Before Corona summit: Merkel statements leaked - lockdown much longer? Chancellery fears ski holidays

On November 25, the federal and state governments will discuss the further timetable for the corona pandemic - and the time frames for the measures.

Possible dates are already seeping through.

• Chancellor

  Angela Merkel (CDU)

  expects

  a strategy for the winter

  from the

  Corona summit

  on November 25th.

• The

  Münchner Merkur

  was to already position paper of the Bavarian state government under

  Markus Söder (CSU)

  ago.

• Also a new media report suggests that the

  partial lockdown

  well above the November also

  extended

  will.

Berlin - The

balance last Monday with Chancellor

did not result in any new

- only appeals from the Chancellor.

The move was

postponed

to the

on

.

As

learned

exclusively from a

the Bavarian State Chancellery *, the

could be much less strict than was initially heard from the Chancellery.

As

now wants to know, Merkel made it

clear

in a

that she

expected

proposals from the country leaders "not just for two weeks, but with a

".

At

however, the federal government wants to "give people a certain amount of freedom again," the newspaper quotes the Chancellor in the report (behind the payment barrier).

What should be possible at the turn of the year, however, would be "very, very difficult decisions" on Wednesday.

You have to be careful that "not everything is torn down again on New Year's Eve", for example because the skiing holiday in Austria takes place quite normally, Merkel told MPs.

Söder had also recently expressed himself accordingly.

Before the Corona summit with Merkel: details about partial lockdown extension leaked

According to the above-mentioned position paper, which is available to

, Bavaria will

bring

different periods of time for an

into play: The shortest until December 15, the longest until

, alternatively until shortly before Christmas (December 20 ) or shortly after New Year's Eve (January 2nd).

The

now writes, citing an unspecified

, that the corona measures are expected to be valid until the end of December or the beginning of January.

In addition, according to the report, an

(primarily in

) and an

being considered.

According to the Bild report, so-called “contact bans” are even being considered in NRW.

That would mean just as strict contact restrictions as in the spring.

Merkel expects new rule proposals from the federal states - summit on Wednesday

In view of the high number of

, the federal and state governments had agreed on an initially

partial lockdown from November 2 to November 29.

Restaurants had to close as well as cultural and leisure facilities, and there were strict

for citizens

.

The federal states have made it clear that they

want to develop

medium-term strategy that should extend into the coming year.

According to reports, the first coordination between the federal states is planned for this weekend.

(frs with material from dpa)