Corona: crisis summit adopts massive restrictions from Monday

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Chancellor Merkel (on Wednesday morning before the cabinet meeting)

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According to consistent reports, the federal government and the states agreed on massive restrictions in their corona crisis discussion in view of the significantly increased number of infections, which should come into force across Germany next Monday.

The new rules should initially apply until the end of November.

If they do, a Christmas party may be possible without major restrictions - at least that is the hope of the Chancellor and the Prime Minister.

According to the dpa news agency, the following resolutions exist:

• Contacts:

  Only members of two households are allowed to meet in public - a maximum of ten people.

• Catering establishments

  are to close from November 2nd for the rest of the month.

  This does not apply to the delivery and collection of food for consumption at home; canteens should be allowed to remain open.

• Services:

  Cosmetic studios, massage practices and tattoo studios should be closed because the minimum distance cannot be maintained here.

  Medically necessary treatments, for example by a physiotherapist, are still possible.

  Hairdressing salons also remain open.

• Supermarkets:

  The retail trade remains open - but there are regulations as to how many customers can be in the store at the same time.

• Schools and kindergartens

  should remain open.

• Professional sports

  , including the Bundesliga, should only take place in November without spectators.

• The

  amateur sport mode

  is set, so clubs may no longer work.

  Individual sports, such as jogging alone, should continue to be allowed.

  Fitness studios, swimming pools and fun pools will be closed.

• Theaters, operas or concert halls:

  The federal and state governments want to largely ban events that serve entertainment and leisure activities across Germany from next week until the end of November.

The background to the planned measures is the sharp increase in the number of new infections detected every day.

According to the Robert Koch Institute, the health authorities reported 14,964 new corona infections within one day on Wednesday morning.

According to information from SPIEGEL, Merkel calculated at the video conference that if there was no reduction in contacts, there would be 28,000 infections per day within a week.

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