At the beginning of April, masks will be compulsory in all schools throughout Germany! This was decided by the Ministers of Education of all federal states on Friday at the Conference of Ministers of Education in Lübeck. As BILD learned, the decision applies from April 2nd.
In addition, the random tests – depending on the infection rate on site – are to be ended in May. After two years of the pandemic, children and young people should experience normal school operations again in the summer, the Ministers of Education announced. They agree that the schools should take a “careful path to normality”.
The procedure agreed between the states to relax the corona measures corresponds to the opening steps in other parts of society, said Schleswig-Holstein’s Minister of Education Karin Prien (56, CDU), who chaired the meeting.
Almost all measures should fall on March 20th
The masks-off in schools comes after almost all measures in Germany are supposed to fall on March 20th. Only: A mask must continue to be worn on buses and trains, as well as in old people’s and nursing homes and hospitals. Compulsory testing can also be ordered there, just like in schools. At least that is in the draft by Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (44, FDP).
But: In the so-called team caution it seethes. The health policy spokesman for the Greens parliamentary group, Janosch Dahmen (40), criticized on Twitter: “It is not very consistent to have a mask requirement in public transport, but not in the shopping crowd.” Means: He wants to sharpen the basic measures.
But the fact is: the omicron variant makes Corona no more dangerous than the flu!