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Before country heads consulted with Chancellor Merkel on how to proceed in the crown pandemic, there were growing signs that the current shutdown with closed restaurants, cultural and leisure facilities and much of the retail will continue after the January 10.
“I hope that on January 5, when we meet again, we will not be able to assess everything accurately and therefore we will have to continue with the lockdown,” said Chancellor Helge Braun (CDU), RTL / n- television. Government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer said, however, current figures should be “treated with great caution” due to the holidays. She specifically referred to the more than 300 new deaths reported Monday. Furthermore, the situation in hospitals clearly shows how difficult the situation is.
Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) made a similar statement. In his opinion, the shutdown “should also be extended to early January,” he was quoted as saying. In mid-January you have to see how the holidays went and then plan more.
Thuringian Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left) also assumes that current crown restrictions will need to be extended beyond January 10. “If the prime ministers consult again on January 5, there will be no signs of relaxation,” Ramelow told the German publishing network (RND).
“Too soon” to give the go-ahead
“We all assume that the blockade has to be extended.” It was “too early to give the go-ahead,” the country’s chief said accordingly. He prepares for “we have to live with restrictions until March.”
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) had already told “Bild” on Sunday night that she was assuming an extension of the shutdown. “We are not done yet and we have to get well below an incidence of 50 to be in better waters again,” Schwesig said. Until then, “there is still a long way to go.”
Meanwhile, Lower Saxony Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) also lowered expectations for the first corona vaccines that took place on Sunday. The infection figures “should not be very reliable due to the holidays in the next few days,” said the SPD politician from the “Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung”. “So it is very doubtful that we can speak directly about relaxation again in the new year.”
Current restrictions nationwide with the closure of stores, schools and kindergartens are currently limited to January 10. The prime ministers of the federal states want to discuss how to proceed with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) on January 5.
The goal of federal and state measures is to reduce the number of new infections per 100,000 residents to less than 50 in seven days. However, so far, the so-called seven-day incidence value has been significantly exceeded across the country.
In Saxony, the state with the highest infection rate in Germany, the value according to SPIEGEL calculations on Monday was around 471 new infections per 100,000 people.
In Thuringia, which is less populated, there were an average of around 337 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants during the last seven days. It is the second highest value in Germany after Saxony. Only in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is the value less than 100.
