Corona withdrawal of traffic lights?

Suddenly, “hard lockdown” is an issue for Chancellor Scholz

Created: 12/23/2021 05:06 AM

By: Patrick Mayer

Federal Chancellor: Olaf Scholz from the SPD.

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One day after the federal-state summit, Chancellor Olaf Scholz does not rule out a hard corona lockdown.

Karl Lauterbach had previously commented on this.

Munich / Berlin - There should be no (partial) lockdown in Germany around Christmas and New Year's Eve.

Despite the spread of the so-called omicron variant.

That was decided by the federal-state round at the Corona summit on Tuesday (December 21).

On the same evening, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) felt compelled to clarify.

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Karl Lauterbach and Olaf Scholz don't rule anything out

“What we decided today has an impact,” said the Rhinelander to 

- “Tagesthemen”.

And arranged: “But we are not excluding anything.

So, if the number of cases actually developed in such a way that a hard lockdown also had to be discussed, then there would be no red lines.

At the moment we're not there. ”One day later, his boss followed this motto.

In view of the looming omicron wave, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) does not rule out a new lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said on Wednesday in Berlin that the Chancellor was "basically in line" with Health Minister Karl Lauterbach.

Scholz has made it clear again and again that "there can be no red lines in this pandemic," said Hebestreit.

The fact that something is not excluded does not mean “that it inevitably has to come,” he explained.

In view of the spread of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, it is important to look at and assess the situation "over and over again".

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The lifting dispute confirmed the federal government's goal of achieving a vaccination rate of 80 percent by the next Prime Minister's conference on January 7th.

This is an ambitious project.

Confident, however, that it will probably be possible by Christmas Eve to achieve the goal of 30 million booster vaccinations announced in November by the end of the year.

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The prime ministers and prime ministers of the federal states agreed on stricter corona restrictions again at their meeting with Scholz on Tuesday.

From December 28th, a maximum of ten people will apply to private meetings, including those who have been vaccinated or recovered.

Clubs and discos have to close across Germany, cultural and major events, such as the Bundesliga, take place without spectators.

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