On November 25, the federal and state governments will discuss the further timetable for the corona pandemic - and the time frames for the measures.
Possible dates are already seeping through.
Chancellor Angela Merkel *
(CDU)
expects
a strategy for the winter
from the
Corona *
summit
on November 25th.
The
Münchner Merkur
was to already position paper of the Bavarian state government under
Markus Söder
(CSU *)
before.
Also a new media report suggests that the
partial lockdown
* well above the November also
extended
will.
You can find all information in our current news ticker.
Update from November 23, 9:40 a.m.:
People will probably have to be prepared for an extension of the so-called
Lockdown Light
.
Before the
federal and state
corona summit
on Wednesday, important preliminary decisions will be made on Monday and Tuesday.
On Monday, the country heads want to set their position for the Corona summit with Chancellor Angela Merkel.
There were already several preliminary discussions on the further
corona strategy
at the weekend
.
Update of 23 November, 7:45:
As long as the
corona able
not relaxed, are
students from 7th grade
in future also
in the classroom
a
mask
wearing.
This proposal is based on a
resolution
proposed
by
the state presiding over the Prime Minister's Conference (Berlin) for the deliberations of the states with Federal Chancellor
Angela Merkel
, as reported by the
German Press Agency
.
The mask requirement in class should therefore apply to school and vocational school students in regions with a significantly higher
7-day incidence
than 50.
Schools without corona cases can, however, be excluded from this.
In addition, a
test strategy
for the schools is
proposed
in the resolution
proposal.
If a
corona case
occurs in a class
, it and the teachers concerned should be
quarantined
for five days
.
On the fifth day there should be a
quick test
for everyone
.
If this is negative, the class can go back to school.
"In order to be able to apply this effective test strategy across the board, the federal government (via the federal states) will provide additional capacities for antigen tests," the paper says.
Before the Corona summit: special rules planned for Christmas
Update from November 22nd, 10:06 p.m.:
Now more details about the
corona position paper of the federal states are
known: The compilation available to
Munich Merkur
* shows, among other things, that the lockdown should actually last until December 20th - and can even be
extended by two weeks at a time
if the seven-day incidence does not drop below 50.
Experts only expressed doubts about this guideline in the evening.
The contact restrictions are also to be tightened (see update from 9 p.m.).
At the same time, however, the restrictions could be
“regionalized”
again: If a country
reaches
an
incidence below 35
before December 20,
easing should be allowed there.
The Prime Ministers, however, remain vague on the school issue.
It only seems clear that the environment of infected students should also be quarantined for five days across Germany.
You can read all the details at
Merkur.de
*.
For
Christmas,
meanwhile, special rules should apply: From
December 21st to at least 27th,
people from
more than two households should
be able to come together - it is still unclear whether there will be five or ten at a time.
Children under the age of 14 should not count.
Self-quarantine for several days is
recommended
for the period after the holidays
.
Agreements for the upcoming celebrations should be made with the churches - the guideline should be that large church services are to be avoided.
Before the Corona summit: Are the countries' tightening plans already clear?
Update from November 22nd, 9:00 p.m.:
The
federal states may
already
agree
on their
wishes for the next Corona summit
: As the
AFP
news
agency
now
wants to know
from a
draft resolution
, the prime ministers would like to
tighten the contact rules and mask requirements
enter.
Apparently, the idea is to limit private meetings to a maximum of five people from two households.
In addition, the current
lockdown
should be
extended
until December 20
.
There
could then be exceptions
for the
Christmas holidays
.
Corona measures in Germany: Merkel makes a hint at the press conference
Update from November 22nd, 6.45 p.m.:
Now
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) has
personally
prepared
the people in Germany for
further tightening of the corona
.
In order to regain access to the pandemic and the tracking of contacts, one must “certainly still do a lot.
But what exactly that is, I cannot and do not want to anticipate today, ”said Merkel on the Sunday
after the G20 summit
.
“The citizens should receive a unified, joint answer from the federal and state governments.
They actually have a right to that.
And this time we are working very hard on it, ”emphasized the Chancellor.
