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In principle, yes until January 10, 2021: private meetings are only allowed with your own home and with another household, with a maximum of five people over 14 years old, younger children are excluded from the rule.
But in what constellation can families gather to celebrate Christmas?
For the time since December 24 to 26 the teleconference of decision makers agreed to a departure from the previous rule, which should allow a slightly broader framework for families than the previous rule. “Also in this special year, Christmas days should be celebrated together,” they say.
But who is allowed with whom? The answer from politics is – according to the work that SPIEGEL has at its disposal – a monstrous phrase of ten lines, composed of 81 words that could still provoke discussions, in politics, but also in families (the complete regulation can be find in the original at the end of this message).
Decryption means:
1. On Christmas Eve and Christmas gatherings are allowed with four people over 14 who go beyond their own home.
2. Children under the age of 14 are not counted.
3. In reality, only meetings with close family members should be allowed. Because this is difficult to delimit in formal terms, politicians have named various groups of people in concrete terms: “Spouses, civil partners, and partners in a non-marital partnership, as well as heterosexual relatives, siblings, siblings, and their respective members. of home”.
Four. Politicians are calling on everyone to take a “protection week” before a Christmas gathering and drastically cut down on all contacts.
An example:
One major Married couple so you can with an adult child, your life partner and all the grandchildren under the age of 14 celebrate. Then even an uncle and aunt could celebrate (Home plus 2 plus 1 plus 1)
But if the couple two adult children with life partners hat (Home plus 4) uncle and aunt have to celebrate alone.
Did the couple three adult children with your own family (Home plus 6) one of the children has to celebrate the opposite.
It looks different if one of the three children is of legal age, but still lives at home. Then, it counts for the parents’ household (household plus 4).
The examples also show how difficult it was for the negotiators to find a solution for Christmas. Apparently not all parties are happy with the wording that has now been announced. In a protocol of the circles of participants it is said that under the point “what is wanted is not expressed with sufficient clarity”. It should not be an exception, but an “added” for Christmas. Nor should it appear “that gatherings outside the family are not allowed. Only then do the usual contact restrictions apply «.
If you celebrate Christmas with friends, the general closing rule applies: a maximum of two households in total, no more than five people over the age of 14.
There is also an important restriction on paper: the Christmas rule only applies “depending on the respective infection process”. Should the situation escalate further, individual state governments could also adopt stricter contact restrictions on holidays.
Point 3 of the decision document as follows:
»In this special year, it should also be possible to celebrate Christmas together. However, in view of the high number of infections, this will only be possible on a much smaller scale than usual.
Depending on their respective infection rate, the federal states will meet from December 24 to December 26, 2020, as an exception to the applicable contact restrictions, during this time with 4 people beyond their own home plus children up to 14 years of age from the nearest household. Allow the family circle, that is, spouses, civil partners and partners in a non-marital partnership, as well as relatives, siblings, siblings and their respective household members, even if this means more than two households or 5 people over 14 years of age.
In view of the persistently high level of infection, citizens are again called upon to an absolute minimum in the five to seven days prior to family reunions (protection week). “
