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Berlin (dpa) - Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has defended the renewed extension of the lockdown including school closings because of the great concern about the mutated corona virus.
The risk that the virus will also be spread further by children and that the pandemic will be further accelerated is shared by many experts, said the CSU chief after consultations with the prime ministers of the federal states in Berlin on Tuesday evening.
It is important that action is taken before the mutated virus spreads further in Germany.
Söder spoke out in favor of not creating any additional stress in the school year, which was particularly stressed due to the pandemic.
Here it must be considered whether, for example, exams should be reduced or how the transfers could take place.
It is important to send a signal to students and their parents that the high quality of education is being maintained without additional pressure to perform.
Because of the mutation of the virus, which occurs particularly in Great Britain and Ireland, the now nationwide increased use of particularly protective masks in trade and in local public transport or at work is important, said Söder.
“If the virus becomes more dangerous, the mask has to get better.
Very easily."