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Söder wants a “complete lockdown” from Christmas to January 10
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8 December 2020, Bavaria, Munich: Markus Söder (CSU), Prime Minister of Bavaria, gives his government declaration during the session of the Bavarian state parliament. Photo: Peter Kneffel / d…pa +++ dpa-Bildfunk +++
Source: dpa / Peter Kneffel
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder sees the time between Christmas and January 10 as ideal for a “complete lockdown”. Everything should close. A federal state shows how it is since Monday: Saxony.
reBavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder has spoken out in favor of a “total lockdown” from Christmas to January 10. “Just shut down everything from stores to company vacations at many companies. If everyone participated, it would be great. Then we would have just under three weeks in which we could simply cut back on contacts. You will not find a better time than this between Christmas and January 10 in the whole year, “said the head of CSU on Wednesday night in the ZDF talk group” Markus Lanz. “
Söder was confident that there would be a round between Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the ministers of state before Christmas. Due to the Chancellor’s appointments at the EU summit, this could happen at the earliest on the weekend or early next week. Saxony Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) said in the ZDF “heute journal” when asked if such a round would meet on Sunday that there were many discussions.
“We have now decided on our Saxon route and will follow it consistently,” Kretschmer said. In the Free State, schools, kindergartens, after-school care centers and many stores will close as of next Monday. Grocery stores and basic necessities stores must remain open. Keeping shops, schools and daycare centers open, “that won’t have this effect,” Kretschmer told ZDF. He hoped that common results could be achieved with the other countries. In recent days, Saxony had become the country’s largest hotspot for the pandemic.
In Bavaria, stricter rules such as exit restrictions, alcohol bans in city centers and curfews at hotspots have been in place since Wednesday. When asked why Bavaria is not shutting down public life like it is in Saxony, Söder referred in the ZDF program to reducing infection rates on the one hand, exit restrictions, alcohol bans in some places and the fact that 40 percent of students are no longer in classes in the classroom for the other. Also, closing stores now carries the risk that alternative traffic to other countries will not bring the desired success.
