The number of corona infections is rising again, and the Prime Minister and Chancellor Merkel are again advising.
The news ticker for the Corona summit on March 22nd.
On Monday (March 22), Chancellor Merkel will consult with the country leaders again about the Corona * situation in Germany *.
The lockdown * is to be extended according to a draft resolution that has been circulated in advance.
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach has already called for tightening in advance
(see update from March 22, 8:05 a.m.)
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This news ticker is continuously updated.
Update from March 22nd, 8:05 am
: According to Karl Lauterbach, a lockdown extension is "without ifs and buts necessary".
Otherwise the death rate would double.
"At the beginning of the third wave we have more patients with Covid-19 in intensive care units than at the end of the first wave," he said
live
on Sunday evening on
Bild
.
That should also be reflected in the death rate, continued the SPD health expert: "Every second person dies who has to be ventilated, including the younger ones."
Before the Corona summit with Merkel: Lauterbach warns of virus mutation
Lauterbach does not yet consider the controversial night curfew to be absolutely necessary - but if the number of cases continues to rise rapidly, it is unlikely to be avoided, the epidemiologist warned.
The reason for this is that the spreading corona mutation B.1.1.7 * is "four to eight times as contagious" as the previous virus when viewed over a month.
"So far, no country has managed to get the much faster pandemic with this mutation under control without there having been exit restrictions in lockdown," said Lauterbach.
Nevertheless, it must be clear: "Exit restrictions are the last resort, you have to try to prevent that." The only chance to do this is offered by a "very strict test concept" with two tests per week in all schools and companies.
The capacities for this are being "built up feverishly".
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Chancellor Angela Merkel and SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach talk in the Chancellery on the sidelines of a Bundestag session.
© Kay Nietfeld / dpa
Before the Corona summit: Merkel pleads for "emergency brake" - survey shows clear resistance
Our first report on March 21
: Berlin - The “emergency brake” has been a household name since the beginning of March.
Not in connection with Deutsche Bahn.
But with the decision of the country chiefs and Chancellor Angela Merkel * (CDU *) on March 3: If the 7-day incidence * of Corona rises to over 100 on three consecutive days in a federal state or region, easing will be withdrawn and Contacts restricted again.
Is it already that far for Germany *?
The incidence crossed the 100 mark nationwide at the weekend.
Before the Bund-Länder consultations on March 22nd (Monday), Merkel spoke out in favor of “making use” of this brake.
These would be the concrete consequences:
Facilities such as museums and zoos would have to close again.
Businesses would have to give up their openings in the "Click & Meet" mode.
Private meetings would again have to be limited to one's own household and one other person.
In many regions the emergency brake would have to be pulled long ago because the incidence has risen to over 100.
The city-state of Hamburg, for example, officially put it into effect on Friday.
Before the Corona summit with Merkel on March 22nd: SPD calls for lockdown by April
At the corona deliberations of the Chancellor and Prime Minister this Monday, the SPD * -roverned countries want to talk about a general extension of the applicable lockdown regulations until April.
The corresponding state regulations would be up to “XX.
April 2021 ", it says without a specific date in one of the
dpa
drafts of the SPD countries.
For the time being, the regulations apply until March 28th.
The paper, dated Saturday, 8.40 p.m., also speaks of a concept of “low-contact vacation”.
This could therefore 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 could be possible in accommodations where you can use your own sanitary facilities and organize meals through self-sufficiency.
This applies to apartments and holiday homes, caravans and mobile homes.
Lauterbach before Corona summit with Merkel: "Harder lockdown until mid-April"
Before the new corona summit of the federal and state governments, the SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach called for the withdrawal of all easing steps of the past two weeks and a tightening of the lockdown.
This tougher lockdown must apply until mid-April, Lauterbach told the
world
on Sunday
.
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Health Minister Jens Spahn welcomes SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach because of Corona with his elbow before the press conference on the vaccination strategy in Berlin.
© Michael Kappeler / dpa
It is about bridging the time until the vaccinations pick up speed and rapid tests are available nationwide in all schools and companies, said the SPD politician.
"A short hard lockdown for three to four weeks would be ideal, until testing in schools and companies is correct."
The SPD politician warned urgently of the consequences of the spread of the so-called British virus mutation *, which could even make a curfew necessary.
"All countries that got the B117 mutation under control needed a harder lockdown than we currently have," said Lauterbach.
"Nobody could do without curfews."
Chancellery chief Helge Braun (CDU) pointed out on Sunday on Twitter that the paper circulating in Berlin “does NOT come from the Chancellery”.
Corona survey in Germany: Clear majority against tightening the lockdown
Meanwhile, a clear majority of Germans are against tightening the restrictions on avoiding contact.
In a survey by the opinion research institute
YouGov
on behalf of the
dpa
, only 30 percent were in favor of extending the lockdown again.
On the other hand, 23 percent are in favor of maintaining the current measures, 22 percent in favor of easing them.
15 percent even advocate an end to all restrictions on freedoms.
Ten percent did not provide any information.
The representative survey of 2059 people was carried out from Tuesday to Thursday.
Merkel has already prepared the population for tightening.
On Friday she pointed to the "emergency brake" agreed by the federal and state governments with a 7-day incidence of 100 or more. "And unfortunately we will also have to use this emergency brake," said Merkel.
(AFP / dpa / frs)
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