Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer sounds the alarm - and attacks the traffic light parties.
Meanwhile, in a survey, the majority expect a new lockdown.
Berlin - The corona situation in Germany is worsening day by day - and politics is under massive pressure.
A Munich intensive care doctor sounds the alarm: “We're running out of steam.
We are now at the maximum occupancy that we can still afford at the moment. ”Because the intensive care unit at the Munich Clinic Schwabing is on the verge of collapse.
Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) also warns with drastic words: "This fourth wave will require more victims, including more fatalities, than anything we have known before," the politician told
Bild am Sonntag
.
The 46-year-old swore the citizens to the hard winter months - and called for perseverance until Easter.
“This wave won't be over before then,” he said with conviction.
Saxony is particularly hard hit by the current corona wave - and is the state with the highest incidence.
The 2G rule applies across the board.
"Will be the deadliest wave" - Kretschmer shortly before the lockdown decision
Kretschmer added that there was still a chance of preventing a lockdown during the Christmas season.
"But we are running out of time." The Saxon therefore called for a nationwide 2G rule, reduced contacts and the cancellation of as many larger events as possible, such as Christmas markets.
He described the traffic light's corona policy as "extremely dangerous".
Their decision-making speed is too slow.
"While the traffic light politicians in Berlin are talking about the fact that there is no pandemic situation, the number of infections is exploding across the country," accused Kretschmer.
And further railed against Olaf Scholz and the SPD, Greens and FDP: "The culpable hesitation and irresponsible talk of the traffic light has already consequences."
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Michael Kretschmer (CDU), Prime Minister of Saxony, speaks.
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Green leader Robert Habeck, however, defended the decision of the traffic light to let the epidemic situation expire. "We want a legally secure connection solution in which the parliament, as the democratic sovereign, makes the essential decisions," said Habeck in the newspapers of the Funke media group on Sunday. He also stood behind strict 2G rules. The 52-year-old also suggested contact restrictions for unvaccinated people. “Contact restrictions are painful cuts, we all know that too well. But in view of the dramatic situation, they can be necessary regionally for unvaccinated people, ”he added.
FDP man Wolfgang Kubicki, in turn, refused to
put pressure on unvaccinated people
in an
interview with
Spiegel
.
Although he thinks the high quota is problematic, "he does not degrade the unvaccinated to second-class people and declare that they are to blame for the pandemic".
Corona summit by the federal and state governments: The majority of Germans expect a new lockdown
Meanwhile
, according to
an Insa survey for
Bild am Sonntag
,
60 percent of people expect
a new lockdown this year.
27 percent do not believe that it will come to that, 12 percent did not provide any information.
Before the top meeting of the federal and state governments on the dramatic corona situation, the pressure for decisive action is growing.
In an appeal, 35 leading medical professionals and other experts call on governments to change course quickly.
After much back and forth, the federal and state governments want to discuss the corona situation next Thursday.
The possible coalition parties SPD, Greens and FDP want to let the special status of the epidemic situation of national scope expire on November 25 and replace it with a more restricted catalog of measures in the Infection Protection Act.
(aka with material from dpa)
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