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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - The Education and Science Union (GEW) has warned against easing the Corona emergency care at the Hamburg daycare centers.
"Should the extended emergency care be relaxed further, it is to be feared that the day-care centers will be reopened without checking whether the parents of the children who are brought in cannot actually organize home care," said the day-care center expert from GEW Hamburg , Jens Kastner, on Tuesday.
The educators would then have to look after more children as before without further protective measures.
They are already exposed to an increased risk of infection.
The union referred to an evaluation by the umbrella association of company health insurance funds (BKK), according to which there were 162 incapacity reports per 10,000 employees due to corona infection among daycare workers from March to November.
Even employees in institutions for the elderly and the disabled with 146 reports and from nursing homes with 144 reports are less likely to be infected.
"The figures that the social welfare authority reports on a daily basis suggest that they are only incompletely depicting the infection process in the Hamburg daycare centers," explained Kastner.
Since January 25, there has only been extended emergency care at Hamburg’s daycare centers.
This is limited to urgent cases.
This includes the parents' work in important areas or individual emergencies.
Before that there was a so-called restricted regular operation for all children.
The parents were only appealed to, whenever possible, to look after their children at home.
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