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In the afternoon the Hamburg parliament had debated possible easing in the fight against the corona virus, in the evening the hour of the executive struck again when Hamburg's First Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD) made the decisions from his point of view following the federal-state conference represented and derived what these mean for the Hanseatic city.

In the area of ​​education policy in particular, the earlier vacation date at the beginning of March suits Hamburg, earlier there will be no return to face-to-face teaching, even if that would be possible.

The day before, school senator Ties Rabe (SPD) had made it clear that, from his point of view, there was no point in starting schools for two weeks.

Tschentscher also saw a significantly better level of incidence values, in Hamburg these are below 70, but the daycare centers and schools are still operating with the currently valid emergency operation.

“That means nothing for Hamburg at first,” Tschentscher said literally about the opening opportunities that other federal states want to use.

The hairdressing salons, however, are allowed to reopen in the Hanseatic city from March 1st.

Tschentscher justified this with the fact that this service was of "special importance for personal hygiene" and referred to the situation of older people who often could not look after their hair on their own.

Retail, gastronomy, sports and cultural providers will have to wait until the incidence value slips below the new level of 35.

The mayor believes that this is also possible with the previous measures, since a downward trend can still be observed.

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He sees the big risk, however, in the fact that the mutations could spread further and faster - in order not to get back to a reproduction value above 1 and thus in an exponential development, it is necessary to further reduce the incidence.

That is why Tschentscher called on the people of Hamburg to refrain from traveling of any kind during the spring break.

On March 3rd, the federal and state governments want to discuss the situation again, so all previous provisions will continue to apply in Hamburg until March 7th.

The head of the Hamburg Senate rejected concrete step-by-step plans, such as those discussed in Schleswig-Holstein, as it was “not responsible” to adopt them in view of the dangers posed by the mutations.

Although there are so far the first few cases in Hamburg - so far fewer than ten are known - overall, the verifiable proportion of infections with mutated viruses in Germany is already five to six percent, and the trend is rising.

“We have to see how things develop,” said Tschentscher.

It is now important to "slow down the spread as a whole so as not to suffer the risk of a third wave."

In its initial reactions, the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce viewed the resolutions with skepticism.

“The resolutions of the federal-state meeting exacerbate the already dramatic situation in Hamburg's economy.

Many entrepreneurs now have to continue to fear for their existence without planning security.

Even if no immediate opening was to be expected, many entrepreneurs had hoped for prospects through a step-by-step plan, ”said President Norbert Aust.

Through consistent vaccinations and the creation of rapid test options, new opening perspectives must be created immediately.

Chamber of Crafts wants regulation for beauticians

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The Chamber of Crafts, whose President Hjalmar Stemmann asked: “Why is the cosmetics trade not allowed to open again, but hairdressers are?

I assume that our Senate knows that hairdressers and beauticians must be part of the opening strategy together.

That is why I urgently call for a separate Hamburg route, which also allows the around 1200 craft cosmetic companies to reopen from March 1st. ”Due to the fact that cosmetic salons had higher hygiene standards even before the corona pandemic and at least during the corona pandemic Had equivalent hygiene standards had, an opening of hairdressers without opening the cosmetics businesses at the same time would not be understandable.

CDU demands concept from Rabe

Hamburg's CDU welcomed the measures taken in principle.

However, parliamentary group leader Denis Thering addressed a demand to school senator Ties Rabe: "Rabe must use the time until the end of the spring break to finally develop a step-by-step plan, from which incidence, under which hygienic conditions, which schools are allowed to reopen," he said.

The basis should be the extensive specifications of the Robert Koch Institute for safe school lessons under corona conditions.

"Because what must not happen under any circumstances is a renewed increase in the number of infections because again not all possible protective measures have been taken," says Thering.