Saxony’s head of government.
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Saxony’s museums and libraries are scheduled to open again on May 4 (archive picture). © Kristin Schmidt
Update, April 26, 3:15 p.m .: Kretschmer announces the reopening of the zoos in Saxony on May 4
Zoos and botanical gardens in Saxony should be open again from May 4th. That was agreed in the Saxon state government, said Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) on Sunday in Halle. There he had previously discussed with his counterpart from Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff (CDU), about the further course in dealing with the corona pandemic.
Details of the reopening of the zoos and similar facilities have yet to be determined, said Kretschmer. It is clear that long queues should not form and the number of visitors would have to be limited.
It is important that one can understand contact chains, said Kretschmer. In the mountain zoo in Halle, visitors would therefore have to pre-book season tickets online or the evening before, which can only be used in the specified window.
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The zoos in Saxony are scheduled to reopen on May 4th. © Kristin Schmidt
Update, April 26, 1:16 p.m .: Slight rise in central Saxony
As the district of Mittelachsen reports, the number of coronavirus cases has risen slightly. By Sunday 243 people had tested positive. The number of deceased patients has increased to four.
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Update, April 26, 1:15 p.m .: Number of cases in Chemnitz unchanged
The number of Corona cases in Chemnitz has not changed since Saturday. According to the city, 196 people have so far been tested positively. 19 of the sick are treated in hospitals.
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