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Com­pre­hen­si­ve ca­ta­lo­gue of mea­su­res for pro­tec­tion against CO­VID-19

Pres­se­mit­tei­lung vom 13.03.2020 - Rat­haus

Oberbürgermeister Claus Ruhe Madsen (11)School and day­ca­re clo­sures

Du­ring its mee­ting to­day, the ad­mi­nis­tra­ti­ve staff of Han­se- und Uni­ver­si­täts­stadt Ros­tock took ex­ten­si­ve de­cis­i­ons to de­lay the spre­ad of the co­ro­na or CO­VID-19 vi­rus.

"All of us to­ge­ther face the hu­ge task of pro­tec­ting our­sel­ves as best we can from the ef­fects of this new di­sea­se," said Ma­yor Claus Ru­he Madsen. "This is not just about our­sel­ves, but abo­ve all about pro­tec­ting peop­le who do not have suf­fici­ent im­mu­ne de­fen­ces due to their age, a pre­vious ill­ness or other cir­cums­tan­ces. Our ur­ban so­cie­ty must now mo­ve to­ge­ther in so­li­da­ri­ty and ta­ke ca­re of tho­se who ur­gent­ly need help.

We have a first-class me­di­cal ca­re sys­tem in Ger­many and al­so in Ros­tock. Howe­ver, if it is to be ab­le to cope with such a hu­ge wa­ve of ill­ness, it is im­pe­ra­ti­ve that we stop this wa­ve from rea­ching its peak.

With to­day's de­cis­i­ons, we will in­ter­vene hard in eve­r­y­day life. We are pain­ful­ly awa­re of this. We will have to re­as­sess the si­tua­ti­on eve­ry day and put our de­cis­i­ons to the test. Be­cau­se the­re are no simp­le re­cipes for such si­tua­ti­ons, but on­ly de­cis­i­ons ma­de to the best of our know­ledge and be­lief. The health of all peop­le is our top prio­ri­ty! We want to ta­ke pre­cau­ti­ons ra­ther than be­ing left be­hind at so­me point in the fu­ture.

I the­re­fo­re call on all Ros­tock re­si­dents to fol­low this path to­ge­ther with us. My ap­peal goes out to the com­pa­nies in our ci­ty, to the or­ga­ni­zers, to sports and lei­su­re clubs to make their con­tri­bu­ti­ons. If we let pu­blic life rest for a while, we will de­lay the spre­ad of the vi­rus and have a good chan­ce of sa­ving many peop­le from ill­ness and suf­fe­ring!

My thanks go to all tho­se peop­le who will be un­der ve­ry spe­cial strain in the co­ming days and weeks! The­se are all the doc­tors and nur­ses, all the me­di­cal and nur­sing staff, the emer­gen­cy ser­vices, the po­li­ce and fire­men, but al­so all the peop­le who will have to shoul­der ex­tra­or­di­na­ry bur­dens in the trans­port and sup­ply com­pa­nies, in the phar­maci­es and in the food tra­de. The chal­len­ges are hu­ge, but I am su­re that we will over­co­me them to­ge­ther!

Af­ter nu­merous dis­cus­sions and ex­ten­si­ve au­dits, the ma­nage­ment unit de­ci­ded on a far-rea­ching ca­ta­lo­gue of mea­su­res.

- All ge­ne­ral edu­ca­ti­on schools, vo­ca­tio­nal schools, day-ca­re cen­tres, day-ca­re fa­ci­li­ties and af­ter-school ca­re cen­tres in the Han­sea­tic and uni­ver­si­ty ci­ty of Ros­tock will be clo­sed from Mon­day, 16 March 2020 un­til 15 April 2020 (af­ter the Eas­ter ho­li­days).

For the ca­re of child­ren and ado­le­s­cents, a "net­work of pos­si­bi­li­ties" within the cir­cle of fa­mi­ly and fri­ends should be re­li­ed upon, whe­re­by grand­pa­rents should be ex­clu­ded as far as pos­si­ble due to the in­crea­sed risk.

Sup­ple­men­ta­ry edu­ca­tio­nal of­fers for child­ren who­se par­ents are em­ployees of pro­fes­sio­nal and vol­un­teer fire bri­ga­des, res­cue ser­vices, hos­pi­tals, the po­li­ce, nur­sing ser­vices, in-pa­ti­ent ca­re fa­ci­li­ties and me­di­cal in­sti­tu­ti­ons (doc­tors' sur­ge­ries, dia­ly­sis cen­tres etc.) will be pro­vi­ded in schools.

Child­ren ca­red for in day-ca­re cen­tres and af­ter-school ca­re cen­tres by em­ployees of pro­fes­sio­nal and vol­un­ta­ry fire bri­ga­des, res­cue ser­vices, hos­pi­tals, the po­li­ce, nur­sing ser­vices, in-pa­ti­ent ca­re fa­ci­li­ties and me­di­cal in­sti­tu­ti­ons (doc­tors' sur­ge­ries, dia­ly­sis cen­tres, etc.) re­cei­ve an ex­tra­or­di­na­ry ran­ge of ca­re for their child­ren. Ap­pro­pria­te ar­ran­ge­ments are ma­de with in­sti­tu­ti­ons to en­su­re this.

