The corona numbers are increasing.
Nevertheless, Easter vacation could be possible.
A resolution proposal for the Corona summit with Chancellor Merkel gives hope.
Update from March 21, 8:42 p.m.:
A new draft resolution for the upcoming federal-state summit has reached the media - the paper that
Merkur.de
* is available and probably comes from the Chancellery also addresses potential vacations.
In view of the upcoming Easter days, the draft says: "The federal and state governments continue to urgently appeal to all citizens to refrain from traveling in Germany and abroad that are not absolutely necessary".
And further: "The appearance of various Covid-19 variants and their worldwide distribution have shown that cross-border travel must continue to be limited to the absolutely necessary minimum." This passage could affect the currently particularly controversial trips by Germans to Mallorca Respectively.
Two concrete proposals are noted in square brackets - and thus apparently controversial.
On the one hand, the "low-contact vacation" (see update from 11:59 am) is being debated, on the other hand there is a strict regulation for those returning home.
"Travel, especially vacation trips abroad, must therefore be combined with an epidemiologically required quarantine and an obligation to test before return and when entering the Federal Republic of Germany, regardless of incidences in the destination country", says the template.
Update from March 21, 6:17 p.m.:
Despite the sharp rise in the number of corona infections, a majority of Germans would like hotels and restaurants to open at the beginning of the Easter holidays.
This was the result of a YouGov survey commissioned by the German Press Agency.
The coastal states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schleswig Holstein and Lower Saxony made the specific proposal on Sunday to allow Easter holidays in this country as well.
However, this should only be allowed in your own federal state and only for self-caterers with their own sanitary facilities - for example in holiday apartments, holiday homes or mobile homes.
Short breaks in Germany are not possible according to the applicable Corona regulations.
The decision of the federal government to remove Mallorca from the list of corona risk areas and thus also to lift the travel warning from the Federal Foreign Office caused head shaking.
Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU) said: "I cannot understand why the federal government considers a holiday on Mallorca to be safer than an Easter weekend with mandatory testing in a holiday apartment on the North or Baltic Sea." As the number of infections increases, continue to be careful and vigilant.
According to the coastal state proposal, a prerequisite for a vacation in one's own country would be a negative antigen test shortly before arrival.
Survey: More than half of Germans are in favor of opening hotels
According to the YouGov survey, 52 percent are in favor of allowing hotels and other accommodation providers to reopen with appropriate hygiene and distance rules.
14 percent are even in favor of unrestricted opening.
Only 25 percent of those surveyed think that the hotels should remain closed during the Easter holidays.
9 percent did not provide any information.
Around three quarters of those surveyed are in favor of opening up restaurants, beer gardens, pubs and cafés.
32 percent say that guests should only be able to be entertained outside at Easter under certain conditions.
Another 34 percent are in favor of opening up the interior with conditions.
11 percent want to allow the innkeepers to open without conditions.
Only 16 percent say restaurants and pubs should remain closed.
Update from March 21, 12.49 p.m.:
According to the head of the Chancellery, Helge Braun, the summit template, which is reported by various media, does NOT come from the Chancellery.
According to
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information, the paper comes from the SPD-governed federal states.
Nevertheless, the paper gives an outlook on what could be possible.
Travel in your own federal state should be possible under certain conditions (see update from March 21, 11:59 a.m.).
Travel abroad, on the other hand, should be strictly limited.
Regardless of the incidence in the travel destination country, mandatory testing is to be introduced for travelers returning, the paper says.
That would mean: Mallorca vacationers also have to take a test when they return.
Update from March 21, 11:59 a.m.:
Now a draft resolution has already
leaked
one day before the federal-state summit.
Accordingly, Angela Merkel wants to extend the lockdown.
But when it comes to travel and vacations, there is hope.
The
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quotes from the template as follows: "The concept of 'low-contact vacation' can be made possible for citizens of their own country, taking into account the applicable contact restrictions, strict hygiene requirements and the implementation of a test regime".
This would include overnight stays, where meals can be organized through self-sufficiency and own sanitary facilities can be used.
So that means: Holidays in holiday flats and apartments as well as in mobile homes could be possible in your own federal state.
However, according to the report, this passage is put in square brackets.
This should indicate that there is still a clear need for coordination between the federal and state governments.
In addition, the draft resolution speaks of a “special federal program” for tourism and related areas.
Means: They want to give the sector further assistance.
This program could therefore start if an opening at Easter is not possible due to the corona numbers.
Corona summit with Merkel: Easter vacation despite third wave?
First report from March 21: Berlin - The current Corona numbers in Germany are causing great concern.
The RKI warned days ago that the third wave had already reached Germany.
Hidden in his report, it was even mentioned that the incidence of the British mutant had been increasing exponentially for weeks. *
Corona summit: Easter vacation despite rising numbers?
In this situation, the Corona summit between the federal and state governments is now on the program on March 22nd.
Here Angela Merkel and the state princes actually wanted to discuss the easing of lockdowns based on the previously worked out 5-step plan.
Especially the upcoming Easter holidays should be a topic.
Many people recently hoped for easing - also to be able to visit their relatives on the holidays.
But after a year full of Corona * measures, many Germans also long for a vacation in general.
Even before Easter, many took the chance that Mallorca is no longer a risk area and traveled to the south *.
Corona summit with Merkel: Easter vacation?
Already in advance there is a threat of going it alone
That caused trouble in Germany.
On the one hand, many warn of the risks.
For example, Olaf Scholz: "If a lot of people go on Easter vacation on a grand scale, it jeopardizes the summer vacation of all of us," said the finance minister shortly before the Merkel summit on BamS.
But Scholz also opened a back door: "Perhaps within a country it is possible to enable vacation homes to be used," said the SPD politician.
The prerequisite for this, however, is that the incidence values are correspondingly low.
Other politicians are angry that some are now flying to Mallorca, while holidays in Germany are not possible because of the existing measures.
For example, Prime Minister Malu Dreyer in Rhineland-Palatinate wants to facilitate easing despite the increasing number of infections.
Among other things, the outdoor catering is to open on March 22nd.
The aim is "that people can hike with us during the upcoming Easter holidays and stop in a garden restaurant instead of flying to Mallorca," said Dreyer.
And even in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein, a number of hotels could open at Easter despite increasing numbers.
The Prime Ministers Daniel Günther and Manuela Schwesig had expressed their opinion in advance accordingly.
On the other hand, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder has already ruled out further easing in view of the pandemic situation.
So hot discussions are pending at the federal-state summit.
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