After the video conference of the Prime Minister and Chancellor Angela Merkel, the new Corona requirements were announced in a press conference.
They should apply in just a few days.
Berlin - The federal and state governments have agreed on this, with strict
contact restrictions
and certain
closings
in the leisure
sector
to break
the
second wave of corona infections
.
The aim is
to prevent
the
epidemic
from
spreading uncontrollably
.
Chancellor Angela Merkel
and the
prime ministers of
the federal states agreed on Wednesday (October 28) at their video conference that the measures should apply from next Monday (November 2) and last until the end of November, this was announced in a press conference .
The
risk of
an
infection
situation that is
no longer manageable is
growing day by day, as the number of
infections * is
currently almost doubling every week.
Coronavirus: Contact restrictions and closings - with certain exceptions
The federal and state governments therefore
only
want to
allow members of their own household and another household with a maximum of ten people to
stay in
public
.
This is binding, violations of these
contact restrictions
would be
sanctioned
by the
regulatory authorities
.
Catering establishments are also expected to
close
from November 2nd for the rest of the month
.
The delivery and collection of food for consumption at home should be excluded from this.
Canteens should be allowed to stay open.
Entertainment events and leisure facilities should be prohibited or closed nationwide.
Cinemas, theaters as well as opera and concert halls are also due to close by the end of November.
The regulation also applies to leisure and amateur sports; individual sports are to be excluded.
Cosmetic studios and massage practices should also close.
On the other hand,
schools
and
kindergartens
should
remain reliably open in November.
The same applies to wholesale and retail.
However, it must be ensured that there is no more than one customer per ten square meters in the shops.
Tourist accommodation offers in Germany are prohibited in November.
These should only be made for necessary purposes such as mandatory business trips.
Companies are urged to make home work possible - wherever this is feasible.
In addition, there will be economic aid again for November.
Companies with up to 50 employees can have up to 75 percent of sales from November 2019 reimbursed.
Details are to be announced later this week.
Coronavirus: health emergency declared - but what does that mean?
The
health authorities
reported, according to the
Robert Koch Institute
(RKI) by Wednesday morning 14964 Corona
infections *
within a day - almost twice as many as last Wednesday.
The absolute numbers are only partially comparable with those from spring, since significantly more tests are now being carried out and more infections are being discovered as a result.
In any case, there has recently been a significant increase in
new infections
.
Hesse's Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) spoke of a "national
health emergency
".
It is not true that people cannot currently be looked after, he said on Wednesday in Wiesbaden.
"But if we don't act, we will come to a point where we can no longer take care of them."
According to dpa information, the federal and state governments agreed at their conference to declare a “health
emergency
” for
Germany
.
At first it remained open what that means exactly.
The total number of
Corona *
cases
in
Germany
was
464,239
on Wednesday morning, the number of
deaths was
10,183
(85 more than the previous day).
The RKI estimates that around 332,800 people have now recovered.
The number of
infections
per 100,000 inhabitants (the
incidence number
) was 93.6 nationwide in the past seven days.
The week before (October 21), the RKI had reported an incidence * of 51.5 cases.
According to the
RKI
, around 70 percent of the districts have an incidence of over 50. The number of reproductions, or R value for short, was
1.17
in Germany according to the
RKI
management report on Tuesday (previous day: 1.37).
This means that 10 infected people infect almost 12 other people.
(dpa)
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