The corona virus continues to spread, now even the first event in 2021 could be affected by the pandemic. Jens Spahn expressed concern about the carnival.
- Jens Spahn is said to have expressed concerns about the carnival season.
- The carnivalists don't like it at all.
- They demand talks and not a hasty ban .
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Update from August 18, 8:19 p.m.: After it became known that Health Minister Jens Spahn was skeptical of the upcoming carnival season, carnivalists spoke up. The Cologne Carnival Festival Committee rejects a cancellation of the carnival at this point in time . "You don't have to forbid today what is supposed to take place in six months," said Michael Kramp, spokesman for the festival committee, the umbrella organization for most of Cologne's carnival clubs. "We do not consider a blanket cancellation several months before the session to be very effective ", added the President of the Festival Committee, Christoph Kuckelkorn.
According to Spahn's carnival forecast: Carnivalists speak up and demand a say
The President of the Federation of German Carnival (BDK) , Karl-Ludwig Fess, told the Rheinische Post that a cancellation for the strongholds would be "an economic disaster". He asked Jens Spahn to invite the federal association and regional representatives to a round table. "Health comes first, even with us carnivalists", says Fess, "but before events are canceled, there must be discussions about it."
Jens Spahn now apparently wants to cancel the first event in 2021.
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The Cologne carnivalists did not want to celebrate at any price, emphasized Kramp. If the number of infections continues to increase in the near future and the Corona Protection Ordinance is tightened again, for example so that only groups of up to ten people are allowed to meet, then carnival celebrations are of course not possible. But that cannot be foreseen at the moment, said Kramp.
Carnival before the Corona-Aus: Health Minister Spahn wants to cancel the winter season completely
First report from August 18, 4:01 p.m .:
Berlin - Probably nobody expected this message at the moment. While returning travelers are currently bringing the corona virus to Germany and thus causing an increase in new infections *, Health Minister Jens Spahn is already worried about the winter season . As the Rheinische Post now reports, citing participants in a telephone switching conference of the Bundestag's health committee, Spahn is already worried about the carnival.
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Accordingly, Spahn is said to have said: “I was a child prince myself and come from a carnival stronghold. So I know how important carnival is for millions of Germans. But: I simply cannot imagine Carnival this winter , in the middle of the pandemic *. That's bitter, but that's the way it is. "According to this, Spahn spoke out in favor of canceling the carnival nationwide in 2020 and 2021 as well.
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