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Before Merkel's Corona summit: the deadline for the end of the lockdown is becoming more and more specific - significant tightening is likely to come

2020-11-21T18:39:03.716Z


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.


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 *)

    before.

  • Also a new media report suggests that the

    partial lockdown

    * well above the November also

    extended

    will.

Update from November 20, 3:10 p.m.:

On Monday, the draft resolutions from the Chancellery caused a lot of country annoyance at the

Corona summit

- before the next round on Wednesday, it is the

prime minister's

turn.

According to a report by the

Business Insider

website

, the proposed proposals have come a long way.

The countries apparently want - in line with

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)

- to

extend

the

"lockdown light"

, but let it end before Christmas: The conversation is said to be

December 20th

as the provisional end.

The round of heads of state is therefore also open to tightening the issue of

contacts

.

The details are apparently not yet fixed here.

According to

Business Insider,

however

, the SPD-led states as well as

Schleswig-Holstein

and

Hesse

reject the upper limit of permanent contact

.

Schools are another neuralgic point.

Merkel's attempt

to halve

the

school classes

, however, is evidently

no majority

due to the lack of space

.

To this end, face-to-face teaching for high school and vocational schools could be shut down.

In the event of an increase in infections over Christmas, several countries are in favor of

extending the Christmas holidays,

it said.

And the federal states also want to touch a particularly hot topic now: the question of

church services over Christmas

.

Restrictions are not initially provided, writes the portal, but discussions with the religious communities should be sought in order to avoid large-scale church services.

Incidentally, according to the report, all proposals should be finalized between the countries by Monday and

with the Chancellery

on

Tuesday

.

This is to avoid hanging games on

Wednesday

.

The federal government continues to consider the corona situation in Germany to be very serious.

It was only possible to “stop the strong, steep, exponential increase”, said government spokesman Steffen Seibert on Friday.

The new infections had stabilized, "but with far too high numbers," he added.

The number of

deaths

from the

corona virus

is still "very high," warned Seibert.

It is about “200, 250 people every day who lose their lives because of this disease.

This is something we should think about more and which we cannot accept for a minute. "

Corona summit in Germany: Merkel's demand in the criticism - Laschet puts "one" on it

Update from November 20, 12.15 p.m.: North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU)

wants to

advertise for strict contact restrictions

at the next

Corona summit

on Wednesday

- but

stay

just below the

suggestions of Chancellor Angela Merkel

.

"A family can only meet with two other people from another household," Laschet explained to the

Stuttgarter Zeitung

about

his proposal for the Prime Minister's Conference.

There has recently been harsh criticism of the plans to limit contacts to one more person, especially with regard to children, as

Merkur.de

* reports.

From the

experience at the beginning of the Corona crisis

in spring, it is known that the principle works.

At that time, people's mobility decreased significantly, and so did the

rate of infection

.

"If we apply this principle consistently, restrictions on gastronomy or culture can be withdrawn in the medium term if the number of infections continues to fall," said the CDU federal vice-president and candidate for the party chairmanship.

Until a vaccine is available, public, social and economic life must be maintained.

"That is why we should fall back on the tried and tested system of general contact restrictions instead of prescribing in minute detail what can and cannot take place," explained Laschet.

Corona summit in Germany: Merkel statements leaked - lockdown much longer?

Above all, the Chancellor sees one problem

First report: Berlin - The

partial lockdown

balance last Monday with Chancellor

Angela Merkel (CDU)

did not result in any new

corona measures

- only appeals from the Chancellor.

The move was

postponed

to the

federal-state switch

on

November 25th

.

As

Münchner Merkur

learned

exclusively from a

position paper from

the Bavarian State Chancellery *, the

contact restrictions

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

As

Bild

now wants to know, Merkel made it

clear

in a

Union parliamentary group meeting on Tuesday

that she

expected

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

perspective until January

".

At

Christmas,

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.

+

Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) are warning of early easing of the corona pandemic.

© Michael Kappeler / dpa

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

Münchner Merkur

, Bavaria will

bring

different periods of time for an

extension of the partial lockdown

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

January 15

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

The

image

now writes, citing an unnamed

SPD *

-Landesregierung

that with a validity of Corona measures in January is expected by the end of December or early.

In addition, according to the report, an

expansion of the mask requirement

(primarily in

hotspots

) and an

extension of the winter holidays are

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.

Corona in Germany: Merkel expects new rule proposals from the countries - summit on Wednesday

In view of the high number of

corona infections

, the federal and state governments had agreed on an initially

four-week

partial lockdown from November 2 to November 29.

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

contact restrictions

for citizens

.

The federal states have made it clear that they

want to develop

their own

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 the dpa

)

* Merkur.de belongs to the Ippen-Digital editorial network.

List of rubric lists: © Fabrizio Bensch / dpa

Source: merkur

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