The proven incidence of infection with the corona virus in Berlin’s general schools has roughly doubled within a week. This is shown by the figures updated by the Senate Education Administration on Friday afternoon. According to this, 13,571 schoolchildren are currently infected across the city. A week ago it was 6911. The number of staff has also almost doubled, from 774 to 1473 cases. The number of learning groups that were closed due to corona rose from 207 to 397.
The development at vocational schools is similar. There the number of infected schoolchildren rose within a week from 672 to 1208, and among staff from 59 to 97 proven cases. The numbers include both newly detected infections and those that are already known, but which have not yet been eliminated by a negative test.
The current seven-day incidence also illustrates the extent to which the virus is spreading: the incidence per 100,000 inhabitants was 3003 among ten to 14-year-old Berliners on Friday and also far higher in the age groups above and below 2000. In other words: in at least every second school class in Berlin, at least one child has been shown to have been infected with the corona virus in the past week alone.
The example of the Spandau district shows how much the infection process affects school operations despite relaxed quarantine rules. From Monday, 19 of the 58 schools there will switch to alternating classes with halved classes in attendance and some learning at home, said City Councilor for Health Oliver Gellert (Greens) in the Tagesspiegel. In the previous week, this only applied to five schools. And: High schools are also affected.
In the statistics of the education administration, the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district – which was unable to provide any data for days due to technical problems – now stands out due to the extremely high number of 123 closed learning groups. In the eleven other districts, the range is from seven (Tempelhof-Schöneberg) to 61 (Reinickendorf) closed learning groups, although the absolute number of infected students is sometimes larger there. The range of recognized cases of infection in school children ranges from 821 in Steglitz-Zehlendorf to 1721 in Mitte. Only 26 study groups are closed in the city district.
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In parenthood, opinions about the right level of infection protection seem to differ. After the day before the chairman of the state parents’ committee and chairmen from several districts in an open letter to the governing mayor Franziska Giffey (SPD) called for the easing of compulsory attendance and accused the Senate of downplaying the situation, other parents’ representatives contradicted on Friday.
In most parents’ committees, “no serious democratic decision-making about writing took place,” said the “Family Initiative”, citing members who are represented in the committees.
