Normal school operation after the summer vacation
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More about the experts All content is checked by medical journalists.On the sidelines of a meeting between the Prime Minister and Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), the federal and state governments agreed on a number of new corona rules, including the return to normal school operations.
The schools should return to normal operations in all countries after the summer holidays at the latest. This applies if the infection situation in the Corona crisis continues to develop consistently well.
"We need regular school operations"
How full school operations should be practically organized after the summer vacation will be discussed this Thursday by the education ministers of the federal states in a switching conference. Experts are also involved. "Everyone agrees that we need regular school operations again," said North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) before the meeting of the state leaders with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).
The education ministers and other state representatives had already expressed their intention several times that the schools should start operating again after the summer vacation. The distance rule should then also fall in the institutions, said the President of the Conference of Ministers of Education and Rhineland-Palatinate Education Minister Stefanie Hubig (SPD). In elementary schools in various federal states, classes are once again being taught without any distance rule.
Large events are prohibited until the end of October
In addition, the federal states want to ban major events in principle until at least the end of October. This applies to events at which contact tracking and compliance with hygiene rules are not possible. (hh / dpa)
