Corona lockdown in Lower Saxony - Weil calls for denouncing fellow citizens

Strict rules apply in the corona crisis.

But not all citizens adhere to it.

Lower Saxony's Prime Minister is now making headlines with a controversial proposal.

• Corona in Lower Saxony:

  The number of infections continues to rise sharply.

• A "lockdown light" to contain the

  coronavirus

  *

  has also been in effect in Lower Saxony since Monday

  .

• Prime Minister

  Stephan Weil

  appeals

  to adhere

  to

  Corona rules

  - and even calls for

  denunciation

  .

Hanover - Since Monday,

strict rules

have been in place in

contain

the spread of the

virus.

Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD)

apparently also relies on help from the population to

control the

.

He has called for violations of the corona measures to be reported to the authorities and thus calls for the denunciation of fellow citizens.

“Nobody likes to do that.

And then the thought quickly arises, "Man, am I a snitch or even a denunciator?", But to be honest: At the moment there is a lot going on, "said Weil on the NDR about his appeal that citizens in

violate

should report

against the

.

In the NDR broadcast, he answered questions from listeners and viewers.

Prime Minister Stephan Weil is a guest at NDR 1 Niedersachsen this evening at 6 p.m. and answers live questions about the current Corona situation and at 7.30 p.m. he is a guest at Hallo Niedersachsen.

https://t.co/X5JbBBtK4w@NDRnds @MpStephanWeil

- Lower Saxony state government (@NdsLandesReg) November 2, 2020

Lower Saxony: Prime Minister Weil calls for corona violations to be reported

Help from the population could be used in the

, said Stephan Weil.

"Now we are dealing with infection protection, and it is simply right if we all also participate." Therefore, Weil apparently also sees the blackening of citizens who do not adhere to the rules as justified.

Lower Saxony's Prime Minister

appealed to all citizens

to adhere

to the

and to significantly reduce contacts for a month.

“If we can do that, then we will see that clearly in the number of

.

And then we go into December, then we go into the run-up to Christmas simply at a completely different level of infection and then we are not in such an acute crisis, "Weil said in part -

.

Strict corona rules

have been in effect in

since Monday

*.

Corona in Lower Saxony: For the time being, no schedule for easing the partial lockdown

Stephan Weil did not want to provide any information on

a possible relaxation of the

in

.

"If we see, in two weeks for example, but now it is starting to move in the right direction, then we will probably have such a discussion," said Weil.

With the four-week partial lockdown, the skyrocketing

numbers

in Lower Saxony are to be flattened again.

Researchers from Göttingen have made a gloomy forecast about the number of corona deaths in the next few weeks.

"In the situation we are in now, where things are still going up steeply from day to day, it would be really presumptuous to lead the other discussion," said Stephan Weil about a possible relaxation of the

in

.

(sne with dpa)