Stock Photo - 12 January 2021, Saxony-Anhalt, Gardelegen: Pencils stand in a cup on the windowsill in an unused classroom at Karl Marx Secondary School. After the end of the Christmas holidays, the schools in the country are almost deserted. Only the graduating classes, such as the tenth grade and the ninth grade of the Hauptschule here, have attendance classes. Where normally countless students go to class or spend the breaks there is now silence. Due to the still comparatively tense Corona situation, stricter rules apply in Saxony-Anhalt as well as nationwide. Schools are to remain in emergency operation until at least the end of January. Photo: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/dpa-Zentralbild/ZB. - Gardelegen/Saxony-Anhalt/Germany