CDU boss Armin Laschet is now calling for a bridge lockdown for Germany in the coronavirus pandemic.
What measures this envisages - and what the hoped-for easing would mean.
Munich / Aachen / Berlin - bridge lockdown.
It is the latest word creation in the coronavirus pandemic in Germany.
The term Armin Laschet (CDU) can be assigned.
The Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia brought up the new lockdown scenario on Easter Monday (April 5) when visiting a vaccination center in Aachen.
CDU boss Laschet referred to the high number of Covid 19 infections in the third corona wave in the Federal Republic.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Armin Laschet pleads for a bridge lockdown
“That's why I think we need a bridge lockdown.
We have to build the bridge again at the time when many people are vaccinated, "said the possible candidate for chancellor of the Union, who had advocated controlled opening steps at the beginning of March.
After a recent complaint by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), the sudden change in strategy in the State Chancellery in Düsseldorf apparently followed.
Tough lockdown instead of loosening?
The ARD Tagesschau listed on Easter Monday which measures Laschet's "bridge lockdown" would mean for Germany:
Corona: tough rules instead of easing?
Which corona measures the "bridge lockdown" provides
By definition, the bridge lockdown is
a lockdown until more people in Germany are vaccinated.
Private contacts
are to be reduced even further.
If the 7-day incidence is not below 35, two households with a maximum of five people are currently allowed to meet.
Apparently that does not go far enough for Laschet.
Exit restrictions
are explicitly mentioned as an option.
Daycare centers and schools
: Here in Germany one should concentrate on what is necessary, so the suggestion literally.
Specific guidelines are not given.
Relaxation in the catering and retail trade
does not play a role in the brief sketch of the bridge lockdown.
The same applies, for example, to fitness studios, leisure facilities, clubs and the topic of vacation.
Workplace:
Employers should make it easier for their employees to work from home.
Corona rules:
Laschet calls for faster political decisions.
The Prime Minister's Conference planned for April 12 should be brought forward significantly.
At first glance, the bridge lockdown does not contain anything innovative apart from the more rapid political decisions.
What is remarkable, however, is the time frame that Laschet roughly limits: "Until many people are vaccinated."
Bridge lockdown in Germany?
At least 50 million people must be vaccinated for herd immunity
According to the World Health Organization WHO and Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Germany needs herd immunity (and thus vaccination quota) of 60 to 70 percent of its population in order to contain the coronavirus.
It is therefore about 50 million vaccinated in the Federal Republic alone - at least.
The vaccination campaigns abroad have not yet been taken into account.
Would that mean weeks of bridge lockdown?
According to the
vaccination dashboard
of the Federal
Ministry
of Health and RKI, as of Good Friday, April 2, at least 12.1 percent of people living in Germany had received an initial vaccination against Covid-19.
The vaccination campaign is slow.
So much remains to be done - with or without a bridge lockdown.
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