Merkel's “lockdown light” starts: 600,000 jobs gone, end open? Söder clarifies

Stricter corona rules will apply in Germany from Monday.

There are now figures on the costs.

Markus Söder is clear about “Anne Will”.

Berlin / Munich - The

begins in Germany on Monday

- only the weekend slowed the rapid growth in the number of cases.

But the selection of the measures taken by the

(CDU) continues to cause debate.

On Sunday (November 1), a drastic assessment by the

(IW)

fueled

the dispute.

has meanwhile defended the stricter measures *.

Corona: 19.3 billion euros?

Experts expect an expensive lockdown in Germany

Because the economic experts expect

.

"The lockdown light that we have now until the end of November is expected to reduce GDP by one percentage point," said

of

.

His institute reckons 591,000 people will lose their jobs.

According to Hüther, there will be another 15,000 people next year - "provided the lockdown ends as announced."

The

(DIW) sees costs of 19.3 billion euros in the economy as a result of the measures in November, as reported by

.

Accordingly,

would be

hit the hardest

with

.

For the areas of

, the researchers estimated the

, as the newspaper further reported.

The restrictions cost the trade 1.3 billion euros, for German industry it was 5.2 billion euros.

A large part of the remaining amount goes to corporate service providers, logistics companies and cinema operators.

Lockdown light in Germany: Brinkhaus does not want to give any "guarantees" - Söder sees no alternative

Whether the restrictions will be history in November seems open: "We are now talking about the next four weeks," said

on Sunday in the

.

“After that we have to look further.

Nobody can give guarantees, ”he emphasized.

It is now crucial that the

broken.

“Nobody can give guarantees.” - Union parliamentary group leader @rbrinkhaus answers in the #Report from Berlin evasively to the question from @TinaHassel whether the corona restrictions will remain limited to November.

The whole interview at 6:05 p.m. in @DasErste.

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- Report from Berlin (@ARD_BaB) November 1, 2020

Söder

sees no alternative to the measures.

"The alternative would be to let it go," said the CSU boss on Sunday evening in the

.

But that would mean an

.

The consequence is that the hospitals are full and, in the end, high death rates.

"There is no other concept in the whole world than reducing contacts in order to react to Corona," said Söder.

"If there was a better, easier one, we would use it immediately." In addition, the current

and in other European countries.

Merkel's new measures: Prime ministers defend strict corona rules

Berlin's Governing Mayor Michael Müller

(SPD) also defended the measures vigorously.

“All around us in all of Europe, the lockdown has already been decided or is being announced,” said Müller on Sunday in a government statement in front of the Berlin House of Representatives.

It is about "acting now, not sometime when it is too late".

In view of the massive increase in the number of

Müller also campaigned

for understanding of the impending cuts in parts of public life, on which the federal government and the Conference of Prime Ministers (MPK) agreed last Wednesday.

Müller has been chairman of the MPK since the beginning of October.

Also

(CDU) warned that the situation was "very serious".

"We absolutely have to prevent an emergency in the health care system," said Haseloff on Sunday evening, according to the previously published speech in a televised address on the

.

"I can understand the displeasure of many people," added the CDU politician.

"But the worsening corona situation leaves us no other choice."

Corona in Germany: Bad testimony for VAT reduction - advantages only for Amazon and Co.?

Another bad news:

According to the Nuremberg Society for Consumer Research (GfK), the

due to the

has so far hardly given any economic impetus.

"So far, the effects of the VAT reduction have been less pronounced," said

the

.

That will only change towards the end of the year.

From Bürkl's point of view, the subdued buying mood of Germans primarily affects stationary retail because consumers are unsettled due to the increasing number of infections and many tend to avoid

.

In addition, “shopping with a mask is only fun to a limited extent”.

The measures met with widespread approval among the population.

According to a

the Kantar opinion research institute for

, 59 percent consider the

to be just right.

28 percent think they are exaggerated, twelve percent would like even stricter rules, one percent answered “don't know”.

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