SPD politician Scholz gives the population hope for a summer without strict conditions.
He advocates relaxation - regardless of the 7-day incidence.
Berlin - Before the next Corona summit on Wednesday, at which the federal and state governments will discuss the future Corona requirements, Olaf Scholz and other leading SPD politicians have spoken out in favor of easing.
"I insist that we formulate a concrete opening
perspective
on Wednesday," said Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz * (SPD) on Sunday evening in a
picture
live link.
Scholz demanded that decisions about possible loosening should no longer be made solely on the basis of certain incidence marks such as 50 or 35.
For example, rapid tests, for which free access was recently announced, can be used “actively for an opening strategy”.
Testing is "part of the way out of lockdown," said Scholz.
Medics, however, warn against loosening.
At the same time, the SPD candidate for chancellor believes that summer vacations are possible.
"In the summer tens of millions will be vaccinated, and that cannot remain without consequences." He also gave the population hope "that we can sit in the beer garden again in the summer".
Corona requirements: Other politicians from the SPD and the Greens also plead for openings
Federal Family Minister Franziska Giffey and SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich expressed themselves similarly to Scholz with regard to easing.
"It is very clear to me that there must be steps in opening," Giffey told the
Handelsblatt
.
"The new developments in the approval of self-tests and the vaccination that has started provide tailwind for this."
SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich called for more clarity regarding the corona requirements *.
"People must finally know when and according to which criteria it will be relaxed or, if necessary, tightened again," the
Süddeutsche Zeitung
quoted
Mützenich.
The head of the SPD parliamentary group criticized Germany's previous pandemic management.
There should have been "less uncoordinated advance of individual countries and more unity", as he
explained
to the
SZ
.
Coronavirus: On Wednesday, easing will be discussed
How to proceed with the corona policy will be decided on Wednesday.
Then Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel * (CDU) and the prime ministers of the federal states want to decide again on easing and conditions.
The last summit took place three weeks ago.
The Chancellor and the country leaders had agreed to discuss an opening perspective at the next meeting - coupled with the incidence value of 35.
But the infection situation is currently worsening again slightly in Germany.
4732 new Corona * infections were reported within one day.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Monday morning that the 7-day incidence has increased to 65.8, according to the health authorities.
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