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Stricter rules because of Omicron? New lockdown required before Corona summit

2021-12-20T09:36:34.916Z


Stricter rules because of Omicron? New lockdown required before Corona summit Created: 12/20/2021Updated: 12/20/2021, 10:25 AM From: Tobias Utz The Omikron variant creates uncertainty in politics and society. Calls for tougher measures are growing. A corona summit will therefore take place on Tuesday. On Tuesday, the federal and state governments will discuss a new Corona summit *. The central


Stricter rules because of Omicron?

New lockdown required before Corona summit

Created: 12/20/2021Updated: 12/20/2021, 10:25 AM

From: Tobias Utz

The Omikron variant creates uncertainty in politics and society.

Calls for tougher measures are growing.

A corona summit will therefore take place on Tuesday.

  • On Tuesday, the federal and state governments will discuss a new Corona summit *.

  • The central point of contention are the Corona rules *, among other things, stricter contact restrictions are required.

    The reason given is the spread of the omicron variant *.

  • Another lockdown in Germany is also being discussed.

  • The news about the Corona summit in the news ticker.

Berlin - On Tuesday there will be another corona summit at which the federal and state governments want to discuss how to proceed in the pandemic.

The background to the consultations is the spread of the highly infectious Omicron variant of Sars-CoV-2 in Germany and Europe.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (both SPD) in conversation.

On Tuesday you will be involved in the renewed Corona summit.

© Florian Gaertner / Photothek / Imago Images

As a possible decision of the Corona summit, tightened contact restrictions are already in the room.

It is still completely unclear whether these already apply over the Christmas holidays or whether they should only affect New Year's Eve, for example.

It is also uncertain who the contact restrictions will apply to.

In the run-up to the summit it is discussed that vaccinated and convalescent people could also be affected.

The reason for this is the fear of overloading the health system.

The new Expert Council of the Federal Government urged such contact restrictions.

In a statement it said: “Effective nationwide coordinated countermeasures to control the infection process” should be prepared for the “coming days”.

Corona summit: new contact restrictions and lockdown?

In addition to new contact restrictions, a new lockdown could also come.

The voices after such a measure are currently louder.

For example, Janosch Dahmen, Member of the Bundestag for the Greens *, brought a lockdown into play.

“We have to get ahead of the Omikron wave with our measures.

Our actions today will determine tomorrow's pandemic situation, ”he told the dpa.

“Given the extremely high transferability of Omikron, we will probably not be able to avoid a lockdown after Christmas.

A possible scenario would be a well-planned lockdown at the beginning of January, ”said Dahmen in an interview.

Klaus Reinhardt, President of the German Medical Association, also emphasized that a new lockdown could not be ruled out: “There is a risk that we will have to go into a new lockdown,” Reinhardt told Tagesspiegel.

Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach *, however, ruled out another lockdown.

However, he was referring to a possible lockdown before Christmas.

So far, he has given little information on regulations after the Christmas holidays.

Nevertheless, Lauterbach emphasized that new contact restrictions are needed in order to counter the pandemic effectively.

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Source: merkur

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