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Chancellor Merkel wants to advance the next federal-state round to next week. According to media reports, she sees the need for swift action due to the British coronavirus mutation. There is no room for openings.
Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to discuss how to proceed in the crown pandemic with the prime ministers of the federal states next week and not as planned on January 25. Merkel made this clear in the evening at the CDU presidium’s online meeting in preparation for the CDU electoral party convention on Friday and Saturday, the dpa news agency reports referring to several participants.
There is currently no margin for vacancies. Merkel did not mention a date for the next round with the heads of government of the countries. Merkel probably rejected a report in the “Bild” newspaper, according to which the Chancellery was thinking of suspending local and long-distance public transport.
“Focus on nursing homes”
According to more information, Monday or Tuesday of next week is being discussed as the date for the next Prime Minister’s Conference with Merkel. But there has not yet been a determination. Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier said after this information that the next meeting should take place as soon as possible. One of the axes of the consultations should be that of the nursing homes.
In the next week, the development of the pandemic should also be discussed at European level with all EU heads of state and government, the Chancellor said accordingly. The variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in the UK is spreading much faster than the original form, scientists are very concerned. Everyone believes that the mutation of the virus is very aggressive and that its spread should be slowed down. Act now.
“Do not condemn the measures”
The director of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler, described the current blockade in Germany as a success: “In the sense that the numbers have not increased.”
Wieler said in the daily topicsHowever, there are indicators that show that the implementation of the measures is not working optimally. For example, there are nursing homes for the elderly and geriatrics where hygiene concepts are well implemented, while in other homes this is not the case. There are also companies where more people can work from home, Wieler said.
Wieler did not come out in favor of tightening the crown’s rules. “You can’t just condemn an entire battery of measures and say it won’t work if individual measures are not actually implemented.” The RKI had registered more than 25,000 new infections on Thursday. With 1,244 people, more deaths were reported in 24 hours than ever since the start of the pandemic.
