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Berlin decreed, as of today, the closure of bars and restaurants between 23:00 and 06:00, to face the increase in contagion of covid-19 in the German capital.
The curfew applies to all commercial establishments, except pharmacies and service stations, and will remain in effect until October 31 and at least.
The sale of alcoholic beverages in service stations or supermarkets will be prohibited from 23:00 hours.
“This is not the time to party,” Berlin Mayor Michael Müller justified earlier this week. “We can and want to avoid a new confinement,” he stressed, addressing especially the age group between 20 and 40 years.
The Berlin Bar Association said the nightly lockdown was “disastrous” and is considering challenging the court decision.
Berlin’s nightlife is an essential component of the economy of the German capital, where more than 1,700 bars and about 6,000 restaurants are registered, according to the Statista institute.
The pandemic situation in the capital is worrying, with an incidence rate of more than 50 new infections per hundred thousand inhabitants for several days, which places Berlin in the “risk zones”.
The autarky led by the Social Democrats also decided to severely restrict social contacts, prohibiting meetings with more than five people in public spaces between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. During the day, the limit is set at 50 people.
These restrictions are even greater in the interior, where only ten people can join (instead of the 25 that were planned), with this measure aimed mainly at home evenings and illegal parties, which the Berlin authorities consider to spread the virus.
The German city of Frankfurt also adopted a similar measure, which took effect on Friday evening. In addition to the closure of bars and restaurants in that period, the authorities banned the sale of alcohol between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than one million sixty-three thousand deaths and more than 36.5 million cases of contagion around the world, according to the latest balance of the French agency AFP.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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