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Holiday swimming courses for around 6,500 children
More than 6,500 children in Berlin learned to swim or improved their swimming skills in intensive courses during the school holidays this year. more
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More than three months after the war began, many refugees from Ukraine continue to arrive in Berlin.
From Friday to Sunday, around 4,000 refugees reached Hauptbahnhof (Berlin Central Station), the Senate Department for Integration announced on Monday. According to the report, 400 people arrived at the ZOB and around 600 at Südkreuz. At the arrival centre in Tegel, 625 people were distributed, 251 of them to Berlin.
According to the situation report, Berlin has temporarily accommodated 50,000 refugees through official channels since the beginning of the war. In total, more than 267,000 refugees are said to have reached the capital. It is not officially known how many people have been accommodated privately. Some of them have continued their journey or returned to Poland.
At peak times, around 10,000 people a day arrived in Berlin. Now it is said that the number of arrivals is "at a stable level". Not all people have been officially registered. Refugees can stay in Germany without a visa until 31 August.