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Söder warns about “permanent until summer”, now the emergency brake threatens
Doctors are calling for a return to the blockade across the country
In light of the growing number of new corona infections, intensive care physicians are calling for a nationwide lockdown to be re-locked. Meanwhile, outdoor dining is opening up again in some regions.
The relief is only two weeks old, and in view of the growing number of infections, calls for an “emergency brake” are getting louder. Doctors and politicians are calling for the vacancies at Monday’s federal-state summit to be dropped.
meJust two weeks ago some of the crown’s restrictions were relaxed in Germany, now people have to adjust to stricter rules again. In light of the growing number of cases and the slow progress of the vaccination campaign, political and medical representatives called on federal and state leaders Saturday to take the emergency brake during their deliberations Monday and reverse the recent relaxation.
The seven-day incidence value has almost reached the threshold of 100, and the trend is increasing. Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) told the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” on Saturday: “New openings make no sense in view of the renewed increase in infections. The emergency brake must be applied to all and constantly. ”
If you take the wrong steps now, you risk the third wave becoming a permanent one, Söder warned. “So it could all extend into the summer.”
Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) told RND newspapers in anticipation of the prime minister’s conference on Monday: “It is already clear that the current restrictions must remain in principle.” He also asked for the emergency brake.
“The third wave has begun”
Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) ruled out further easing. “The third wave has started, there is no need to ignore it,” Kretschmer told WELT. “We have to break the wave that is building up.”
Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) wants to take a different path: despite the growing number of infections in Germany, she would like to facilitate some relaxation in her country. Starting Monday, the outdoor catering will open with a “security mechanism,” Dreyer explained. With an incidence of seven days out of 100, the “emergency brake” is pulled.
SPD leader Saskia Esken got citizens in the mood for Easter locked in. It is “highly responsible if now in the federal states with high and rapidly increasing incidences, the easing is questioned and even withdrawn,” he told Funke newspapers.
The emergency braking mechanism is based on a specific decision by Chancellor Angela Merkel and regional leaders on March 3: If the seven-day incidence increases to more than 100 in three consecutive days in a state or federal region, it is pulled brake. Then the loosening should be reversed and the contacts should be restrained again.
What happens if the incidence is greater than 100?
In many regions, the emergency brake would have to be set a long time ago because the incidence has risen to more than 100. Nationally, the seven-day incidence increased to 99.9 since Saturday, according to the Robert Koch Institute. Merkel had already asked Friday night to “use” the emergency brake.
Medical representatives also joined the demands for stricter crown requirements. They criticized the slowness of the vaccination campaign. The director of the medical organization Marburger Bund, Susanne Johna, told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”: “The agreed emergency brake must definitely be applied, there must be no exceptions.” He warned of a dramatic escalation in the crown’s situation. “I expect an even more critical situation at Easter than at the turn of the year.” Capacities in intensive care units would then “quickly disappear.”
The federal president of the German Association of General Practitioners, Ulrich Weigeldt, criticized the decision of the federal and state governments to initially supply only a few doses of vaccine to doctors’ offices since early April. “The practices should not become the rest ramp if there is something left in the vaccination centers,” he said to the “image.”
The director of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, is also critical of the decisions made at the vaccination summit. “The decision does not change anything in the basic situation. We continue to vaccinate in slow motion, “Gassen told the business magazine” Business Insider. “
Employer President Rainer Dulger, on the other hand, demanded a change in strategy in the federal government’s crown policy. “The stubborn obsession with incidents is wrong,” Dulger told WELT. Greater openness in economic life is urgently needed, “because we are now at a turning point where many companies are losing steam.” The key is vaccination and testing.
