The Hamburg School Authority said that 78 percent of the 375 children who became infected between the summer and autumn holidays caught the virus outside school. At the same time, children under the age of 12 were half as likely to become infected as older schoolchildren.
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Many schools reported only one infection per year in ten days. According to local authorities, it is thus unlikely that the student in question transmitted the infection to his classmates. Most children became infected at home, at celebrations or at other private gatherings.
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Of the 472 schools in Hamburg, 171 facilities registered the disease, but only 23 schools reported it in more pupils.
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On 2 November, Germany introduced a partial monthly quarantine, such as the closure of bars and restaurants. However, schools and shops remained open.
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Some German Länder this week rejected Chancellor Angela Merkel’s call for stricter rules, including the mandatory wearing of veils in schools and restrictions on class sizes. The head of the German Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler, said on Thursday that there are currently approximately 475 outbreaks in German schools.
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The overall situation in Germany is better than in many neighbors. The institute reported 22,609 newly infected and 251 other deaths. Together with coronavirus in Germany, which has a population of about 83 million, 855,916 people became infected and 13,370 of them died.
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Unlike Germany, the Czech Republic closed all school levels in the autumn, and now the government is very carefully returning pupils to school. At least first and second graders could return to the classes this week, and from next week the classrooms will also be open to students in their final years of high school. Other elementary school students will return to school classes from Monday, November 30.
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