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reThe SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach has admitted that the current partial blockade does not reduce the number of corona infections far from it as expected. “It’s about half as strong as we expected,” Lauterbach said Wednesday morning at the ARD “Morgenmagazin.” The reason for this is new sources of infection, for example in schools.
To prevent new infections there, there should be alternate lessons if possible. “We can do that for universities of applied sciences, for universities now we are establishing it for everyone. That should also be possible in schools, ”Lauterbach said. The agreement reached by prime ministers before negotiations with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday does not yet provide for an alternate instruction at the national level.
Lauterbach welcomed the proposals made by heads of country for the rules during the Christmas holidays. Consequently, up to ten people must be allowed from December 23 to January 1, excluding children up to 14 years old. “We also have to encourage everyone to come together to make this possible,” Lauterbach said. Loosening is not a routine matter, but depends on the infection process. In any case, it is important before Christmas that everyone enters a kind of pre-celebration quarantine.
Söder warns of relaxation during New Year’s Eve
The Prime Minister of Bavaria Markus Söder it came out in favor of strict contact restrictions also on New Year’s Eve, unlike what most countries seek. “Because Christmas is the festival of the family, New Year’s Eve is of course more the festival of friends,” said the head of CSU in the ARD “Morgenmagazin”. I would rather be more consistent at the turn of the year than at Christmas.
Söder called for stricter restrictions for regions severely affected by corona infections. “We need clearer rules, especially for hotspots, of which we have a lot in Germany,” he said. In schools, there should be a uniform mask requirement for teachers and students. “And of course we also need alternate lessons to equalize the density of the lessons, especially with older students,” Söder demanded. The lockdown deadline of December 20 is due to the Infection Protection Act, which allows the measures to be applied for up to four weeks. With regard to skiing holidays in neighboring countries, he hopes for a European solution. “That would be the best”.
The candidate for the presidency of the CDU, Norbert Röttgen, asked the federal and state governments to take uniform measures. “Acceptance drops if different measures are taken in each federal state, that confuses and causes disgust,” he told “Wirtschaftswoche”. Furthermore, “the measures always arrive a little late and are not always consistent.” We must return to the unity of the federal and state governments at the beginning of the pandemic. “It was a great success in the first phase that such a high degree of unity and uniformity could be achieved,” said Röttgen.
The presidents of the Greens in the Bundestag, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, called for uniform crown rules in the long term and at the national level. “What we need is above all transparency and honesty. And we need perspective. And that means we have levels of risk, “he said Wednesday morning in ARD’s” morning magazine. ” The rules should be applied uniformly across the country and should be applied based on the infection situation at the site.
The debates between the countries in recent weeks have generated uncertainty among the people. “You lose the big picture and you lose the courage,” Göring-Eckardt said.
The national politician of the FDP Konstantin Good it also required a long-term corona strategy. “We can already see that early business owners are giving up, that just courage and hope are slowly fading,” said RTL’s “Guten Morgen Deutschland” show. “This is why we finally need a long-term strategy until spring.”
Kuhle cautioned against letting fewer customers into stores before Christmas than before. “This is a program of desolation for the interior of the cities,” he judged. “If the stores have a functional hygiene concept, then it cannot be explained why the number of customers should be reduced even more now. Prime ministers and the federal chancellor urgently need to rework this. “
The prime ministers of the federal states want to discuss an extension of the crown rules with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) this Wednesday. On Monday night they agreed on a line with which they will enter into the deliberations. Consequently, contact restrictions should be tightened from the beginning of December. However, from December 23 to January 1, there will be a relaxation. However, shortly after the negotiations in the group of states, some heads of government already called for improvements. The question of what restrictions should be in schools is controversial.
RKI recently reported 18,633 new infections
According to a survey, the majority of German citizens consider it justified for the federal and state governments to limit private celebrations during the Christmas season in view of the high number of infections. In the representative poll conducted by the Civey opinion research institute on behalf of the “Augsburger Allgemeine,” 57 percent of respondents said it was right for the state to stipulate a maximum number of participants for Christmas celebrations in the pandemic. On the contrary, 36.5 per cent of German citizens consider it inappropriate for the state to intervene in private Christmas celebrations.
On Wednesday night, the RKI reported 18,633 new infections with the coronavirus in 24 hours. That was 1,072 more than on Wednesday of last week. 410 more people died from or with the virus, bringing the death toll to a total of 14,771. The total number of infections since the beginning of the pandemic is more than 961,000.
