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“This is not the time to talk about a lot of easing,” says Söder.
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The federal and state governments are expected to discuss how to proceed in the crown crisis on February 10. If Markus Söder has his way, the big starts shouldn’t be a problem. The Bavarian Prime Minister warns, despite falling numbers.
secondAyern Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has clearly rejected a total relaxation of the crown-related lockdown since mid-February. Looking ahead to upcoming federal-state consultations, he vehemently warned Monday of “headlong relaxation competition” and a new patchwork of different regulations, even within individual states. Mistakes must be avoided. “It’s still about a lot of human lives.”
Current developments will be seen at the next conference, probably on February 10, the CSU president said in front of a video link from the party executive in Munich. But Söder already added: “Anyone who hopes that the grand openings can take place in a comprehensive way, from my point of view, is currently not responsible.”
Söder asked for patience, also because the British virus mutation is being detected more and more in this country. “And if there is hasty easing competition, then we really face a serious setback,” he warned. If you open with a seven day incidence of 90, you will be back to 150 in no time.
“Now is not the time to talk about great flexibilities; it is better to be thorough, longer, consistent, but then with the greatest challenge,” warned the Prime Minister. If you open too early, the consequences would not be foreseeable.
“It will really open up more and more when the time is right. And the time has come for incidents to be just as low, ”said Söder. Specifically, he emphasized with a view to the previously target seven-day incidence of 50: “50 is also a good guideline, but not automatically the number where you can do it all over again as before.” with an incidence below ten.
Söder also called for rules to be as uniform as possible, even within each country. “We need the same, fair and understandable rules for everyone.” There should be no “infinite patchwork quilt”. Different rules jeopardized basic acceptance.
And if you think of vacancies or implement them, then the school and nurseries would take priority, with high precautions like exams.
Söder believes that government intervention in vaccine production is appropriate
To eliminate the current shortage of corona vaccines, Söder also believes that the state’s production requirements are appropriate. “According to German ordinance law, there is also the option to purchase in such emergencies,” he said. The pandemic is an extraordinary emergency and no one should forget that vaccines are of the utmost importance to both the economy and health.
The goal should be to produce as much vaccine as possible in Germany as part of a national strategy. Söder criticized that this has been neglected until now. “Vaccination saves lives, vaccination creates freedom and vaccination strengthens the economic restart. And that’s why all capabilities have to be used, ”Söder said. For him, this also includes checking whether other vaccines could be approved. The European approval authority must act on its own initiative.
Unfortunately, the current bottlenecks in the supply of corona vaccines could not be remedied in the short term with additional premiums for manufacturers, Söder said. Here little is possible, “because everything that is available has been requested and part has already been paid for. That was more of a mistake from the beginning. “They ordered too late for Europe, very few orders compared to other countries, and” obviously they made the question of price a very decisive criterion. “
Söder emphasized that he did not see the error in the German Council Presidency, but in the operational order process. To permanently solve problems with the supply of vaccines, it must not remain in a single vaccination summit, but rather the format must develop further into a “regularly institutionalized platform” beyond the ministers of health.
Since the vaccination summit in Berlin, I expected there to be more reliability and predictability. “We have to know when the vaccination amounts arrive, and better more and faster than later and less,” Söder said. Nobody wants the current stop-and-go and it will only create more uncertainty and unpredictable consequences. “Vaccination is the great hope, but so far vaccination has been a disappointment.”