For the first time, RKI reports more than 18,000 new infections in one day

reThe coronavirus is spreading in Germany at record speed. The Robert Koch Institute reported more than 18,000 new infections in one day for the first time on Friday. According to the RKI, the health authorities reported 18,681 verified cases of infection in 24 hours. On Thursday it was 16,774. A total of 499,694 infections have been recorded since the outbreak of the epidemic. The number of people who died with or from the virus increased by 77 to a total of 10,349.

In the fight against the wave of infections, public life in the Federal Republic is drastically restricted in November. The federal and state governments agreed to this on Wednesday. However, a few days before the partial lockdown begins, there are doubts as to whether the new measures are legally tight.

“Why do nail salons have to close, but not hair salons?”

FDP attorney and vice president Wolfgang Kubicki wrote in a guest article for the “Passauer Neue Presse” on Friday: “The decisions remain so strikingly contradicted that it is only questionable when the first court will overturn them and not if”. The Vice-President of the Bundestag asks: “Why do nail salons have to close, but hair salons don’t? Why do restaurants also close when you’re still a long way from self-defined threshold values? “All this can no longer be explained.

Constitutional lawyer Ulrich Battis expects a successful wave of lawsuits. “I strongly assume that there will be a large number of lawsuits and that many will get away with it as before in the interim legal protection procedures, they will see the accommodation bans and curfew revoked,” Battis told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” on Friday. The first decisions could already be made next week. “But I don’t expect the courts to overturn the entire blockade.”