The tense corona situation in Germany is causing concern in many places.
The traffic light parties and representatives from the federal and state governments confer.
The news ticker.
On Thursday the federal and state governments will discuss further measures in the fight against the corona virus *.
Helge Braun calls for an extension of the epidemic situation in Germany (
see update from November 18, 9:59 a.m.
).
Shortly before the corona consultations between the federal and state governments, there is still no agreement on important points
(see update from November 18, 12 noon)
.
This ticker for the Corona summit is continuously updated.
Update from November 18, 3 p.m.: The
federal and state corona summit is now running - and there is apparently already an initial agreement.
According to a report by the
Business Insider
portal, Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Prime Ministers have agreed
on a specific mechanism for applying 2G and 2G + rules in restaurants, bars, hairdressers and events.
Accordingly, 2G should apply from a hospitalization rate of 3.0, 2G + but a hospitalization rate of 6.0.
The rate should also be decisive for further measures.
From a value of 9.0, the federal states should be able to take further steps, reports the website.
Of course, this is in accordance with the recently passed Infection Protection Act.
Contact restrictions for unvaccinated people would be conceivable.
According to information from
Focus Online
, Merkel opened the summit with the words “we're full!”.
Following the outgoing head of government, her presumed successor, Olaf Scholz, should speak.
Corona summit live: important points still completely unclear - is Merkel speaking one last word of power?
Update from November 18, 1:10 p.m.:
The federal-state consultations on measures against the dramatic corona development are delayed.
The Prime Minister's Conference with the Executive Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), originally scheduled for 1 p.m. on Thursday, will initially be postponed by one hour, according to the state chancelleries of the federal states.
Before the meeting, there were still many crucial points open.
Among other things, it is unclear whether a threshold value should be defined for Covid-19 patients in hospitals, beyond which there should be access restrictions for unvaccinated people or, for example, test obligations for vaccinated and convalescent people (2G plus).
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Olaf Scholz (SPD), Executive Minister of Finance, in conversation with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) during the session of the Bundestag.
© Michael Kappeler / dpa
Various preliminary draft resolutions are available for this purpose.
This is a basis for discussion.
In preliminary talks that went well, there had already been approximations, according to participants.
As in the previous rounds of the Prime Minister's Conference (MPK) with Merkel, a final agreement is only reached at the very end.
Corona in Germany: federal-state consultations - important points still open
Update from November 18, 12 noon:
In the country consultations on the Corona crisis, there is still no agreement on important points shortly before the meeting with the Executive Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) planned for the afternoon. It is still unclear from what hospitalization rate there should be access restrictions for unvaccinated people or, for example, test obligations for vaccinated and convalescent people (2G plus). This emerges from a proposal for a resolution presented to the German Press Agency on Thursday, which was sent to the other states on the night of Wednesday evening from North Rhine-Westphalia after deliberations with the heads of state chancellery. NRW is currently the country where the Prime Minister's Conference is chaired.
In principle, the draft resolution now available is only a basis for discussion.
As in the previous rounds of the Prime Minister's Conference with Merkel, a final agreement is only reached at the very end.
On Thursday it was unclear how long the deliberations, which began in the early afternoon, would last.
It was also unclear how the extension of the epidemic situation of national scope, called for by the Union side, would continue.
In the Bundestag, the Union parliamentary group submitted an application for an extension, but it was given little chance of success.
The traffic light factions of the SPD, Greens and FDP are against it.
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Angel Merkel and Olaf Scholz meet with those responsible from the federal and state levels.
© Markus Schreiber / dpa
This point is also put in brackets in the paper for the deliberations between the Prime Ministers and Merkel.
In the unified point 19 of the paper it is said that the application of important measures listed in the Infection Protection Act requires the establishment of an epidemic situation of national scope.
This is likely to be the attitude of the Union-led countries.
Corona summit live: Lockdown tightening in conversation - does Merkel have one last word of power?
Update from November 18, 11.29 a.m.:
The traffic light would like to let the epidemic situation of national scope expire, Chancellor Angela Merkel, however, has a different opinion.
At the German Association of Cities, she said that she had no doubt "that we are in the middle of such an emergency."
At the Prime Minister's Conference scheduled for the afternoon, Merkel could try again to use her political power and to set the direction for German corona policy. But it won't be easy, after all, Merkel is only in office as a manager.
