[ad_1]
Uniform rules of the federal crown: The heads of the federal and state governments are currently negotiating in the Chancellery. There were many discussions in advance, especially about the accommodation ban. The summit is still going on, but initial agreements have already been reached.
The so-called Corona summit at the Foreign Ministry is still underway and negotiations are difficult, according to media reports. However, the federal and state heads of government apparently have already agreed on some joint measures.
Curfew, mask requirement, contact restrictions
According to information from ARD capital studies In cities and regions with rapidly increasing crown numbers, there is usually a curfew starting at 11 pm in the catering trade. This should apply from 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in a week.
According to reports from the dpa news agency, an extended mask requirement should take effect within seven days from 35 new infections per 100,000 residents. It should be applied where people come closer or longer.
According to the dpa, the summit participants also want to adopt stricter contact restrictions in regions heavily affected by Corona: if the incidence value exceeds 50, in the future only a maximum of ten people should be allowed to meet in Public spaces. If these measures do not stop the increase in new infections, this should be reduced again: then only up to five people or members of two households should be allowed to meet in public. Private celebrations should also be limited if the value of 50 warnings is exceeded: up to a maximum of ten participants and two households.
Controversial issue of the accommodation ban
There is apparently still a fight to ban travelers from hotspots in the interior of Germany. From the summit participants, the dpa learned that NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet had made a plea against the ban. He pointed out its consequences, such as the incorrect use of testing capabilities.
Health Minister Jens Spahn supported Laschet’s argument, especially with regard to testing capabilities. Rhineland-Palatinate, Hamburg and Saarland were also behind Laschet. Hamburg’s first mayor Peter Tschentscher asked Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder, a proponent of the accommodation ban, to answer the question of how he seriously intends to implement the ban. Söder was initially silent on the issue.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg advocated maintaining the accommodation ban. Schleswig-Holstein wants to keep it with restrictions.
Merkel: joint effort
At the beginning of the talks, Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the federal states to make a joint effort. “Do we want to take a bold step or meet again week after week like in the spring?” Said the CDU politician, according to the participants.
Merkel had emphasized several times beforehand that a new blockade should be avoided, that is, a closure of social and economic life as in the spring. The priority must be to keep the economy running and keep schools and day care centers running.
According to participants, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder warned his country colleagues to take a fast and uniform approach: “When it starts, it will go very fast. We will get back on the jump curve,” he said. Therefore, the only question is whether action will be taken in time, “because otherwise we will be here in ten days.”
Difficult negotiations expected
Even before the summit, government spokesman Steffen Seibert had stated that negotiations between the federal government and the presiding ministers of the states could be very difficult and would not ultimately lead to a unified line.
The conference at the Chancellery was convened to standardize the pandemic fight between the federal and state levels in the fall and winter. In many regions of Germany, including many large cities, the number of corona cases had increased enormously again in recent days and weeks. In some places, there is already the threat of exponential growth, and in the worst case, infections may be impossible to trace.
