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German Chancellor Angela Merkel informed the prime minister on Wednesday of new restrictions to contain the pandemic in light of the surge in corona cases. According to a media report, the German government is pushing to impose drastic restrictions on Germany throughout the month of November, as can be seen in a draft resolution (until Tuesday night) for the conference that is available to the newspapers of the “Funke Mediengruppe”.
From November 4 to the end of November, citizens should be encouraged to “keep contact with other people outside their own home to the absolute minimum.” Therefore, staying in public is only allowed with members of your own household and those of another household. Groups of people who celebrate beyond this in public places, in apartments and in private facilities are “unacceptable in view of the grave situation in our country”, and violations of contact restrictions would be sanctioned. As Merkel and the country’s leaders have emphasized many times, schools and kindergartens must free themselves from restrictions.
That should be forbidden
Restaurants, bars, clubs, discos and similar establishments will be closed. The exception to this, as in the spring in the first crown wave, is delivery and collection for consumption at home.
In general, private trips and visits, even by family members, should be avoided. This should apply nationally and for national day sightseeing excursions. “Accommodation offers in Germany will only be available for necessary and expressly non-tourist purposes,” plan the federal and state governments in Germany.
Amateur sports and leisure businesses will be closed. These include theaters, operas, concert halls, trade shows, cinemas, amusement parks, arcades, casinos, gambling dens, brothels, swimming pools and amusement pools, as well as fitness studios. Cosmetic studios, massage practices, tattoo studios and similar businesses will also be closed in late November after preparatory work by the German Chancellery and state chancelleries to halt the dramatic rise in new infections. Medically necessary treatments, for example for physical therapy, should still be possible.
Hair salons must remain open based on existing hygiene requirements. Likewise, supermarkets must remain open in supply conditions to citizens. “You have to make sure that there is no more than one customer for every 25 square meters of sales area in stores,” according to information from the Funke newspapers.
To justify the strict measures, the bill states that the goal of the federal and state governments must be to quickly disrupt the infection rate so that far-reaching restrictions on personal contacts and economic activity are not necessary during the Christmas season. “Families and friends should be able to get together during the Christmas season even in Corona conditions.” As in the spring, this would require a joint effort. The German government fears that the number of new positive tests could reach 20,000 a day by the end of the week.
It remains to be seen whether the Foreign Ministry’s draft resolution will be approved one by one at Wednesday’s crisis summit. Individual federal states have already announced that they consider full closures to be wrong, for example in the restaurant industry.
