BERLIN (AP) — Masks during class, masks only in the halls, no masks at all. Distance when possible, no distance within same-grade groups, no distance at all. As Germany`s 16 states start sending millions of children back to school in the middle of the global coronavirus pandemic, the country`s famous sense of “Ordnung” has given way to uncertainty, with a hodgepodge of regional regulations that officials acknowledge may or may not work. “There can`t, and never will be 100% certainty,” said Torsten Kuehne, the official in charge of schools in Pankow, Berlin`s most populous district where 45,000 students go back to school Monday. “We are trying to minimize the risk as much as possible.”...
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