There are currently a large number of
roundtables
.
"The fact is that we are not yet as far as we would have liked to have come through the contact restrictions." In many federal states a
plateau of new infections
had been reached, in a few countries the numbers went down significantly, in others they rose .
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Angela Merkel also spoke on the Sunday evening after the G20 summit on the subject of Corona.
© Hannibal Hanschke / AFP
Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD)
appeared in front of the press with Merkel that evening.
With the
far-reaching restrictions, he
said, “the right thing was recently done” - but it is clear that this is not enough: “And that's why everyone suspects that there must be an extension.”
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU)
said in the evening on the ARD “Report from Berlin” that there was no reason to give the all-clear.
Therefore “we will certainly propose to extend the lockdown.
And in some places - especially in the hotspots - to be deepened significantly. "
Corona dispute and the effects: Merkel's Union, according to the survey, ahead
Update from November 22nd, 1:32 p.m.:
Even after the turbulence of last week, the
Union is
ahead of the polls, according to polls.
The respondents were apparently neither influenced by the new
Infection Protection Act *
nor by the
AfD-provoked scandal
in their political opinion.
On
behalf of
RTL Mediengruppe,
the
Forsa Institute
surveyed
2,505 Germans
from November 16 to 19
about their party preferences for the Bundestag election - and found only minor changes.
Compared to the previous week, the
SPD
and
FDP were
each able to gain one percentage point, with the
Social Democrats
at 16 percent and the
Liberals
at six percent.
The
AfD
(nine percent) and the
Left
(seven percent) fell back
by one point each
.
The CDU
and
CSU
were able to maintain their high level of 36 percent.
Before their groundbreaking party conference on the weekend, the
Greens stayed
at 19 percentage points.
In addition to the
Greens
, only the
Union is
above its last election result
in the
RTL survey
, in 2017 it still posted 32.9 percent.
At 23 percent, the number of non-voters or undecided is similar to the
2017 federal election
.
At that time it was 23.9 percent.
Corona summit is approaching: Scholz agrees Germany with a longer lockdown
Update from November 22nd, 9.21 a.m.:
An extension of the
partial lockdown
is probably inevitable.
Although nothing has been officially announced, the majority of politicians already seem convinced of it.
The
Christian Democrats and Social Democrats
at federal and state level are apparently in agreement and see no other way.
The
Bild am Sonntag
said
Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD)
: "Everything indicates that the current restrictions need to be continued for about 30 November addition, for some time."
Only on Monday do the state
heads
together with
Chancellor Angela Merkel
decide on
the timetable for the next few weeks - as well as
Christmas
and
New Year's Eve
.
But the
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU)
is aware, however, certain: "To spend a nice Christmas, we need to
lockdown
extend and certainly deepen" - and that "until we meet again at least the
incidence of 50
reached to have".
When the restrictions were issued at the beginning of November, the
value of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days was
already mentioned as the target, if the
health system
is then
not considered to be permanently overloaded.
The value is currently around 140.
Video: Infectiologist warns: Christmas as a "kick-starter" for Corona
Corona measures in Germany: Söder names the timetable for a tolerable Christmas
"If we
break
the
lockdown
at this high level of
infection
numbers
and lose patience, then everything starts all over again and we end up with even tougher measures than now in the
Czech Republic
or
Austria,
" Söder explained to the
Bild newspaper
.
"Better a longer
lockdown
now
than a
complete exit restriction
over
Christmas,
" said the
CSU politician
.
According to him, "in any case two or better three weeks" should go on as usual - that would be until shortly before
Christmas
.
The Union countries agree
to relax
the contact restrictions around the
Christmas holidays
so that people without family can celebrate the festival with friends.
The
SPD is also
involved.
Malu Dreyer
, Prime Minister of
Rhineland-Palatinate
, told the
picture:
“At
Christmas
and
New Year's Eve
people should be able to meet their loved ones.” Previously,
Chancellor Helge Braun had
told
the
editorial network in Germany
: “For me it is inconceivable that
grandparents
Don't celebrate at Christmas. ”But
Söder
slows down
the euphoria,
at least for the
turn of
the
year
:
Christmas
should be“ freer ”,“ but
New Year's Eve
more consistent ”.
