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Planned closure until April 18 – Lindner criticizes possible curfew
Christian Lindner: Considers that exit restrictions are “always disproportionate”
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The federal government is planning new measures against the corona virus. FDP chief Lindner criticizes the latest advance as “disproportionate”. SPD health expert Lauterbach objects, but also wants to avoid exit restrictions as much as possible.
FDP Director Christian Lindner has criticized the federal government’s proposed night-out restrictions as “disproportionate.” It’s “too strong a restriction on freedom,” Lindner said in the “Bild Live” talk. No one should bear the current risk of crown mutations. However, the situation in the hospitals “is not yet threatening.”
Due to the sharp increase in the number of corona infections, a draft resolution by the Foreign Ministry for the federal-state round this Monday is based on an extension of the blockade until April 18. Furthermore, the emergency brake regulation adopted in early March must be “implemented consistently.”
The draft also contains a passage that, due to exponential growth, foresees further tightening (“additional measures”) for districts with more than 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in one week.
The entire passage is in square brackets, which means it needs to be negotiated because it is particularly contentious. Among other things, there is talk of a night exit restriction until 5:00 am, “unless there are serious reasons to the contrary.” The start time is left open here.
The original is dated Sunday at 5.30 p.m. On Monday afternoon, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) will advise the prime ministers of the federal states on the next steps in crown policy.
SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach praised the attempt to extend the blockade, “without buts.” Without these measures it would be equivalent to an “incidence of 200” in the second half of April. As a result, the number of deaths “would at least double.”
Lauterbach does not yet consider that a nightly curfew to contain the corona pandemic is absolutely necessary. However, if the number of cases continues to rise rapidly, it is unlikely to be prevented, the trained epidemiologist cautioned. The reason for this is that the spread of the B.1.1.7 corona mutation is “four to eight times more contagious” than the previous virus when observed for one month.
“Until now, no country has managed to control the pandemic much faster with this mutation without there having been exit restrictions in the confinement,” Lauterbach said. However, it should be clear: “Exit restrictions are the last resort, try to avoid them.” The only possibility to do this is offered by a “very strict test concept” with two tests per week in all schools and companies. . The capacities to do so are “feverishly piling up.”
