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Hanover (dpa / lni) - Kita staff and employees at elementary and special needs schools in Lower Saxony can now be vaccinated against the corona virus with high priority in category two.
The corresponding decree was sent to the vaccination centers, which should "promptly" contact schools and child and youth welfare organizations and make appointments with the "vaccine-willing staff", the Lower Saxony Ministry of Health and Culture announced on Sunday.
All persons who work in child day care as well as in elementary and special schools should receive a vaccination offer.
Mobile vaccination teams could take care of the vaccinations.
Lower Saxony's Minister of Education, Grant Hendrik Tonne, spoke of a “good signal” for the employees.
In the daycare centers and primary schools, keeping your distance is often not possible - and also not useful.
The SPD politician emphasized: “However, all teachers and school employees of all types of school must receive a vaccination offer as soon as possible.
I therefore call on Federal Health Minister Spahn to adapt the vaccination ordinance accordingly. "
Lower Saxony's new Minister of Health, Daniela Behrens, said: "We all want the children in particular to regain a bit of normalcy, and that includes playing and learning together in school and daycare."
It was logical to make the employees a vaccination offer with the vaccine from Astrazeneca - as quickly as the vaccination sequence allows, said the SPD politician.
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For elementary school students and graduating classes, attendance will again apply from Monday.
So far, the parents of these students could decide whether they want to send their children to school or let them study from home.
From March 15, the schools will expand their operations: Then grades five to seven and the twelfth year will finish homeschooling.
You return to face-to-face teaching in an alternating model.
One week later, from March 22nd, all schools and age groups are to return to alternating classes.
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