Corona summit on Tuesday: Government wants to anticipate Omikron - first decisions leaked

Created: 12/20/2021, 8:00 PM

From: Felix Durach

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz will meet again with the Prime Ministers of the federal states on Tuesday to discuss tightening the corona measures.

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• On Tuesday, Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz * and the Prime Ministers of the federal states will discuss the current Corona measures.

• The prime ministerial conference was convened mainly because of the threat of the spread of the Omikron variant.

• Based on a published draft resolution, the federal and state governments intend to tighten the measures.

• This news ticker is updated regularly.

Berlin - Even if the downward trend of new infections with the coronavirus in Germany initially seems to continue in the new week, various experts are already warning of a massive fifth wave of the pandemic. The trigger for the gloomy prognoses is the Omikron variant of the virus, which is currently on the rise in Europe. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) also warned on Friday * of unprecedented challenges due to the highly contagious mutation.

In order to anticipate such a massive fifth wave in Germany, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) will meet with the prime ministers of the federal states for another corona summit on Tuesday.

The Prime Minister's Conference takes place just three days before Christmas and is intended to provide the countries with the necessary tools to be able to control the infection situation over the holidays into the New Year.

Corona summit because of Omikron: Scholz is consulting with the Prime Minister about new measures

The MPK * draft resolution leaked in advance shows that the federal and state governments want to tighten the current measures. Vaccinated people should also be affected by these. The representatives of the federal and state governments are planning, among other things, renewed contact restrictions for the entire population, which will come into force on December 28th. Should the MPK be able to agree on the proposals, then only ten vaccinated or recovered people should meet.

The MPK also advises on this and other tightening on the recommendation of the government's new Corona Expert Council.

The committee newly introduced by the traffic light government spoke in a statement on Sunday of a "need for action" in the current situation for the coming days.

The applicable measures would therefore have to be continued "even more stringently" in the future in order to be able to control the impending fifth wave with the Omikron variant.

Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz will meet with the Prime Ministers of the federal states for the Corona summit on Tuesday.

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Based on the recommendations of the Expert Council, Chancellor Olaf Scholz and North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst, the chairman of the Prime Minister's Conference, have called the meeting for Tuesday.

In his statement on the MPK on Twitter, the latter demanded that “at no time should a careless look at the pandemic arise” and referred to the development of the number of infections in other EU countries.

After the corona summit of the federal and state governments, Chancellor Scholz will give a press conference on Tuesday afternoon in which he will explain the decisions of the MPK.

Then the citizens will definitely know what to expect between the years.

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