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Manuela Schwesig (SPD), the Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
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In addition to hairdressing salons, gardening centers in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are also allowed to reopen from March 1st.
In regions with a seven-day incidence of 35 and less per 100,000 inhabitants, beauticians, podiatrists and nail salons are again allowed to receive customers.
In the other regions, these regulations will come into effect one week later on March 8th.
Then visitors can come back to the outdoor areas of the zoos.
The state government and representatives of business and municipal associations agreed on this at a Corona summit on Wednesday.
In addition, the basics of a step-by-step plan to end the lockdown were agreed at the video conference.
Accordingly, retail should reopen with a limited number of customers as soon as the nationwide incidence value is stable below 35.
Public and private schools should then generally return to regular operations.
Museums can open a little later and markets can be held.
High-risk regions with seven-day incidences of over 150 are excluded.
For the time being, hotels are only allowed to receive guests from their own state
Later on, restaurants and hotels will initially only open to guests from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
Specific start dates were not given.
According to the latest information from the State Office for Health and Social Affairs, only the districts of Vorpommern-Rügen and Rostock currently have fewer than 35 corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days.
Germany will remain in a shutdown until March 7, the federal and state governments want to decide on March 3 how the corona crisis will continue.
The Chancellor sees Germany in the third wave of pandemics, scientists are warning of highly contagious virus mutations.
Nevertheless, several politicians had already spoken out in favor of less stringent requirements, such as the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD).
Your party colleague, Berlin's governing mayor Michael Müller, has promised a corresponding step-by-step plan for the exit from the shutdown up to the federal-state meeting on March 3, "definitely".
Several federal states have already submitted such plans and announced further exceptions for openings.
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