Corona special meeting with Söder: Bavaria imposes disaster and curfew

• The federal and state governments decide to extend the partial lockdown until January 10th.
• The measures due to the corona virus are not only approved.
• Bavaria, especially Söder, the measures do not go far enough ..

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+++ 2.40 p.m .: Because of the persistently high Corona infection numbers Bavaria overturns the easing planned for New Year’s Eve. Only on Christmas days should the contact restrictions be loosened, like Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) announced on Sunday after a cabinet meeting. Only from December 23rd to 26th, meetings beyond the currently permitted five participants from two households with up to a maximum of ten people from up to ten households are permitted.

Corona special meeting with Söder: Bavaria imposes disaster and exit restrictions

+++ 2.15 p.m .: Bavaria is calling because of the persistently high Corona numbers the disaster again and imposed a night exit restriction in particularly affected regions. This should apply from a seven-day incidence of 200 to 100,000 inhabitants, as the Prime Minister Markus Söder announced on Sunday after a cabinet meeting in Munich.

In addition, classroom teaching in schools will be significantly restricted from next Wednesday. From grade eight onwards, the classes should be divided everywhere and switched to alternating lessons. In hotspots with an incidence of 200 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in a week, the pupils from the eighth grade should switch completely to distance learning.

Update from Sunday, December 6th, 2020, 9 a.m .: Given the barely sinking Corona infection numbers In Bavaria, as in individual other countries, tightening of the applicable rules is on the way. Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has called his cabinet together for a special session this Sunday afternoon. According to the State Chancellery, the Council of Ministers wants to advise on “further measures” via video link. “It now needs a consistent approach,” Söder told the press. “We can the high death toll not accept in Germany. The infection rates are still too high. It is better to act until Christmas than a permanent stop-and-go for the population .. “

Virologist Alexander Kekulé on corona lockdown: “Politics seems to be poking in the fog”

Berlin – Last Wednesday (December 2nd, 2020) Federal and State together an extension of the Partial lockdowns decided. Specifically, restaurants, museums, theaters and leisure facilities must remain closed until January 10th. “In principle, the situation remains as it is now, with the exception of course the Christmas regulations, which were made extra,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) after consultations with the Prime Ministers of the federal states. However, it will already be discussed on January 4th how it will depend on the Corona-Pandemie-Lage will go further.

Corona lockdown until January 10: Söder speaks of tightening

It is already clear that the federal states still do not agree on the decided regulations. Shortly after the announcement, Bavaria was Prime Minister Markus Söder pushed forward and had a tightening of the Corona measures At the beginning of January indicated: “The question is whether we can keep the country in this kind of half-sleep the whole time or whether we don’t have to think about going deeper in some places very clearly and consistently,” said the CSU chairman. One also has to think about “becoming more consistent before Christmas” and consider how the number of new corona infections could be reduced.

Lothar Wieler, President of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), currently states that Germany is the Infection numbers currently “not getting down with all verve”. The restrictions that have been in place since the beginning of November are much milder than in spring, as a tougher implementation of the Corona measures had shown an effect: at the end of March the number of new infections every day was around 4,000. Four weeks later, the RKI reported a good 2,000 new cases per day, at the beginning of May around 1,000. It must be added that significantly fewer tests were carried out in the spring, and the numbers cannot be compared with the current ones.

Meanwhile, Saxony has tightened its own Corona measures seized – with an incidence of 261.5, the country has the highest national value. Since December 1st, houses and apartments can only be left there “for valid reasons”, for example to go to work or to the doctor. Wearing a mask in the open air is now compulsory if people are in public areas such as pedestrian zones or parking lots. Almost the entire Free State is affected by the restrictions – with the exception of the large cities Leipzig and Dresden. Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU) said that the virus was underestimated.