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In a video posted on social media, a man with a megaphone is seen approaching a dozen people standing and talking with a mug in hand.
– Warning for the mulled wine police! Keep moving!
The joke video alludes to raids by police in Germany in recent weeks. This includes interventions during what would have been a distance “mulled wine walk” between participants in Heidelberg this weekend.
When it became clear that some 200 people had gathered in the city to eat and drink, many of them without following the rules of keeping their distance and wearing mouth guards, the police withdrew.
Other attention The intervention took place on Saturday in a basement in Stuttgart, where eight people participated in what various German media describe as a “sex party.” The activity violated rules introduced during the corona pandemic, which, among other things, require people to keep their distance and wear mouth guards.
The federal states of Germany may decide to allow some Christmas shopping on the streets and squares in December. Financial losses are great in cities whose popular Christmas markets have had to be canceled.
Photo: John MacDougall
But at the same time Some laugh at the new duties of the police, the situation for the crown in Germany is worse than ever. On Wednesday, the highest number of deaths recorded in 24 hours so far during the pandemic: 590.
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder has declared a state of emergency in the federal state, which, among other things, gives the local government the right to impose a curfew. In Saxony, where three quarters of the intensive care units are occupied, schools, kindergartens and a large number of shops will be closed from Monday next week.
During Wednesday morning Chancellor Angela Merkel declared in an unusually emotional speech in the Bundestag that residents must once again make an effort to reduce the spread of the infection. The federal chancellor advocated tightening measures throughout Germany after the Christmas weekend, among other things by extending student holidays.
Before that, it is important to be very careful, Angela Merkel said.
– If we meet too many people before Christmas, and then it turns out that this was the last Christmas with the grandparents, then we really have missed something.
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