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- The closure to combat the corona pandemic in Germany will run until January 31 and will even be toughened.
- In severely affected districts, freedom of movement is restricted to a maximum of 15 kilometers.
- Private gatherings are only allowed with members of your own household and with a maximum of one other person not living in the household.
The federal government and the federal states have agreed to this during deliberations. Therefore, people in counties with a very high number of corona infections face a drastic restriction on their freedom of movement. From a 7-day incidence of more than 200 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, federal states should take local measures to limit the range of movement to 15 kilometers around the place of residence. This can only be deviated for a valid reason. Tourist day trips are not a valid reason, it says in the decision document of the federal and state governments.
According to data from the Robert Koch Institute, 67 out of the total 294 districts, many of them in the federal states of Saxony and Thuringia, are currently affected by these mobility restrictions.
Schools are closed too
These measures and the conditions that have already been imposed will apply until January 31. Also, more contact restrictions apply: a household can now only meet with one other person. But this person can change. The new closure of restaurants, cultural and leisure facilities and points of sale at the end of January was also indisputable.
The closure of schools and nurseries will also last until the end of January. The federal government wants to regulate by law that child sickness benefit will be granted for an additional ten days per parent and 20 days for single parents this year.
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Merkel said after deliberations that the goal was still to reach an incidence of 7 days per 100,000 inhabitants under 50 years of age. The Robert Koch Institute gives the current 7-day incidence as 134.7. The institute reported 11,897 new infections on Tuesday. The total number of infected people in Germany rose to just under 1.79 million. The number of deaths increased by 944 to 35,518.
