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Status: December 21, 2020 6:14 pm
For the first time in Lower Saxony, a district has imposed a night curfew. About 140,000 residents are affected in Bentheim County.
The curfew applies from Wednesday night. So houses and apartments can no longer be dropped off between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m., as the district announced Monday. According to the Hannover Ministry of Health, it is the first case at the national level in which a municipality in Lower Saxony takes such a step to contain the corona pandemic. The new rule in Bentheim County will initially apply until January 12.
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Walking allowed
There is only one exception for Christmas Eve. On that day, the curfew does not begin until 10 pm Roads that are unavoidable for professional or medical reasons are also excluded from the ban. People taking their dogs for walks are also possible, he said.
The district administrator sees no other way
In Bentheim County, there was a value of 210.7 new infections per 100,000 residents in a week on Monday. There is no way around stricter measures with an incidence value of more than 200, said district administrator Uwe Fietzek. Such a measure had already been implemented in numerous circles in other federal states such as North Rhine-Westphalia and Bavaria, he emphasized.
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