For
New Year's Eve,
Söder would like to see a
ban
on
firecrackers and alcohol
in larger squares, probably to counteract the usual huge crowds in big cities.
But there is no need for
a general
ban on firecrackers
.
Update from November 21, 10:38 p.m
.: The
education ministers
apparently want to
speak
out on Monday that schools should be kept open in principle.
Only
if the
incidence
values are
high should the higher grades
switch
to
alternating lessons
, in exceptional cases also in lower grades in secondary schools.
However, there are no exact numerical values for this.
This information is
now available to
the
dpa
after a meeting of the Conference of Ministers of Education on Friday afternoon.
Update from November 21, 9:22 p.m
.: More and more information is seeping through, there are
signs
: The
partial lockdown
could be extended beyond November 30.
Most recently, the
Bild newspaper
wanted to know that leisure facilities, fitness centers, restaurants and pubs should remain closed and that contact restrictions should be extended.
But there could also be good news regarding the Christmas lockdown.
Before the Corona summit: Merz - "It is none of the government's business how I celebrate Christmas with my family"
Update from November 21, 4:55 p.m
.: "I personally say: It is none of the government's business how I celebrate Christmas with my family," said
Friedrich Merz
, the candidate for the
CDU federal chairmanship
in an interview with the Tagesspiegel:
“Personally, I say: It is none of the government's business how I celebrate #Christmas with my family.
He can give me advice, but please don't interfere. ”(Tm) https://t.co/2R1TFZLdZ7
- Friedrich Merz (@_FriedrichMerz) November 21, 2020
He warned urgently against maintaining the corona-related restrictions over Christmas and warned to give the families a perspective now.
In the same breath, however, he also said: "As far as the New Year's Eve is concerned, you can now give an outlook: New Year's Eve parties cannot take place."
Corona summit by Angela Merkel (CDU): tightening of the abstinence regulation in public transport should be off the table
Update from November 21, 2:36 p.m
.: A stricter
distance regulation
in public transport should be off the table: According to a
picture
report, the
transport ministers do
not want to tighten the rules on buses and trains.
The heads of the federal and state departments agreed on this in a telephone conference on Friday.
"Introducing a distance requirement of 1.5 meters in local public transport and on the train is completely
unfamiliar,
" said Baden-Württemberg Minister
Winfried Hermann (Greens) of
the newspaper.
“We need
buses and trains
for business and
school operations
.
With a hygiene concept, mask requirements, controls and fines, we have a system that has proven itself. ”The train timetables should also remain in place despite the sharp decline in user numbers.
Corona partial lockdown in Germany: Lindner contradicts Spahn on "wave breaker strategy"
Update from November 21, 11:47 a.m
.: Many signs are currently pointing to an
extension of the partial lockdown
.
Now CSU regional group leader
Alexander Dobrindt is
calling for
"additional restrictions" in order to bring
the corona infection numbers below the
incidence
of 50
by
Christmas
: "Otherwise, according to current calculations, we will probably not reach
this goal
until
mid-January
."
"The
schools
can, for example, switch to alternating lessons or hybrid lessons," said Dobrindt of the
Passauer Neue Presse (PNP)
.
It could also be helpful to
equip
students with better protective
FFP2 masks
.
Dobrindt emphasized that the November aid would also be extended in the event of a partial lockdown extension. In addition, the CSU is demanding a
home office flat rate
of 600 euros per year for income tax - "regardless of proof of a separate study," said Dobrindt .
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Christian Lindner on Friday in the Bundestag.
© Bernd von Jutrczenka / dpa
Merkel's Corona summit: the deadline for the end of the lockdown will be more specific - Lindner warns: "My fear is ..."
Update from November 21st, 8:13 am
: On the subject of the current
partial lockdown
, the CDU and FDP are not at all in agreement: Federal Health
Minister
Jens Spahn (CDU)
now said “The breakwater works” - FDP boss
Christian Lindner
, however, accused the federal government of lack of
strategy
in front.