The Union now wants to use a motion in the Bundestag to ensure that the epidemic situation does not end. But they will hardly find a majority there. According to information from the news magazine
Spiegel
, the traffic light groups were even ready to talk recently and approached the Union. The deadline for a transitional arrangement for the new measures has moved the traffic lights from the end of November to mid-December. Nevertheless, the Union wants to prevent the traffic light package and try to get stricter measures through the Prime Minister's Conference and the Federal Council on Friday.
Update from November 18, 9:59 a.m.:
Before the Prime Minister's
Conference
on the corona pandemic, the executive head of the Chancellery Helge Braun from the CDU asked the traffic light parties to extend the epidemic situation on a national level. “The best thing would still be to prolong the epidemic situation. That would give the federal states every opportunity in the event of even higher incidences, ”Braun told the
editorial network Germany
. "The catalog presented by the traffic light has been tightened, but it is not complete."
The epidemic of national proportions expires on November 25th.
Instead, the traffic light coalitioners want to seal new regulations as a corona brake.
They are intended to create a different legal basis for local conditions *.
The corona wave continues to build up.
The health authorities reported the maximum of 65,371 new cases in one day on Thursday.
Corona summit: Federal and state governments discuss new measures - will there be another lockdown?
Update from November 18, 8:00 a.m.:
Before the corona crisis meeting of the federal and state governments, the districts demanded the rapid introduction of mandatory vaccination for employees in nursing homes. It was “high time for certain occupational groups to be compulsory,” said the President of the German District Assembly, Reinhard Sager, to the newspapers of the Funke media group on Thursday. This is necessary "in view of 15 million unvaccinated people, a seven-day incidence of over 300 and a regionally worsening situation".
The umbrella organization of the German Nursing Council also called for mandatory vaccinations for all employees in nursing homes and hospitals. A vaccination requirement only for certain professional groups such as doctors or nurses is the wrong way, said association president Christine Vogler of
Wirtschaftswoche
. “You should consider that often half or more than half of the nursing staff in facilities are not skilled workers.” They are semi-skilled or temporary and are therefore not covered by a vaccination requirement.
"When we talk about vaccination requirements, we basically have to talk about everyone who works in the facilities," demanded Vogler.
“Everyone who goes there every day is in direct or indirect contact with the others.
This applies to doctors, nurses, assistants, caretakers, kitchen workers and cleaning staff. ”Vogler pointed out that there were already vaccination guidelines that could quickly serve as a model.
For example, staff in hospitals have to prove that they are protected against hepatitis.
First report from November 18, 7.30 a.m .:
Berlin - The fourth wave of the corona pandemic * has Germany firmly under control. In the fight against the corona virus *, the federal and state governments want to discuss an adjustment of the measures on Thursday afternoon (November 18). Both the outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel * (CDU *) and her potential successor Olaf Scholz * (SPD *) will attend the summit.
Immediately before the beginning of the federal-state summit, the traffic light parties want to have their infection protection law approved by the Bundestag on Thursday morning.
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder criticized at the beginning of the week that the draft law by the SPD, Greens * and FDP * will be presented to the plenary without waiting for the Corona summit.
"It would have been better, instead of having a Prime Minister's Conference on Thursday afternoon, to do it in the morning or Wednesday - before the law is passed," said Söder on Tuesday (November 16) in the ZDF "Morgenmagazin" *.
Corona summit: Söder etches before the federal-state meeting against the FDP
The CSU boss also commented on the different views of the traffic light in terms of mandatory vaccination for certain professional groups.
"There is a section that fights with hands and feet against tightened measures," said Söder, "that is the FDP." The SPD and the Greens are more solution-oriented.
Among other things, the traffic light partners are planning a 3G rule at work and on public transport.
In addition, the law is intended to preserve the possibility of enforcing corona measures such as the mask requirement or contact restrictions even after the epidemic situation has expired, which are of national scope.
Nevertheless, there was criticism from the Union, the traffic light plans do not go far enough *.
Corona summit: Infection protection law of the Apel parties already approved on Friday?
If the draft law makes it through the Bundestag * on Thursday and it is passed there, the new Infection Protection Act could be approved by the Bundesrat * on Friday.
In addition to the Infection Protection Act, the topic of booster vaccinations is also likely to be hotly debated.
A demand came from Hesse the day before the federal-state summit.
Prime Minister Volker Bouffier asked the
dpa for
a nationwide uniform regulation for Corona booster vaccinations.
In addition, the father of Hesse wants to clarify with the summit participants whether there should be economic aid for certain industries that have suffered particularly from the corona restrictions.
(kh / dpa / afp) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
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