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Berlin (dpa) - Several federal states want to gradually open the schools that have been closed due to the corona pandemic in the coming weeks.
Berlin is planning this step for February 22nd, said the Governing Mayor Michael Müller (SPD) on Wednesday after federal-state consultations in Berlin.
Other federal states also orientated themselves on this date, added the current chairman of the Prime Minister's Conference (MPK).
Müller described the opening of schools and daycare centers, on which the federal states should decide independently, as a difficult process to weigh up between health protection on the one hand and the social consequences of more closed facilities on the other.
It is not about opening up in one fell swoop, but rather about “gradually ramping up classroom operations in primary schools” with alternating lessons, hygiene rules and also new test options for teachers and children.
The latter would offer “more security” so that the countries could go this route “with a clear conscience”.
"You can't leave school outside of the infection process," said Müller.
But scientists also said: "There are no particular abnormalities in the children, especially not in the very young."
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