Angela Merkel's federal government sees great corona dangers - even if the number of cases is currently falling.
The FDP makes suggestions for how to proceed.
Germany's
corona lockdown
now seems to be having an effect - the number of cases is falling.
Now statements by
Chancellor Angela Merkel *
on how to proceed in the pandemic
are said to have been
leaked
(see update from January 26, 7:37 a.m.)
.
The FDP * names five points that should now be addressed with regard to corona measures
(see update from January 26th, 10.55 a.m.)
.
This
news ticker
is updated regularly.
Update from January 26, 10.55 a.m.:
FDP boss
Christian Lindner
took stock of the first year with
Corona
in the federal press conference
- and, as expected, strongly criticized the federal government.
They have now worked with the instrument of closure for a year.
"A change of strategy has to succeed this spring," Lindner never tires of emphasizing.
"We now have to use innovative measures to enable public life with the virus for a longer period of time."
Lindner names five points that need to be addressed now:
What is now needed is a reliable
step-
by-
step plan
with “if-then rules” that can be used to open regional offices.
Background: The infection rate is different across Germany, so not everything could be decided across the board for Germany.
The FDP demands that the plan must be made binding by mid-February at the latest.
The government must
finally "exhaust
all
innovative possibilities
".
Lindner understands this to mean, for example, increasing the deployment of the German Armed Forces in health authorities as well as old people's and nursing homes, teaching schoolchildren in orphaned cinemas, promoting the digitization of health authorities and further developing the Corona-Warm app.
Lindner is also calling for another
vaccination summit
with important representatives, such as the federal government, states and the pharmaceutical industry, in order to accelerate the logistics and vaccination itself.
Astrazeneca's delivery problems would have to be clarified.
The schedule for when each citizen should be offered vaccinations may have to be adjusted.
Last week, Chancellor Angela Merkel named the date September 21st, but with the restriction that everything was going according to plan.
The
corona aid
would have to be paid out faster.
In addition, the instrument of carrying back losses should be introduced, i.e. the more generous tax offsetting of past profits with current losses.
The
Parliamentary Participation
Corona measures must be strengthened.
Federal
Minister of
Health
Jens Spahn
has also expressed in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin” to relax.
He made it clear that this required some conditions.
The numbers must keep falling.
The health authorities should be able to trace the contacts.
With regard to the new Corona variants, it should be possible to quarantine everyone who is affected.
In addition, this must also be checked.
“Then one will be able to decide whether and how to proceed with the measures under these new aspects.” Like the Chancellor, Spahn spoke out in favor of
opening
schools
and daycare centers
first
.
Meanwhile
,
Greens boss
Annalena Baerbock
spoke out against early
relaxation of
the corona measures.
"I don't think it makes very good sense, given that we were only able to get the numbers down a bit, we are now talking again about what we can loosen up," she said in the SWR.
The situation is still difficult, also because of the new
virus mutations
.
Many hospitals are at their limit.
This is one of the reasons why Baerbock considers opening discussions to be "wrong" at this point in time.
Merkel report on Corona in Germany: "Why can't we ban travel?"
Update from January 26th, 7:37 am
: “The thing slipped
away from
us”: If it's true what the
picture
wants to know from an internal federal-state switch
(see previous update)
,
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)
warned
in the Round with drastic words before hasty
easing
in the
corona crisis
.
This also applies to
travel
and
vacation
.
Because in addition to the quote just mentioned, she is also said to have said:
“What about Germans who travel?
I have asked the question a hundred times: Why can't we
ban
travel
?
Then I always get the answer, referring to former GDR citizens, that we are a free country.
You can introduce a
15-kilometer exclusion zone
, but it's difficult to ban travel around the world. "
“We have
to thin out
the
air traffic
so that you can no longer get anywhere.
I also tried to explain to Horst Seehofer that he is checking it. "
"We need a tougher
border regime
."
According to the report, Merkel emphasized that at Christmas "50,000 flew to the Canaries and the Maldives every day".
Regarding air traffic, she is said to have added: "Then
Lufthansa will
demonstrate, but the damage is so great ..."
Corona lockdown: media report on the new Merkel plan - "We have to be even stricter"
Update January 25, 22:43:
As we continue through the
corona
-
pandemic
?
The numbers seem in
Germany
to
slowly decrease
during the ongoing
lockdown
.
But whether the easing will really come into force in February is currently in the stars.
Now, various statements by Chancellor
Merkel
on the current situation and on how to proceed in the crisis
are said to have
leaked.
The
picture
wants to have statements from the Chancellor during a video switch of the Union parliamentary group leaders from the federal and state levels on Sunday evening.
Accordingly, in view of the high numbers, Merkel describes a loss of control during the crisis and warned: “
We have to be even stricter, otherwise we'll be back where we were in 14 days.
“
She also referred to the
new
mutations
as the“
powder keg
”.
According to the report, the Chancellor also complained that too many Germans were still traveling.
Travel must now be made even more “uncomfortable” (for example through quarantine measures).
