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Now it's final: Bavaria is bringing the start of the Christmas holidays forward due to the corona pandemic.
The last day of school before Christmas is Friday December 18th.
Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) said that to Bavarian Broadcasting.
This means that two school days are no longer applicable: originally, December 23rd would have been the first day of vacation.
The distance between lessons and Christmas will be increased, said Söder.
"We are thus improving the possibilities for families in Bavaria to be able to celebrate the most important festival of the year in a healthy and carefree way." The prime minister argued that the risk of infection was "considerably reduced" by the almost one-week waiting period between school lessons and Christmas.
Before the new federal-state consultations on the further course in dealing with the corona virus, the Union-governed states had spoken out in favor of such an extension of the holidays - at least that was the case in a joint paper.
First, North Rhine-Westphalia had submitted and announced an earlier start to the holidays.
In most federal states, December 18 is the last day of school before Christmas anyway.
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