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Before Corona summit: tightening plan already clear? - That is what Merkel's group should decide for Christmas

2020-11-24T16:57:37.885Z


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.


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 .

+

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

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