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Angela Merkel wants to face pressing questions on television on Tuesday evening.
On Tuesday at 8:15 p.m. Angela Merkel * appears in the program “Color confess” on ARD.
She will answer questions about vaccination against Corona, but maybe also about Corona lockdown *.
Meanwhile, a federal state is presenting a Corona step-by-step plan for the near future.
Berlin - An interview with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) at prime time on ARD: This is an exceptional situation.
But on Tuesday evening the time has come in a 15-minute special broadcast.
Merkel will answer urgent Corona questions at 8.15 p.m. on the program “Show your colors”.
The main topic will certainly be vaccination - especially after the vaccination summit on Monday with the federal states, EU representatives and vaccine manufacturers.
A national vaccination plan is to be drawn up in the coming week to make corona vaccinations more reliable.
What exactly can be imagined by this has so far remained rather vague.
In the future, assumptions and various scenarios are to be modeled in order to be able to better estimate quantities of the vaccine in advance.
Merkel in the ARD: Opposition and Söder Minister disappointed with vaccination summit
The fact is: The vaccine will remain scarce in the first quarter of 2021, but the vaccination promise continues to apply.
Everyone in Germany should have been offered a vaccination by September 21st - provided there are no further delivery bottlenecks or the like.
In Merkel's words after the vaccination summit: “I think we were able to bring in a bit of realism today.
Because miracles won't happen now. "
Such rather sober words and assessments can also be expected in the evening in the interview.
But that was no longer enough for many.
In general, there was a lot of criticism after the summit *.
Even if Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) * tried previously to lower expectations.
But Bavaria's Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) *, for example, still lacks perspective and predictability.
"We need a lot of vaccine that can be planned and is available," emphasized Holetschek in the inforadio Berlin Brandenburg.
“We have not yet achieved as much as I would have liked to have imagined.” However, precise planning of the availability of vaccines is not possible from the manufacturer's point of view either.
That became clear at the vaccination summit, it was said in retrospect to journalists.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU, M), sits between Michael Müller (SPD, l), Governing Mayor of Berlin, and Markus Söder (r), Prime Minister of Bavaria and Chairman of the CSU, at a press conference after the vaccination summit.
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Merkel in the ARD interview: New Corona vaccination plan required
The leader of the left-wing parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Amira Mohamed Ali, said: "I expect the federal government to stop talking about the bush and present a clear plan on how to end this vaccination chaos." Also FDP * boss Christian Lindner described the results as disappointing and renewed his call for a "Tempo bonus" in order to expand capacities in the pharmaceutical industry.
Greens boss Robert Habeck criticized on Tuesday in the ARD “Morgenmagazin” that a vaccination summit should actually explain a strategy.
Instead, only a strategy was announced.
"And I don't think that's satisfactory."
Representatives of the federal states were also dissatisfied.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) * spoke of a mixed result of the talks.
"For me, the EU commissioners could not convincingly explain why no more appointments were made, as is the case in other countries." Markus Söder is also said to have annoyed the two EU commissioners *.
Corona lockdown in Germany: does Angela Merkel comment on future measures?
Another point of discussion that Chancellor Merkel may address in the evening is how to proceed with the corona measures and the lockdown.
It is now clear: On February 10th, the Prime Minister and the Chancellor will meet again for a switching conference to assess the current situation.
So far, the lockdown is until February 14th.
Due to the circulating corona mutations *, however, far-reaching opening decisions are not to be expected.
Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) * is already dampening hopes, for example.
There could only be openings if the incidence value falls below 50, said the head of government, according to dpa.
“If we don't get near them, it will more likely lead to extensions.” The Thuringian state government has already extended the applicable lockdown rules by five days.
Corona lockdown: step-by-step plan from Lower Saxony presented - strategy for Merkel?
Instead of massive openings, step-by-step plans come to the fore.
What happens with which incidence values *, which corona numbers still have to be included in order to gain an overview of the dynamics of the infection process.
A proposal for this is now coming from Lower Saxony.
The draft discussion includes a kind of extended traffic light system over six levels from a low level of infection with an incidence of 10 in level one to an escalating infection level of an incidence of 200 or an R-factor of over 1.2.
The detailed plan is available on the website of the State Chancellery of Lower Saxony.
“This is not a relaxation plan, but a plan of how it can be when it gets better and when it gets worse,” said Prime Minister Stephan Weil in a press conference. In the future, action must be taken “earlier and more vigorously” if the infection rate increases again. The incidence value of 35 set in 2020, from which increased caution is required, is too high. In the future, you will have to draw specific consequences from 25, said Weil.
(cibo / dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen digital network.
