Newsletter about the Coronavirus

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Integration Guides Service in Spandau / language mediation in different languages

E-Mail: integrationslotsen@giz.berlin

Telephone: ✆ 030 513 01 00 00, ✆ 0178 – 363 25 34, ✆ 0162 – 434 62 10

Migration Advice/ Mbeon:

E-Mail: mbe@giz.berlin

Telephone: ✆ 0151 – 555 30 25 7

Chat: via the App mbeon, available for free in the App Store or at Google Play

Mütter in Arbeit (Mothers in Work) / FEMentoring – Special offers for women:

E-Mail: fem@giz.berlin, mina@giz.berlin

Telephone: ✆ 0176 – 311 258 48, ✆ 0174 – 631 35 18, ✆ 0174 – 631 34 46

Willkomen-in-Arbeit Büro Spandau (Office for job-related issues)

E-Mail: wia@giz.berlin

Telephone: ✆ 030 513 01 00 70

Language courses of GIZ gGmbH – Registration and advice

E-Mail: sprachkurse@giz.berlin

Telephone: ✆ 030/ 513 01 00 00

• Registration and advice at Lerncafe Spandau, Mönchstr. 7, 13597 Berlin:

• Monday: 1 p.m.– 4.15 p.m.

• Tuesday/Thursday: 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.

• Wednesday/Friday: 1p.m. to 5 p.m.

Billion aid package for business, families and local authorities

With a 130 billion Euro package of measures to stabilize the economy, the Federal Government wants to secure jobs and get the economy up and running again after the Corona restrictions.

The package of measures includes:

• Reduction of the value added tax (VAT): From July 1 to December 31, 2020, the VAT rate is to be reduced from 19 percent to 16 percent and for the reduced rate from 7 percent to 5 percent.

• Children's bonus for families: parents receive a one-off payment of 300 Euro per child. The tax allowances are doubled for single parents.

• Strengthening the municipalities: The federal government increases its share of the costs for the accommodation of people in need, compensates half of the local business tax losses and strengthens local public transportation and the health sector.

• Electricity costs: From 2021, the EEG surcharge (it is paid by electricity consumers) is to be reduced through grants from the federal budget.

• Future package: Around 50 billion Euro will flow into sustainable fields such as the hydrogen economy, electric vehicles, quantum technologies and artificial intelligence (computer-based intelligence).

   

Further information can be found here:

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/themen/coronavirus/konjunkturpaket-1757482

Corona scale: The current situation

On the basis of the data values ​(7.06.2020), the light is green for the three indicators:

• Reproduction number„R“: value 0,85) → green

• New infections per week: value 5.1 per 100,000 inhabitants → green

• Proportion of places in intensive care units required for COVID-19 patients: Value 3.4%→ green

The overall declining trend of new infections did not continue in the 22nd reporting week. The number of cases in the past reporting week is slightly higher than the number of the previous week.

More information can be found here:

https://www.berlin.de/sen/gpg/service/presse/2020/pressemitteilung.941674.php

Opening of numerous sports halls for club sports

From Monday, June 8, most of the sports halls in Spandau will be available for club use again. As before, only 12 people per part of the hall are allowed to exercise at the same time keeping a minimum distance of 1.5 meters. Therefore, only contactless forms of training are possible, training sessions for team and contact sports are prohibited. Toilet facilities and changing rooms may be used and, like the halls themselves, must be ventilated regularly and adequately, especially when changing between sports groups. In addition, the responsible trainers or trainers are asked to have a list of attendances.

The following halls remain closed for non-school use:

• Sports hall Klosterfeld-primay school

• Sports hall Siegerland-primay school

• Sports hall primay school am Weinmeisterhorn

• Sports hall Askanier- primay school

• Sports hall Astrid-Lindgren- primay school

• Sports hall Carl-Schurz- primay school

• Sports hall Paul-Moor- primay school

• Sports hall Mary-Poppins- primay school

• Sports hall Schule am Grüngürtel (Inklusive Campus)

• Sports hall Bertolt-Brecht-Oberschule

• Sports hall Hans-Carossa-Gymnasium

• Sports hall Oberstufenzentrum TIEM

Daily at 6 p.m. - radio broadcast by WDR Cosmo in 9 languages

On the website of the Cosmo radio program, there are reports in Spanish, Turkish, Italian, Russian, Polish, Arabic, Kurdish and Greek every day from 6 p.m. The programs can also be listened to afterwards on the website. The focus is currently on information about the corona virus:

https://www1.wdr.de/radio/cosmo/programm/sendungen/livestreams-sprachensendungen-100.html

Handbookgermany.de offers multilingual Corona-Info

The website www.handbookgermany.de provides information in Arabic, Persian, English, Turkish, French and Pashto on various topics such as life, learning, law, work and advisory services.