Special meeting in Bavaria: Söder calls for stricter corona rules

The partial corona lockdown in Germany will be extended until January 10th.

Now calls for tightening of measures are loud. 

• The federal and state governments decide to extend the partial lockdown until January 10th.

• The measures due to the corona virus are not only approved.

• Bavaria, especially Söder,

  the measures do not go far enough ..

Update from Sunday, December 6th, 2020, 9:00 a.m.:

In view of the hardly falling number of

, in Bavaria, as in individual other countries, tightening of the applicable rules is

.

Prime Minister

(CSU) has called his cabinet together for a special meeting this Sunday afternoon.

According to the State Chancellery, the Council of Ministers wants to advise on “further measures” via video link.

"It now needs a consistent approach," Söder told the press.

“We can

not accept

the

in Germany.

The infection rates are still too high.

It is better to act until Christmas than a permanent stop-and-go for the population .. "

Virologist Alexander Kekulé on corona lockdown: "Politics seems to be poking in the fog"

Berlin - Last Wednesday (December 2nd, 2020) the

jointly

decided to

extend the

.

Specifically, restaurants, museums, theaters and leisure facilities must remain closed until January 10th.

"In principle, the situation remains as it is now, with the exception of course the Christmas regulations, which were made extra," said Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) after consultations with the Prime Ministers of the federal states.

However, on January 4, it was already being discussed how

things would continue

depending on the

.

Corona lockdown until January 10th: Söder speaks of tightening

It is already clear that the federal states still do not agree on the decided regulations.

Shortly after the announcement, Bavaria's Prime Minister

rushed ahead and

indicated that

the

tightened at the

beginning of January: "The question is whether we can keep the country in this kind of half-sleep the whole time or whether we don't have to think about it at some point. to go deeper in some places very clearly and consistently, ”said the CSU chairman.

You also have to think about "becoming more consistent before Christmas" and consider how the number of new corona infections could be reduced.

Lothar Wieler, president of the

, notes currently that Germany, the

currently "not with all the verve" down get.

The restrictions that have been in force since the beginning of November are much milder than in spring, when a tougher implementation of the

had shown an effect: At the end of March, the number of new infections every day was around 4,000. Four weeks later, the RKI reported a good 2,000 new cases per day Day, at the beginning of May around 1000. It must be added that significantly fewer tests were carried out in the spring and the numbers cannot be compared with the current ones.

Saxony has meanwhile taken its own tightened

- the state has the nationwide highest value with an incidence of 261.5.

Since December 1st, houses and apartments can only be left there “for valid reasons”, for example to go to work or to the doctor.

Wearing a mask in the open air is now compulsory if people are in public areas such as pedestrian zones or parking lots.

Almost the entire Free State is affected by the restrictions - with the exception of the large cities of

.

Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) said that the virus was underestimated.

Schwesig may not support the extension of the lockdown

In

on the other hand, they

may not

want to extend the

.

In this regard, Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) said in Schwerin: "You can already see that the measures are dampening the second wave, but it is not enough".

On site, however, you will decide whether an extension will be carried according to your own numbers.

Schwesig said a decision had been postponed until December 15.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, along with

currently one of the two countries that have a low

of less than 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants.

Corona: Virologist does not consider extending the partial lockdown to be useful

Virologist Alexander Kekulé has

on

whether the extension of the

makes sense at all at this point in time.

In his opinion, measures against the

the strongest

effect

if they were just decided, said Kekulé in the MDR-Aktuell podcast.

The current extension, which came as a surprise to him, makes little sense, as it would maintain the same measures, which would "usually" not bring about a stronger brake.

There were two options for him: either waiting until shortly after New Year's Eve or readjusting immediately.

"Then you have to take more stringent measures now and not wait until January 11," he said.

It seems to him that politics is poking through the fog.

Michael #Kretschmer is really serious & wants to sell people for stupid things.

With his "we underestimated the virus", he wanted to express: I checked it out completely, I'd rather #drawal afterwards, loosened up without end.

Result, unfortunately known 🤷‍♂️ #Sachsen https://t.co/bjCfpsPazz

- Ali Kaan Sevinc (@AliKaanSevinc) December 4, 2020

Finally,

gives little hope that the situation will normalize soon: “We have to get through the winter without being able to rely on the fact that we already have a large amount of vaccine available.” In the first quarter of the year one should not yet have “excessive hopes about the quantities of the vaccine ”.

She does not expect significantly more vaccines until the second and especially the third quarter.

The

is still long.

(Katja Thorwarth with dpa / AFP)

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