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On Wednesday starting at 2 pm, the federal and state governments want to agree on additional joint action to combat the corona pandemic. Some decisions are still open. For example, the mask requirement could be extended to parking spaces in front of retail, as is apparent from a draft resolution from the federal and state governments on Tuesday. The regulations should initially apply until December 20.
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Angela Merkel and regional leaders have agreed on this in a joint draft:
- Store: The mask requirement will be expanded and will also apply in the future in front of retail stores and in parking lots. Holiday shopping should be done during the week if possible. And: Stores cannot have more than one customer for every 20 square meters of sales area, out of a total area of 800 square meters. This is a major adjustment: until now, a customer has been allowed to stay in a smaller 10 square meter sales area.
- Meet with others: It is planned that only two households with a maximum of five people can meet in their own apartment. Young people under 14 years of age are exempt from the requirements. So far a total of ten adults are allowed, there has been no explicit restriction regarding the apartment, just a recommendation. There should be a special regulation for Christmas: then almost the old and currently valid regulations should apply for a short time. Then ten adults from different households should gather around the Christmas tree during the holidays.
- Schools: According to the will of the Federal Chancellery and the heads of state, the mask requirement should be applied in regions with an incidence of “significantly more than 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants” in the schoolyard and in the class for seventh graders, with the exception of schools where there are none. Coronavirus infections. The Christmas holidays should take place on December 19. start, except probably in Bremen and Thuringia. The obligation to wear a mask “can” also be introduced for grades 5 and 6. Also, in the future, a whole class will probably have to be quarantined at home as soon as there is a confirmed case of corona in the group.
- New Year’s fireworks: New Year’s Eve fireworks are allowed in the infection control measures contemplated, but it is prohibited “in busy squares and streets” to avoid “larger groups”.
- Cultural events: Cultural institutions like Museums, cinemas and theaters According to the plans, they should remain closed, but “as soon as possible in view of the contagion situation”, countries should be able to open them again.
At the same time, several questions remain open before the meeting of the leaders of the federal and state levels:
- Store:
- Schools: It is still controversial when it comes to hybrid teaching. On the one hand, this is likely to depend on a value of new infections per 100,000 new infections previously designated as “X”. On the other hand, it is not yet clear if the regulation applies from grade 7. And it is not yet clear how much money will flow towards school traffic: 2.5 billion euros of regionalization funds are considered safe, but more can be added federal funds.
- Restaurants and hotel accommodation: If you want to travel as a tourist, your cards are bad: hotels stay closed to him or her. Restaurants and cafes will also be closed, only a take away or take away service is possible. Whether this regulation should continue to exist beyond New Year’s Eve is still controversial.
- Train travel: The exact rules for train travel are still being discussed. However, in the future, train passengers will probably only be able to reserve seats by the window, with a double seat only one seat and with groups of seats with a table only the seats diagonally opposite. In the six-seat compartments, only two seats could be reserved. For customers traveling together, “areas will be provided where seats can be reserved next to each other.” Mask controls in long-distance traffic will be intensified and seating capacity will be increased. And: the seat reservation is probably only “recommended”.
- Test options: It is not yet clear whether the federal and state governments really offer “generous testing options” so that as many tests for cold symptoms as possible can be done, especially around Christmas.
- Economic protection of hospitals: There is still no agreement on exactly how the clinics should be financially supported. But it is quite possible that they will receive three billion euros, of which two billion will be included in the budget for 2021.
However, the latest draft resolution also includes a back door for prime ministers: states can deviate from these and other restrictions if their infection numbers fall below a critical value. The decisive factor for such regional relief is an incidence “well below 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in 7 days.”
According to the plans, said opening should depend, among other things, on avoiding contacts, ventilating the rooms well and avoiding the formation of groups. For so-called crown hotspots with particularly high numbers of infections, on the other hand, countries could tighten their regional restrictions. The draft resolution also states that the federal and state governments want to re-agree on how to proceed in the corona pandemic before Christmas on December 15.
