Berlin and Cape town is less than 10,000 kilometers. Both places have a lot in common, but the phones between the Mecklenburg, a small town on the Müritz and the South African metropolis at the Cape of Good hope do not stand still.
reason: Röbels mayor Andreas Sprick’s stuck in Cape town. “This is a very sad situation. The most Important thing, however: My wife and I are healthy, have no Corona symptoms,” says Sprick.
Sprick represents 18 municipalities
everything was Planned completely differently. 26. March, the CDU wanted to sit-politicians in his office at the Röbeler marketplace and the official duties again. But what had begun as a holiday, ended up as insulation in a Cape town apartment complex. There he sits since may 26. March. In South Africa, crisis of the Lockdown with a curfew and military controls due to the Corona. The airports are closed. Who is now in the country, must remain. “If we’re unlucky, up to 16. April. Then the Lockdown will be lifted,” says Sprick.
Earlier, the mayors of the 18 municipalities around Röbel had met at a two-week group tour through South Africa, the country and its people. “A beautiful country with great impressions. The I will not ruin me, also of Corona and our predicament,” he says. On the advice of the tour operator, he went into quarantine. “By 23 travelers of our group of 19 were tested positive for Corona. Now we must again to fresh air, but only in the plant,” says Sprick.
“The Wi-Fi is too weak to open attachments and stored documents”
The 60-Year-old sits daily on phone and Tablet to have a word with his Deputy in Berlin, what to do in the home. The generalization but only in a slimmed-down Form possible. “I am informed about everything, reading E-Mails, we talk about a lot. But I can not penetrate into the depth of the matter: The Wi-Fi in the resort is too weak to open attachments and saved documents.”
he could sort out a property matter. The property Department asked. “The thing I had in mind. Since I needed no documentation,” says Sprick. Now and again he needs to get out of the Wi-Fi. His wife, the wireless network also needs. The authorised representative of a road construction company with your boss on a daily basis in contact, is defined also problems remotely.
“I hope that we will be Corona-stay-free”
From the German Embassy in Pretoria, there are all the days in this “land of the people-letter”. The Ambassador brings hope, but a solution suggests itself. A German machine would come, but that the airports are tight. There is no permission to land. “I hope that we can Corona remain free,” says Sprick. The his son that leads to home, the construction company, who once headed Sprick senior hopes. “We talk a lot. In construction, there are no major restrictions,” says the mayor facilitated.
in Contrast, Sprick’s Worried about the Hotels and Restaurants of his Amtsbereichs: “To Easter, it is humming for the first Time in the year, really. Now but nothing more.” Psychological care he needed but despite all the Worry he stresses. However, it was terribly boring. “In between, the socks are washed times, you need employment.”
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Daily, a housekeeper from the resort for the Spricks and the other Isolated. “In the beginning it went quickly. Now it will take much longer. Obviously, there are difficulties in delivery,” says the mayor. “We write only the most necessary things on the list. The friendly helper is not intended for us to err through the city for hours.” A Good depressing Situation. Sprick: “I have never sleep over such a long time.” Hopp suggests, when Corona vaccine is available – and what FOCUS Online/Wochit Hopp can still reveals go wrong when Corona vaccine is available and what
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