Germany, record of deaths: 590 in one day. And Merkel calls for a closure on Christmas: “These deaths are an unacceptable price”

“If the price of the markets Christmas It is to have 500 dead per day, so it’s a unacceptable price“. The day that Germany play the new record deaths in one day, with 590 victims confirmed within 24 hours, the German Chancellery Angela Merkel before the Bundestag transforms his speech into a appeal listen to the requests that come from scientists and decide by more restrictions already in view of Christmas, as well as after the holidays. “What would we say if we couldn’t find a solution to these three days? Merkel asks the parliamentarians. “If we have many contacts now before the holidays and eventually we’ll have passed last christmas with grandparents, we may have missed something. And this we must avoid ”.

According to data from Robert Koch Institute, since the beginning of the pandemic, deaths in Germany are 19,932. The new infections were today 20,815. The Germany managed to have a mortality rate total lower compared to countries like Italy, Britain, France and Spain. But while the restrictions imposed in November, the lock light – they have slowed the exponential increase in cases, now the numbers keep climbing. Merkel has been there for days irritated due to the spread of contagion in Germany and on Monday announced to its CDU the need to a harder line for the fight against the pandemic. The Chancellor’s idea is to go through a hard blockage in the period pre me Send Christmas, from December 14 to January 10, with the extension of school holidays and the closing of activities, including hotels.

The request for a hard confinement period before and after Christmas comes from the Leopoldina Academy, but today Merkel endorsed it in front of the Bundestag, where she reiterated that the number of infections is still too high and the reduction in contacts resulting from current measures “Is not sufficient“.” We have to do something together, government and countries“He continued, underlining that” scientists are practically there begging reduce contacts for a week, before you can review the grandparents and people higher In Christmas”.

After various clashes and tensions, many prime ministers of the German Länder are now approaching the positions of chancellor. First are the Saxony and the Bavaria, where government officials have warned that high positive numbers could lead to collapsed hospitals. Hence the suggestion of a national bloc for a period of two weeks after christmas which would include the extension of school holidays by one week and the closure of all stores not essential in the country. In fact it is the same proposal of the Chancellor.