"The exponential growth is broken," said Spahn in a
dispute
with Lindner, which was published in the newspaper
Die Welt
.
“We agree that this is not enough.
But it was successful - once more, "added the CDU politician, referring to the corona infection figures.
Will the partial corona lockdown be ended?
"A few weeks later the next one is here"
Germany is the country with one of the
oldest populations in the
world, Spahn emphasized, and warned of
overburdened intensive care units
.
So far, the federal government has achieved
good results
with comparatively
mild measures
.
Linder sees it differently in the newspaper talk: "My fear is: We will not get out of the current November lockdown this year," he said.
“And if we end it, the next one will be here a few weeks later.
That would be a
stop-and-go policy
that causes enormous social and economic damage. "
Lindner criticized that with
better protection of the risk groups
, the closure of restaurants, culture, leisure and sport would have been unnecessary.
It is "possible to also enable public, cultural and economic life, provided that distance and hygiene are maintained".
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Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) rates the “Wellenbrecher” lockdown in November as a success.
© Wolfgang Kumm / dpa
Before Merkel's Corona summit: the date for the end of the lockdown is becoming more and more specific - significant tightening is likely to come
Update from November 20, 6:55 p.m .:
Still high corona numbers, an extension of the partial lockdown is under discussion
(see update from November 20, 3:10 p.m.)
.
Even
Stephan Weil
(SPD), the Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, believes that the lockdown is longer than planned: "As things stand is not to be assumed that you currently to curb the
pandemic
may loosen measures decided," he told the
Handelsblatt
.
The numbers would first have to change sustainably for relief.
The aim of the meeting of the Prime Ministers with
Angela Merkel
(CDU) on November 25th is "reliable regulations" that have to extend beyond Christmas and New Year.
Above all else, Weil calls for
uniform corona measures in Germany
: "Above the value of 50, I am convinced that the same rules should apply everywhere.
This does not apply to every detail, but the line must be as clear and uniform as possible across the borders of the federal states. "
If further closings are ordered, from the point of view of Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister
Reiner Haseloff
(CDU), the state will also have to
pay
compensation
in the coming months
.
Extended restrictions would have to be “financially supported”, he said on Friday in a debate in the Magdeburg state parliament.
The administrative courts had made it clear in several rulings that the state containment measures would otherwise not be appropriate.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of state are again discussing Corona measures.
© Fabrizio Bensch / dpa
Corona summit in Germany: Talking about extension of the “lockdown light”
Update from November 20, 3:10 p.m.:
On Monday, the draft resolutions from the Chancellery caused a lot of country annoyance at the
Corona summit
- before the next round on Wednesday, it is the
prime minister's
turn.
According to a report by the
Business Insider
website
, the proposed proposals have come a long way.
The countries apparently want - in line with
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)
- to
extend
the
"lockdown light"
, but let it end before Christmas: The conversation is said to be
December 20th
as the provisional end.
The round of heads of state is therefore also open to tightening the issue of
contacts
.
The details are apparently not yet fixed here.
According to
Business Insider,
however
, the SPD-led states as well as
Schleswig-Holstein
and
Hesse
reject the upper limit of permanent contact
.
Schools are another neuralgic point.
Merkel's attempt to cut the
school classes in half
is apparently
not suitable for a majority
due to the lack of space
.
To this end, face-to-face teaching for upper levels and vocational schools could be shut down.
In the event of an increase in infections over Christmas, several countries are in favor of
extending the Christmas holidays,
it said.
And the federal states also want to touch a particularly hot topic: The question of
church services over Christmas
.
Restrictions are not initially planned here, writes the portal, but discussions with the religious communities should be sought in order to avoid large-scale church services.
Incidentally, according to the report, all proposals should be finalized between the countries by Monday and
with the Chancellery
on
Tuesday
.
So hanging games on
Wednesday
should be avoided.
The federal government continues to consider the corona situation in Germany to be very serious.
It was only possible to “stop the strong, steep, exponential increase”, said government spokesman Steffen Seibert on Friday.
