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While in Italy control of Covid-19 seems to slowly give way, with more and more regions gradually drifting towards the more reassuring yellow risk with minor restrictions, they are not laughing across the border: in GermanyIn particular, on the last day the record of new infections was reached, almost 30 thousand, and also of deaths, up to 600. In the federal republic that had overcome the first wave of Covid-19 with few victims, the health system he’s in trouble as intensive care continues to fill up with patients.
The contested ‘blocking light’
And the history of infections on German soil increases disputes against the government, until yesterday in favor of the so-called ‘lockdown light’.
The push of public opinion would be causing some ministers to change their opinion, starting with the Interior Minister, Horst Seehofer, who, according to Ansa, would have even asked for an immediate closure.
The measures must be toughened “sooner rather than later,” Health Minister Jens Spahn said.
The head of state, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, also described the situation as “very serious”.
Merkel: no to last Christmas with grandparents
But above all Angela Merkel He told the Bundestag some words that sound like a phrase: “I am sorry with all my heart, but if the price is 590 deaths a day, it is not acceptable.” The chancellor said conduct that could lead to “last Christmas with grandparents” should be prohibited. Stores would be in focus. And the schools too.
And to think that in Germany, due to a substantially shared political option, with some exceptions, schools have never closed until today. Even during the spring close.
Local closures have already started
Now, however, Covid is really scary. At the local level there are already those who have come to the fore. Like the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia, Armin Laschet, who freed schoolchildren from the obligation to attend classes from Monday, when eighth graders will have to switch to digital lessons. “We need a closure as soon as possible,” he told a news conference.
Some sources indicate as a useful date to reach the closing of schools and shops on Monday, December 14. With reopening no earlier than January 10.
Next Sunday we will know if Germany has also had to bow to the force of Covid-19.
And in Italy?
In Italy, on the other hand, there are three scenarios and a certain date for the return to class of two and a half million high school students.
If there is no substantial news of the infections, the provisions of the Christmas Dpcm will apply over the next several weeks.
For the school, the indications of the Ministry of the Interior apply, which has written to the prefects to indicate which paths they will have to take to bring 75% of upper secondary students to school in presence as of January 7: Among the decisions to be made are, in particular, the intersections of the times of entry and exit to the school with the careers of the means of transport used by the students, precisely to avoid overcrowding.
