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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The new infection protection law with the federal emergency brake will take effect in NRW schools from next Monday.
School Minister Yvonne Gebauer (FDP) made this clear on Friday in Düsseldorf.
"The new federal law automatically means that many children do not have to study in schools as part of distance learning, but at home again."
With a weekly incidence of 165 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, face-to-face teaching is prohibited.
And then when this value has been reported by the Robert Koch Institute on three consecutive days.
"The emergency brake then comes into effect the day after next."
The 165 code does not refer to individual municipalities, but to an entire district or an independent city.
On Friday, 28 districts and independent cities - more than half in North Rhine-Westphalia - were already above this threshold.
These included Cologne, a city of over a million people, and the third largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Dortmund.
For all districts and urban districts already affected, with an incidence of at least 165 that has existed for three days, this means a switch to distance teaching from next Monday.
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An exception applies to final classes and special needs schools, explained the Ministry of Education.
All final exams - including the Abitur exams that just started on Friday - could take place as scheduled.
In addition, emergency pedagogical care will be set up.
If the incidence falls again stably below 165 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week, the schools return to the alternation of face-to-face and distance learning - specifically “on the first Monday after the relevant determination” by the NRW Ministry of Health.
Until now, the limit value for schools across the country was a weekly incidence of 200 on three consecutive days.
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