Overflowing garbage cans, full sacks piled up on the roadsides. These pictures from Great Britain went around the world at the beginning of January and at the time raised the anxious question: will Omikron soon plunge us into the waste chaos?
About two weeks later, Lichterfelde Ost, Lankwitzer Straße: Black sacks are growing up next to full garbage cans. We return for you? Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that! The women and men in orange have not been seen here for a long time.
Last Tuesday was pickup day. But none of the otherwise hard-working city cleaning colleagues came. Two bins remained unemptied, new residual waste was piled up next to it.
dr Sandra Ammar (58), who runs an orthodontic practice in the affected apartment building, says: “When I called BSR the next day, I was told that the garbage would be picked up on Friday, but nothing happened.”
When she asked again, she said: personnel problems because of Corona! The doctor worried about the condition: “Vermin are attracted, foxes and wildcats dig in the sacks.”
A BSR spokesman confirmed that there had been “irregularities in the disposal of residual waste”. 219 BSR employees are currently in isolation or quarantine – 128 of them with Corona. In individual cases, there are therefore shifts in performance and failures. Tours would have to be postponed.
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Other state services are also registering increased sick leave. Due to a “noticeably increasing trend” in sick leave, the BVG announced clock thinnings on January 19th and more for the 24th.
And police chief Barbara Slowik declared pandemic level 1 on Monday due to the absence of 15 to 30 percent of the police staff.
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