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Potsdam (dpa / bb) - Classroom teaching at Brandenburg schools will be suspended until January 22nd.
The state government announced this on Thursday evening after talks with the districts and independent cities.
The final classes and special schools remain excluded from this.
In the week from January 18, the situation will be reassessed, it said after the deliberations.
Then it should be decided whether the primary schools could be opened for a change from face-to-face and distance teaching in the week before the winter holidays due to a significantly lower number of infections.
The daycare centers will therefore remain open as before.
However, parents are appealed to as far as possible to look after their children at home and to use federal wage replacement benefits and the extension of the entitlement period for children's sickness benefit for the period.
Depending on the local situation, daycare centers may be closed, as is currently the case for the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, for example.
Education Minister Britta Ernst (SPD) said the situation will be reassessed at the beginning of next week against the background of the then current data.
If the infection situation should have improved significantly by then, according to her, the second stage of the step-by-step plan comes into force - at the primary schools, lessons will then take place again in an alternating model.