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Hanover (dpa / lni) - Lower Saxony would like to restrict the partial opening of primary schools after the federal-state resolutions on an extended and tightened corona lockdown.
"As far as the situation in elementary schools is concerned, changes are to be expected, the content of which the state government will decide in the course of the day," said Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) on Tuesday evening.
The reason is that the federal and state governments have agreed on a more restrictive handling of the previous resolutions regarding the situation in schools and daycare centers.
The primary school students in Lower Saxony only returned to schools on Monday after studying at home for a week - in divided classes.
For around 145,000 primary school students, lessons at school started again, the remaining half initially continued at home.
This triggered criticism from the Chancellery.
Education Minister Grant Hendrik Tonne (SPD) had emphasized the right to education, however, the restart of lessons under hygiene requirements had largely gone without problems.
Lower Saxony will hold on to teaching in divided groups for final classes and the prospective high school graduates, emphasized Weil.
All other students in secondary schools are in distance learning, the daycare centers are already closed and emergency care is being offered.
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Weil also said with regard to the topic of home office: "I welcome the fact that uniform regulations at the federal level are now intended to ensure that home office becomes the norm in professional practice wherever possible."
He asked those responsible in the Lower Saxony companies and other institutions to make working or service hours even more flexible than before for those employees who cannot work from home.
"We will do the same in the state administration," said Weil.
"Together, we must succeed in drastically reducing the risk of infection associated with full buses and trains."
The Prime Minister defended the lockdown extension despite the stable Corona situation in the state.
"The current comparatively good starting position, at least in Lower Saxony, must now be used to further reduce the number of cases and prevent the virus from spreading rapidly due to mutations."
There is a realistic chance of significantly reducing virus infections in February.
Despite more stringent and extended restrictions, Weil also looked at possible easing.
"If we succeed in getting below an incidence value of 50 infections per hundred thousand inhabitants and week with a few additional measures, individual areas can be carefully and gradually loosened again."
The more consistently people adhered to the Corona measures, the sooner everyone could live more freely again.