In addition, you need a “
tougher border regime
”.
For the time being, Merkel did not want to know anything about the easing of lockdowns.
Relief in mid-February is not certain.
In addition, the Chancellor is said to have said:
"We have to open the other way around than decided: first daycare centers and schools, then shops, then restaurants".
+
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) leaves a press conference on the current situation in the house of the Federal Press Conference.
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Corona lockdown: Merkel warns of a "dark cloud" - but now Söders Bayern is calling for openings
First report from January 25, 12:52 p.m.:
Berlin / Munich - The corona numbers in Germany are falling - the worries remain great: The
virus mutations
from Great Britain, South Africa or Brazil are causing the federal government a headache.
Chancellor Angela Merkel *
and her right-hand man
Helge Braun
(both CDU) therefore want to continue to focus on strict containment.
Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert
spoke of the “dark cloud of very serious danger”
on Monday with a view to the mutants.
But it is possible that the
debate about the lockdown
in the Federal Republic will run away from
them in the coming days
.
In
Bavaria
in particular, there are
several demands for a clear perspective on the exit.
The pressure is growing especially when it comes to schools.
Even
doctors
have needs of the population out - and some virologists stress for weeks persistently
alternatives to shutdown
.
Meanwhile, approval for the measures in the country is falling.
Corona lockdown in Germany: Braun warns urgently of mutations - but does not believe in lasting success himself
Braun made the government's attitude
clear
on Sunday evening in the ARD flagship talk
"Anne Will
" *.
“We are currently seeing that we are already
dealing
with the
mutant
in several hospitals
.
That means, that has arrived in our country, and that is why at some point, as in other countries, she will take the lead and cause problems, ”said the head of the Chancellery.
"I'm very sure of that," he added when asked.
It is now all the more important
to reduce
the number of
infections
"very much" and thus remove the basis for further spread of the mutation, added Braun.
"We want to keep it out of the country for as long as possible and keep it very low where it is already." However, the CDU politician also immediately admits: "You won't be able to do that in the long run."
Merkel's corona lockdown: There is rumbling in Söders Bayern - the first CSU politicians are also calling for a rethink
Markus Söders Bayern
has so far been considered a pioneer in the field of tough corona regulations
.
But the CSU boss now has to take note of demands in the direction of a lockdown end.
On the one hand from the coalition partner
Free Voters
- but remarkably also from their own ranks.
Vice Prime Minister Hubert Aiwanger
has been pushing for openings for a long time.
He added more on Monday.
The Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs told the
Passauer Neue Presse
that after a quarter of a year of lockdown it would be time "for us to slowly offer people and the economy positive prospects again".
Aiwanger called for
easing
for elementary schools from mid-February, when the
seven-day incidence
in their district is below 200.
For
trade and hotels there
could be the easing at an incidence of around 100.
Hairdressers and service providers
should be able to open “by mid-February at the latest”.
The
CSU member of the Bundestag Georg Nüßlein
had already made a
very similar
statement.
He noticed "that the mood is changing," said Nüßlein of the
Augsburger Allgemeine
on Saturday.
If the situation does not deteriorate drastically again in the coming weeks, for example due to a massive spread of mutated viruses, "then by mid-February at the latest we will have to take a different path than the previous one".
In addition, he openly doubted Merkel's incidence target.
CSU regional group leader Alexander Dobrindt
already countered on Sunday evening.
Germany in corona lockdown: discontent among parts of the virologists is growing - opposition intensifies tone
With his assessment, however, Nüßlein was in line with some experts.
The
virologist Klaus Stöhr
had recently * as well as his colleague
Alexander Kekulé questioned
the incidence lines of the federal government.
Kekulé spoke of a "concrete slab lockdown" * - and even criticized the principle *.
It is important "that politics offers the citizens perspectives," said
medical president Klaus Reinhardt
recently
.
Among other things, he referred to the “psychosocial stress” of the population in lockdown.
Meanwhile, the opposition is tightening the tone - albeit in a different context.
"This is a government failure - and even with a certain resolution," said
FDP leader Christian Lindner
on Sunday evening in a talk on the
picture
.
He referred to long-rejected demands for an FFP2 mask requirement and a new test strategy.
The Bavarian
Greens MP Dieter Janecek
reprimanded with a view to debates about school closings until Easter that the CSU had "lost all measure".
Corona lockdown: Germany in a dilemma?
First Prime Minister is thinking about openings - Lauterbach warns
Incidentally,
Michael Kretschmer
(CDU), a prime minister, has already
spoken out in
favor of
a concrete
opening perspective
after February 14
.
The suggestion from Saxony: Schools and kindergartens should reopen in mid-February, Kretschmer told the
world
.
The same applies to hairdressers, retailers and gastronomy could follow in March or after Easter: However, as a security measure: "If it is responsible."
However,
SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach
doubts that it will be
.
"We will need a very hard and very well-functioning lockdown, because the new variants in particular are of a completely different caliber," he said in the
picture group
.
(
fn with dpa and AFP
) *
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