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Laschet prepares the NRW population for “small and careful steps”
NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet. Photo: Picture Alliance / dpa / dpa
Dusseldorf NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet delivered his Easter speech on Sunday night. In times of the Corona crisis, he thanked people for adhering to the rules and, above all, asked for patience to relax the measures.
North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Armin Laschet spoke in an Easter speech during the crown pandemic of a difficult test. In the message broadcast on WDR television Sunday night, the CDU politician also emphasized that the developments of the past few days were encouraging. “The spread of the virus slows down every day.” Laschet campaigned for a road map to return to normalcy in everyday life.
Here you can see the speech in the video.
Laschet thanked the population for complying with the rules “to keep your distance and stay together.” And he thanked the doctors, nurses, nurses and rescuers, police officers, sales assistants, “who make sure that our lives, our daily lives, can continue as well as possible.”
Read the full text of the speech here.
The Prime Minister admitted that anything done to contain the virus would have negative consequences. “I think of the hundreds of thousands who suffer from short-term work, unemployment, those who now have to suffer from depression, loneliness and delayed operations, violence or brutalization, especially children among them.”
Therefore, he is convinced that the will to resign also needs a possibility of normalization, Laschet said. “We need a roadmap to show us the way to responsible normality.” A return to normality in everyday life is not possible with one big leap, but with many small and careful steps. In this difficult situation, the government and the opposition, the federal government and the state tried to decide together as much as possible.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the prime ministers of federal states want to advise on how to deal with the crown pandemic next Wednesday. From North Rhine-Westphalia, the Corona expert council convened by the Düsseldorf state government has already presented a document with possible exit scenarios for Corona requirements. According to the State Chancellery, the 15-page document “Path to responsible normality” has already been sent to the Chancellor for advice.
The twelve-member body of North Rhine-Westphalia advocates a responsible and gradual opening of social and public life. As long as the health system is not expected to be overwhelmed by the infection process and better monitoring of the crisis is possible, one way could be to gradually re-allow individual areas of public life and control containment measures for in a more differentiated way, says the report.
Educational institutions should gradually reopen as quickly as possible, “responsibly and in compliance with high standards of protection,” he says, among other things. Whenever possible, universities should continue to rely on digital courses. Concerts and theater could take place with distance rules and a limited number of visitors.
Experts advocate the expansion of scientific studies, as well as the development and expansion of other testing procedures. Up to 500,000 tests per day are mentioned as the target. In addition to symptom carriers and contact persons, employees of particularly vulnerable professions and residents, for example in nursing homes and nursing homes, should be tested at regular intervals and at regular intervals.
However, experts warn of premature optimism. “We are very likely to be repeatedly faced with a renewed increase in the number of infections.”
