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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - The state government has expressed its regret that the decision to open the school has been further delayed.
"We would have been very happy if we could have announced today that our little ones can go back to care, together with other children," said government spokesman Rudi Hoogvliet on Wednesday the SWR.
It was the wish of Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) and Minister of Education Susanne Eisenmann (CDU) to enable face-to-face teaching again - albeit in halved classes and with reduced teaching.
But Kretschmann always made it clear that this decision could not be made independently of a pandemic.
In view of new cases of virus mutations, the decision must now be reconsidered, said Hoogvliet.
One now has to wait for the results of the laboratory.
Originally, Kretschmann and Eisenmann wanted to announce the decision on Wednesday that daycare centers and primary schools should be gradually reopened.
According to the state government, however, eight new cases of virus mutations have become known in the southwest, two of them in two children in a kindergarten in Freiburg.
21 people in the kindergarten are also infected, it must now be clarified whether it is also the new virus variants.
The variants initially detected in Great Britain (B.1.1.7) and South Africa (B.1.351) are considered highly contagious.
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