The Germany will spend the Christmas holidays in lockdown. The lockout lasts, after failure of choice light of the last few weeks, it will begin Wednesday 16 and will end on January 10. The decision, in the air for days, came at the end of the meeting between Angela Merkel e i governors of the Laender. Besides restaurants, sport centers, locals and cultural institutions, therefore, will also close i shops and there will be one close its schools, nature e playground. For the holidays, it will be possible to meet for a maximum of 5 people of two families. No exceptions for New Year when fireworks will also be banned.
“The measures established on November 2 of have not acted sufficiently ”, there is again an increase in cases of Covid e “An exponential growth” of the infection, explained the chancellor at a press conference. “We know the health system is already very tired. Need aurgent action “, he added. “The goal remains to return to the possibility of reconstructing the contact chains” after the tracking skipped and that a maximum incidence is reached again 50 new cases per 100 thousand inhabitants in seven days. “We must act and act right now”Merkel said, stressing the importance of protecting the national health system. Germany risks becoming, in the pandemic, “The case in Europe”, “For this we must act”, said the president of Bavaria Markus Soeder. “There weren’t long this morning negotiations on the details, because today the situation is different. The coronavirus is out of control “. The pandemic “It’s a catastrophe”, he added.
From the pages of Spiegel, the Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer he had asked for the past few days an immediate lockdown and even the head of state, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, had intervened defining the “very serious” situation. At the end of a extraordinary summit the confirmation arrived between the chancellor and the governors. Some areas of the country had already moved in this direction. The serious situation in Saxony, where “triage” would be risked, according to what the Picture, imposed the closure of schools, kindergartens and shops immediately after weekend.
The pressure on the health system of Germany has been increasing for weeks, due to the surge in cases of Covid contagion, which have not dropped despite the semi-lockdown. In the federal republic that passed through the first wave of the pandemic in an exemplary way, hospitals are now in trouble terapie intensive that continue to fill up. “I’m heartily sorry but if the price are 590 deaths per day it is not acceptable, ”Merkel said in a speech of unprecedented emotional intensity delivered three days ago to Bundestag, where she has come to warn against conduct that could lead to “the last Christmas with grandparents”. Even the president of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, was categorical: “The situation in the last week is worsened. Don’t travel unless essential, celebrate in a virtual way ”, the appeal without mincing words.
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