A ge­ne­ral ru­ling will be is­su­ed for this pur­po­se, which can be re­ad on the In­ter­net at https://​www.​rostock.​de/​pandemie

- In principle, vi­sits to old peop­le's and nur­sing ho­mes, the Süd­stadt Cli­nic and the Uni­ver­si­ty Me­di­cal Cen­ter Ros­tock are in­iti­al­ly pro­hi­bi­ted un­til April 14, 2020. De­via­ti­ons are re­gu­la­ted by the re­spec­ti­ve fa­ci­li­ty ma­nage­ment. 

- From now on, sports and other clubs should com­ple­te­ly re­frain from trai­ning, mee­tings and events un­til fur­ther no­ti­ce.

- In­door swim­ming pool ope­ra­tors, all sports and cul­tu­ral fa­ci­li­ties (ci­ne­mas, fit­ness stu­di­os, clubs, etc.) are stron­gly re­com­men­ded to clo­se.

- The ci­ty ad­mi­nis­tra­ti­on will tem­po­ra­ri­ly re­du­ce or com­ple­te­ly dis­con­ti­nue nu­merous of­fers and ser­vices. Star­ting to­mor­row, Sa­tur­day, 14. March 2020, no pu­blic trans­port will be of­fe­red in the fol­lo­wing of­fices: Au­dit Of­fice, Of­fice of Cen­tral Con­t­rol, Cham­ber of Com­mer­ce Of­fice, Fi­nan­ci­al Ad­mi­nis­tra­ti­on Of­fice, Fire Pro­tec­tion and Res­cue Of­fice, Of­fice for School and Sports, Ci­ty Li­bra­ry Ros­tock, Adult Edu­ca­ti­on Cent­re Ros­tock, Con­ser­va­to­ry, Of­fice for Cul­tu­re, Pre­ser­va­ti­on of His­to­ri­cal Mo­nu­ments and Mu­se­ums, Ci­ty Ar­chi­ve Ros­tock, Con­st­ruc­tion Of­fice, Of­fice for Ur­ban De­ve­lop­ment, Ur­ban Plan­ning and Eco­no­my, Ca­das­tral, Sur­vey­ing and Re­al Es­ta­te Of­fice, Of­fice for Traf­fic Fa­ci­li­ties, Of­fice for Ci­ty Gree­ne­ry, Na­tu­re Con­ser­va­ti­on and Land­s­cape Ma­nage­ment, Of­fice for En­vi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion, Port and Sea­men's Of­fice, Ros­tock Ci­ty Fo­res­try Of­fice, Ros­tock & War­ne­mün­de Tou­rist Of­fice as well as Ow­ner-Ow­ned Mu­nici­pal Pro­per­ty Ma­nage­ment and De­ve­lop­ment.

From Mon­day, 16 March 2020, lo­cal au­tho­ri­ty ser­vices will on­ly be of­fe­red in the lo­cal au­tho­ri­ty Stadt­mit­te. The ope­ning hours of the lo­cal of­fices Nor­thwest I in Groß Klein, Nor­thwest II in Lüt­ten Klein, West in Reu­ters­ha­gen and East in Toi­ten­win­kel will be can­cel­led.

- The in­door swim­ming pool "Nep­tun" and the Mu­nici­pal Mu­se­ums will clo­se from 14 March 2020, and the Tou­rist In­for­ma­ti­on Cen­tres will al­so cea­se to be open to the pu­blic from 14 March 2020.

- Spe­cial pre­cau­ti­ons will be ta­ken for res­cue ser­vice staff.

- Many ci­ty ad­mi­nis­tra­ti­on staff will work from home on Mon­days if pos­si­ble. Busi­ness trips and trai­ning cour­ses are current­ly no lon­ger ne­cess­a­ry, nor are con­sul­ta­ti­ons and mee­tings within the ad­mi­nis­tra­ti­on.

- As­sis­tan­ce for peop­le in do­me­stic qua­ran­ti­ne, such as shop­ping and other er­rands, is co­or­di­na­ted by the ci­ty ad­mi­nis­tra­ti­on and is in­iti­al­ly re­cei­ved by the ci­ti­zen's te­le­pho­ne on +49 381 381-1111.

- Sme­ars in the na­tion­wi­de smear cen­tres (tests for an exis­ting in­fec­tion) are on­ly pos­si­ble with a doc­tor's pre­scrip­ti­on. For this pur­po­se, the fa­mi­ly doc­tor should first be con­ta­c­ted by te­le­pho­ne.

- It is re­com­men­ded that the mu­nici­pal com­pa­nies in Ros­tock, but al­so all other com­pa­nies and in­sti­tu­ti­ons, ad­opt the­se re­gu­la­ti­ons, es­pe­cial­ly tho­se con­cer­ning tra­vel re­tur­nees, and ad­apt their busi­ness ope­ra­ti­ons as far as pos­si­ble.