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Friday 20 November 2020
November’s partial lockdown is destined to break the second corona wave. So far this has only been partially successful; there are still more than 20,000 new infections every day. This is why Chancellor Merkel reportedly wants to extend the stricter measures until 2021.
The crown measures in partial blockade are applied until the end of November, but the number of infections remains at a high level. Consequently, Chancellor Angela Merkel should already consider longer-term crown resolutions, “Bild” newspaper reported, citing participants in the Union’s parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday. Accordingly, a winter strategy will be decided next Wednesday, with an outlook for January.
According to the daily “Bild”, Merkel wants to “give people some freedom” at Christmas. The turn of the year, however, will present the federal and state governments with “very, very difficult decisions.” The same applies to winter holidays in the ski areas. Merkel is said to have explained at the meeting that everything should not be knocked down on New Year’s Eve, for example, because the ski season in Austria is developing quite normally.
Therefore, a rapid end of the partial block is less likely. Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder also made it clear again that, in his view, easing the crown’s restrictions remains unrealistic. Successful therapy should not stop too soon, it should run out. Söder said it was possible to break the corona wave. “The exponential increase has slowed down,” he said. “But it’s not really going down.”
Meanwhile, Merkel had high hopes for speedy approval of a vaccine. The chancellor expects a drug to be approved in Europe from December or “very shortly after the turn of the year,” as she said after video consultations with EU heads of state and government. In the US, Pfizer and Biontech are expected to submit an application for approval immediately.
In Germany, health authorities reported 23,648 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in 24 hours. This Friday a maximum was reached, as shown by the information from the RKI in the morning. On Friday a week ago, the previous peak was reached with 23,542 registered cases.