The new infections had stabilized, "but with far too high numbers," he added.
The number of
deaths
from the
corona virus
is still "very high," warned Seibert.
It is about “200, 250 people every day who lose their lives because of this disease.
This is something we should think about more and which we cannot accept for a minute. "
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Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet during a visit by the Chancellor to North Rhine-Westphalia.
© Federico Gambarini / dpa
Corona summit in Germany: Merkel's demand in the criticism - Laschet puts "one" on it
Update from November 20, 12.15 p.m.: North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU)
wants to
advertise strict contact restrictions
at the next
Corona summit
on Wednesday
- but
remain a
margin below the
proposals of Chancellor Angela Merkel
.
"A family can only meet with two other people from another household," Laschet explained to the
Stuttgarter Zeitung
about
his proposal for the Prime Minister's Conference.
There has recently been harsh criticism of the plans to limit contacts to one other person, especially with regard to children, as
Merkur.de
* reports.
From the
experience at the beginning of the Corona crisis
in spring, it is known that the principle works.
At that time, people's mobility decreased significantly and so did the number of
infections
.
"If we apply this principle consistently, restrictions on gastronomy or culture can be withdrawn in the medium term if the number of infections continues to fall," said the CDU federal vice-president and candidate for the party chairmanship.
Until a vaccine is available, public, social and economic life must be maintained.
"That is why we should fall back on the tried and tested system of general contact restrictions instead of prescribing in minute detail what is allowed and what is not," explained Laschet.
Corona summit in Germany: Merkel statements leaked - lockdown much longer?
Above all, the Chancellor sees one problem
First report: Berlin - The
partial lockdown
balance last Monday with Chancellor
Angela Merkel (CDU)
did not result in any new
corona measures
- only appeals from the Chancellor.
The move was
postponed
to the
federal-state switch
on
November 25th
.
As
Münchner Merkur
learned
exclusively from a
position paper from
the Bavarian State Chancellery *, the
contact restrictions
could be much less strict than was initially heard from the Chancellery.
As
Bild
now wants to know, Merkel made it
clear
in a
Union parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday
that she
expected
proposals from the country leaders "not just for two weeks, but with a
perspective until January
".
At
Christmas,
however, the federal government wants to "give people a certain amount of freedom again," the newspaper quotes the Chancellor in the report (behind the payment barrier).
What should be possible at the turn of the year, however, would be "very, very difficult decisions" on Wednesday.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) warn of early easing in the corona pandemic.
© Michael Kappeler / dpa
One must be careful that “not everything is torn down again on New Year's Eve”, for example because skiing holidays in Austria take place quite normally, Merkel told MPs.
Söder had also recently expressed himself accordingly.
Before the Corona summit with Merkel: details about partial lockdown extension leaked
According to the above-mentioned position paper, which is available to
Münchner Merkur
, Bavaria will
bring
different periods of time for an
extension of the partial lockdown
into play: The shortest until December 15, the longest until
January 15
, alternatively until shortly before Christmas (December 20 ) or shortly after New Year's Eve (January 2nd).
The
image
now writes, citing an unnamed
SPD *
-Landesregierung
that with a validity of Corona measures in January is expected by the end of December or early.
In addition, according to the report, an
expansion of the mask requirement
(primarily in
hotspots
) and an
extension of the winter holidays are
being considered.
According to the Bild report, so-called "contact bans" are even being considered in NRW.
That would mean just as strict contact restrictions as in the spring.
Corona in Germany: Merkel expects new rule proposals from the countries - summit on Wednesday
In view of the high number of
corona infections
, the federal and state governments had agreed on an initially
four-week
partial lockdown from November 2 to November 29.
Restaurants had to close as well as cultural and leisure facilities, and there were strict
contact restrictions
for citizens
.
The federal states have made it clear that they
want to develop
their own
medium-term strategy that should extend into the coming year.
According to reports, the first coordination between the federal states is planned for this weekend.
(
frs with material from the dpa
)
* Merkur.de belongs to the Ippen-Digital editorial network.
List of rubric lists: © Hannibal Hanschke / AFP