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Dietmar Bartsch, Chairman of the Left in the Bundestag: "Corona maze instead of a clear step-by-step plan: The decisions to combat pandemic are difficult to understand."
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During the night, the Prime Ministers of the federal states and Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) agreed on a new corona strategy.
(Read more about this here).
Parts of the opposition cannot understand the decisions.
The FDP chairman Christian Lindner accused the federal government of failure in the fight against the corona pandemic.
At the beginning, all errors and misjudgments were made, he said on Deutschlandfunk.
That must be distinguished from the "management mistakes" that have been made to this day.
“The fact that the problem of ordering masks and procuring vaccines now appears to be repeating itself in the rapid and self-tests, that is a gross failure of the federal government.
We could and should be further. "He told the newspapers of the Funke media group about the new resolutions:" For the federal government, the lockdown is apparently the only conceivable recipe.
With innovative concepts, more social and economic life would be possible «.
Left parliamentary group leader Dietmar Bartsch said: »Corona maze instead of a clear step-by-step plan: The decisions to combat pandemic are difficult to understand.
Today we have seen a chaos of incidence and relaxation that will unsettle citizens. "
On the other hand, "the key issue of rapid vaccination" played too little role, said Bartsch.
"We need a national vaccination effort to get out of the lockdown permanently," he pointed out.
Merkel must make this a top priority so that "over six million vaccine doses are not lying around by Easter."
Habeck: "As a citizen you feel abandoned"
Green leader Robert Habeck was also disappointed by the federal-state resolutions.
"As a citizen, you feel abandoned," he says on Deutschlandfunk.
From his point of view, what is being done is not wise.
"Hope is being relied on, but that is not a strategy," criticizes Habeck.
"We are at the beginning of a third wave and are talking about opening instead of vaccinating, talking about testing, talking about traceability." It must first be tested, then there could be openings.
The federal government gets entangled in bureaucracy instead of just doing it and, for example, ordering quick tests without further ado.
The German Association of Towns and Municipalities called the resolutions on the corona tests too vague.
»The organization is in the hands of the federal states and municipalities.
How the self-tests should fit into the system, how the proof is documented, how long it should allow certain accesses, has unfortunately not yet been answered, "said chief executive Gerd Landsberg of the" Rheinische Post ".
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