The federal government and the German Länder could agree on a massive limitation of contacts throughout the territory of the federal republic starting from November 2 and not from November 4 as in the previous hypothesis to enhance the containment of the coronavirus pandemic.
This was announced by the Dpa from sources close to the meeting currently underway between Chancellor Angela Merkel and the ministers-presidents of the 16 Land.
The German government intends to compensate for the losses in turnover caused by the temporary closure of the companies affected by the lockdown, with 7-10 billion, according to Bild.
This is one of the measures currently under discussion in the meeting between Chancellor Angela Merkel, the relevant ministers and the governors of the 16 German Laender.
At the meeting, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz suggested that smaller companies be compensated for up to 75% of their turnover compared to the same period of the previous year, while larger companies up to 70 percent.
According to Scholz, this is a total cost of between 7 and 10 billion.
The number of new infections from Covid in Germany, in the 24 hours, with 14,964 cases, touches a new record, after the one marked last Saturday when 14,714 infections were detected.
Angela Merkel's country is waiting with bated breath for a decisive summit between the Chancellor and the Laender Presidential Ministers, expected in the early afternoon today, when new restrictive measures will be decided to curb the Covid race.
There is talk of a "lockdown light", which would see schools and kindergartens open, sacrificing instead sectors such as gastronomy, sport and leisure
The first European country to return to lockdown could be France, where more than 50,000 new cases of Covid-19 are now traveling a day.
The French government, after the failure of the curfew decreed two weeks ago, plans a national confinement for a month starting at midnight on Thursday, according to reports from BFM-TV on the eve of a speech to the nation by President Emmanuel Macron .
The issuer has specified that the lockdown will be more flexible than that of last spring.
The official announcement should arrive at 8pm.
Closures are also planned in Spain, but for the moment only at the regional level.
The state of emergency launched by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez a few days ago gave the regions the freedom to close their borders if necessary.
It seems that Andalusia, Madrid and Castilla y León are thinking about this, who have already asked their technical-scientific committees for an opinion in view of the All Saints' Bridge.
The president of Andalusia, Juan Manuel Moreno, admitted in an interview with Cadena Cope that he was "very pessimistic about the possibility of keeping the region open this weekend".
"The number of hospitalized and ICUs makes us think that it is not the right time to authorize flows of people entering and leaving the region," he said.
