Angela Merkel prays to families for patience at COVID-19

We are not yet at that point to open schools and gardens”, Chancellor Merkel said in her weekly message in videopodcast. „The more consistent we act now, the more we give up contact, where it is inevitable to keep distance, respect hygiene rules and masking, the sooner this will be possible” It's true that the infection numbers are dropping, according to Merkel, but at the same time there's a real danger from the very infectious mutations of Corona. Therefore, we need to be cautious and act discreetly in the coming weeks. ”

We do everything we can to open the first gardens and schools in order to give the children a part of their normal everydayity and facilitate families. ” Merkel stressed that „is an exceptional task” for mothers and fathers to care for and do duties together with primary school children, or to take care of children who should go to kindergarten. „We in the German government are very aware of how difficult the update is for parents and children. None of us underestimate this.”

Even now doctors and psychotherapists report massive increases in various pathological cases of children“, said the head of the German Association of Legal Security Doctors, UNV, Andreas Gassen. It is required that schools open as soon as possible, or destroy future educational prospects, Gassen told the newspaper „Rheinsche Post“. Schools really are together, but they haven't been noticed as the „catalyst for infection. “The director of the Children's Westphalia Clinic, Dominic Schweider, is concerned about cases of psychiatric and bodily problems in children from Corona's pandemic. In all walks of society, cases of problems and diseases have increased, Schweider said on German radio, „Deutschlandfunk“. As examples, he cited depressive conditions, problems with nutrition, weight growth, or pathological behavior. / DW