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Before the Corona summit: Schwesig drives to the parade - and Brinkhaus ponders the public transport shutdown

2021-01-16T14:11:06.514Z


The Union parliamentary group leader calls for a “real” lockdown - but before the federal-state consultations, a major point of contention with the SPD is evidently emerging.


The Union parliamentary group leader calls for a “real” lockdown - but before the federal-state consultations, a major point of contention with the SPD is evidently emerging.

  • The federal-state consultations with

    Chancellor Merkel

    * (CDU *) have

    been brought forward to

    January 19

    .

  • The reason is the continued high number of

    corona cases *

    and a threatening

    virus mutation

    *.

  • According to a report,

    SPD

    * Prime Ministers are bothered by two details in advance.

Berlin - Before the next

Corona summit

with Chancellor

Angela Merkel (CDU),

there is apparently displeasure among some country leaders.

“The mutation worries us all very much.

We need

a consultation with the scientists

on Monday

.

On this basis, we have to make further decisions on Tuesday, "said Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister

Manuela Schwesig (SPD) of

the

picture

- and according to the article means those experts who advise Merkel.

Bild

wants to know: "Some SPD federal states are demanding more figures and data on the current Corona situation in order to make such a far-reaching decision."

Lockdown tightening in Germany?

"Better to be right now" (Brinkhaus)

The line of argument: The

RKI *

figures are currently less meaningful because of the holidays - and there is no information about the spread and danger of the corona mutations from Great Britain and South Africa *.

+

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) wants to consult scientists before the Corona summit.

© Jens Büttner / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa

Sounds like it could crunch in the round next Tuesday.

For, for example, Union

parliamentary group leader Ralph Brinkhaus (CDU) has

now pleaded for a comprehensive expansion of the corona restrictions.

"Better to be right now - instead of an endless loop into the summer,"

the

Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung (NOZ)

quotes him

in its Saturday edition.

"In particular, the high infection rate of the new mutation worries us very much."

Before the Merkel-Corona summit: Brinkhaus brings public transport shutdown into play

And in the

WDR show

“Current Hour”, Brinkhaus replied on Friday to the question of whether a

night-time exit

restriction should

be discussed

during the deliberations

: “Yes, everything has to be put on the table.” He also said on RTL / ntv: “We have to talk to industry and business again to

see

whether all the capacities for mobile work in the

home office

are being used.

We will also have to look again to see whether

local transport is

not switched off or at least organized in such a way that there are not so many people in a bus or in a wagon. "

In view of the again partly different state regulations after the last federal-state consultation on January 5th, Brinkhaus added in the

NOZ

: “And I expect that the things that are decided at the Prime Minister

's Conference

in Berlin will be one at home in the state capitals implemented and consistently followed up. ”(dpa / AFP / frs)

* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editorial network.

List of rubric lists: © Jens Büttner / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa

Source: merkur

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