Mask requirement
Medical masks must always be worn on buses and trains, when shopping, at church services, when visiting authorities and during health treatments. This includes in particular surgical masks and masks with the KN95 or FFP2 standard. Simple everyday masks or cloth masks (mouth and nose covering) will no longer be permitted in the areas mentioned in the future. In the other areas with an obligation to wear a mouth and nose cover, covers made specifically for this purpose are also required, i.e. cloths or items of clothing pulled over the mouth and nose are no longer permitted.
In senior citizens’ and care facilities, there are still mandatory quick tests for staff and visitors. Employees must wear FFP2 masks when they come into contact with residents.
Contact restriction
All contacts that are not absolutely necessary should be avoided. Private gatherings must continue to be restricted to one additional person who does not live in their own household. The total number of households should be kept constant and small. The contacts should therefore be limited to as few households as possible.
Home-Office
The federal government has passed an ordinance that provides for new regulations for the world of work (SARS-CoV-2-Arbeitsschutzverordnung). Central to this is the new obligation for employers to offer employees the option of working from home if there are no compelling operational reasons to the contrary. Stricter occupational safety regulations apply in the companies with regard to the distances between employees as well as the formation of permanent work groups and the wearing of medical masks (surgical masks, KN95 or FFP2 masks). The ordinance also provides that employers must provide their employees with medical masks if face-to-face work takes place and the conditions require it.
We
From January 25, 2021, extended emergency care will be offered in Hamburg instead of the limited regular care. This means that day care centers in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg are generally closed except for children with an urgent need for social education. After that, care is provided for children
- with an urgent need for care,
- whose parents carry out activities that are important for services of general interest or necessary for maintaining important infrastructures or security,
- who are dependent on care for family reasons or due to special individual emergencies and whose parents are single parents.
The parents are responsible for the disclosure. The social welfare authority will provide separate details shortly.
school
Distance lessons will continue to be given in Hamburg schools until February 14th. This means that the students usually study at home. We expressly appeal to all parents not to send their children to school. Only parents for whose children there is no other form of care have the option of continuing to send their children to school, where they are appropriately cared for under pedagogical guidance. Schools that currently have high enrollment rates are actively approaching their parents and working towards reducing the high enrollment rates.
Gatherings
A mask requirement applies to all gatherings. Meetings in the open air are generally only possible with up to 100 people, “elevators” are generally not permitted. Permission for gatherings with more people is granted in individual cases – taking into account protection against infection – by the responsible authorities.
Inquiries from the media
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