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This has never happened before at any Corona summit. After three hours of awkward negotiations for her, Chancellor Angela Merkel became too colorful, according to information from Tagesspiegel. Rather than toughen up due to the rising third wave, several federal states strongly insisted on relaxing the holidays.
The Chancellor considered this to be a completely incorrect signal, as he had previously encountered resistance with the desire for nationwide curfews if the incidence of 100 was exceeded.
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Corona’s summit at the Chancellery was interrupted around 6:30 pm at his request. Actually only for 15 minutes, that was how it was initially planned.
According to information from the Tagesspiegel, many phone calls were made separately during the four-hour break. Above all, Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz tried to convey information from his side of the SPD, according to Tagesspiegel, it is considered that he always finds a solution to save face.
Everything was caused by the dispute over low-contact vacations in the country, in vacation homes or mobile homes only for citizens of the respective federal state..
The breakthrough was jointly carried out by the prime ministers of Schleswig-Holstein, Daniel Günther (CDU), Lower Saxony, Stephan Weil (SPD) and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Manuela Schwesig (SPD). The head of government of Saxony-Anhalt, Reiner Haseloff (CDU) and the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer (SPD), support this: “We simply defend our citizens,” said a state chancellery.
Dispute over motorhome holidays
After the federal government initially explained for a long time why, due to the low incidence, the return travel rules for Mallorca vacationers with mandatory testing and quarantine could not be more stringent and airlines should at least ensure that return travelers are screened at the airport. In mallorca, The three northern countries insisted on a note in the minutesin which they wanted to record their special trajectory. Supporting his citizens, Schwesig also wants to be re-elected in the state elections in September.
And in coastal countries the incidences are still below 100. Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) categorically rejected it.
If they did, then he could just let it be, said the Chancellor, as the country circles called him. Ultimately, the dispute over camping holidays is symptomatic of the difficult crisis management, while other countries are moving faster and faster with vaccination.
Friedrich Merz also speaks
And as if this dispute weren’t enough, Friedrich Merz from the Sauerland also spoke late in the evening, who is applying there for a Bundestag seat. He called on North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister and CDU leader Armin Laschet to take the “holiday course” and oppose Merkel.
Merz insists on allowing not only holidays in the holiday apartment or on the campsite, but more: “The hotels and restaurants in the Sauerland holiday regions have come up with hygiene concepts that can be implemented immediately. to Mallorca are possible again, then must Family holidays in the Sauerland are also possible “.
First agreement shortly after the start of the summit
Until this conflict, which symbolizes the side of the cautious and those who trust the most in a strategy of “living with the virus”, it was still halfway according to plan.
According to information from Tagesspiegel, an initial agreement was reached shortly after the start of the summit: the federal and state governments want the crown closed as previously planned. extend until April 18.
And: Contact restrictions will probably not be eased during Easter. With a view to the holidays, several countries insisted on exceptions. They demanded that meetings with four people outside the home be possible between April 2 and 5, even if the incidence value of 100 is exceeded. The point was then included, as a point not yet agreed, in the draft resolution of the Chancellery, but later it was rejected.
According to information from Tagesspiegel, the applicable contact restrictions would be maintained at that time also during Easter. If the 7-day incidence is greater than 100, only one household plus one additional person can be assembled. That would make the largest Easter gatherings between family and friends impossible. In some federal states such as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, visits within the nuclear family have so far been possible.
More points at the summit:
- In the run-up to the summit lack of rapid tests caused problemsthat the federal government did not deal with before. It is promised that there will now be more and more tests everywhere, especially in kindergartens and schools, and students will be instructed in the use of self-assessments.
- Two points for which Merkel could not find a majority: the chancellor wanted schools and kindergartens to be closed from an incidence of 100 if it is not possible to carry out two tests per week.. And a closure of schools and daycare centers with an incidence of 200 or more in 7 days: the federal states insist that they continue to be responsible for these questions independently.
- Also the one demanded by Merkel Curfew from the night before to the next day at 5 am a 100 incident was blocked before the long hiatus in negotiations.
Merkel justified the hardening and removal of the first loosening she wanted with the rapid spread of the mutant virus B.1.1.7. Without clearly restrictive measures, the number of new infections would increase so rapidly “that an overload of the health system is likely as early as April.”
A relevant part of the elderly population has already been vaccinated. But: the “according to current scientific knowledge carries more than 60 percent more mortality of the mutant B.1.1.7 now leading in Germany and the fact that younger patients generally have a longer stay in the intensive care unit They have contributed to the fact that the health system burden limit is not reached much later than before the vaccination of the elderly population, given the exponential growth.
On the other hand, it is clear: Contact restraints are re-hardened in many places. Because the incidence in many places is currently above the limit of 100, from which the “emergency brake” must be applied. Shops, museums, galleries, zoos and botanical gardens will also have to close again. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced Sunday that the number of new corona infections per 100,000 residents reported in one week was 103.9.
Since the federal states have handled it differently so far, it is emphasized with respect to the “emergency brake” for regions with more than 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days that this “must be implemented” consistently. “in view of the exponentially increasing dynamics of infection.
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As of March 7, gatherings with five people from two households, plus children under the age of 14, have been allowed. However, if it is the “emergency brake”, only meetings with someone outside the home, other than the children, would be possible.
Regarding the issue of travel, regardless of the debate on the exceptions requested by various countries for “low contact vacations”, a call is made to refrain from traveling: “The federal and state governments continue to urge all citizens to travel not necessarily within Germany and beyond that they refrain from traveling abroad, also with regard to the upcoming Easter days. ”
They expressly indicate that when entering from risk areas abroad, the obligation to enter the digital entry register is mandatory and that there is an obligation to quarantine for a period of 10 days from the return.
Call to companies – Advocacy emergency stop 100
In addition, it calls for more speed and an expansion of rapid tests, especially through a voluntary commitment from the companies. “Testing should be offered to employees at least once a week and, if available, twice a week.” The SPD ministers-presidents also appeal It is better to keep the offices completely closed.
The negotiations clearly showed: in view of the country’s vaccine shortage – only nine percent of citizens are immunized – and the lack of rapid tests for weeks, the pressure on Merkel to open up new perspectives is growing.
It is now becoming clear that Merkel is having trouble following a common course. For example, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Prime Minister Schwesig relies on other outlets after criticizing the federal government’s only moderately successful Corona warning app.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has acquired a state license for the “Luca” app jointly developed by rapper Smudo for 440,000 euros: visitors scan a QR code when entering and leaving a restaurant or theater; data is encrypted and transmitted to health authorities and only read out loud for tracking purposes.
Faster tests and better contact tracing deals for infections are considered key to opening clubs and concert venues. Recently 777 spectators were able to visit the Ostseestadion for the match between Hansa Rostock and Halleschen FC.
To with faster tests To better secure openings and enter a phase of life with the virus, even more such model projects must be tested. Rhineland-Palatinate is planning this for outdoor catering, for example. This attempt is also taking place in Tübingen.
The core conditions are “negative test results as access criteria, IT-supported processes for contact tracing and possibly also for test tests, spatial delineation at the municipal level and feedback close to the public health service,” he said in the template. federal-state. for the Summit.
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