Hard Lock: Lower Saxony Going Another Way? | NDR.de – news

Status: 09.12.2020 5:26 pm

Chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing for tougher action. Besides Bavaria and others, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania want to tighten the screws. Lower Saxony still speaks out against it.

The country is on its course for the moment and wants to avoid a hard blockade across the country. Anke Pörksen, a spokeswoman for the state chancellery, said on Wednesday in response to a request from NDR that “the state government will orient itself to the situation in Lower Saxony when taking further action. “No other general breakthrough of the Christmas holidays is planned.” There is currently no need for another crown crisis summit at the federal-state level. “Appropriate regulations can be made for Lower Saxony without further coordination between the federal government and the states,” Poerksen said.

Lower Saxony: no need to tighten measures

However, it is questionable whether gatherings of up to ten people from various households will be allowed from December 23 to January 1. “The state government is currently examining, as announced, the content of a successor regulation to the current one. This is particularly necessary in view of the upcoming holidays,” said the state government spokeswoman. The state government justifies its special route with the development of the numbers. The partial lockdown is working, although not to the extent expected, Economy Minister Bernd Althusmann (CDU) said on Tuesday. Althusmann announced a reassessment of the general situation at the request of NDR 1 Lower Saxony, but not in the coming days. Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) also made a cautious statement. Currently you do not see the need to tighten.

Mecklenburg and Schleswig-Holstein want a hard block

The trend in Germany is negative, the number of infections is increasing again. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) also reported 590 Covid-19-related deaths on Wednesday, a new record. That is why it is not only the heavily affected states of Saxony and Bavaria who want to close public life almost completely. Also serious are Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein, whose incidence values, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Wednesday, were even lower than the incidence in Lower Saxony. Mecklenburg had only tightened the measures on Tuesday. “We will have to speak again at the MV summit next Tuesday about the extension of the measures we have now, and I also expect further tightening,” Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) said. Schleswig-Holstein Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU) said Wednesday in the state parliament in Schwerin: “I think we can only come out of this crisis if we continue down this hard and clear path in Schleswig-Holstein.”

Lower Saxony opposition calls for predictability

The leader of the FDP parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament, Stefan Birkner, ruled out a stricter lockdown for Lower Saxony for the time being. He could not understand the current discussion, especially since the currently applicable measures have only been in place for a few days, said Birkner NDR 1 Lower Saxony. Birkner called for more composure and predictability in the debate. Everything else is “extremely harmful” in the current situation. Julia Willie Hamburg also spoke in favor of a long-term strategy and predictability. The leader of the Greens parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament demanded “finally clear statements” from the state government. Infection numbers should be “pressed” before Christmas. “More measures are needed,” stressed Hamburg. What these measures are must be decided politically.