Chancellor Angela Merkel pleaded Thursday January 14 for significantly tightened restrictions in the face of the pandemic Covid-19 in Germany, where partial confinement is already imposed, and requested a meeting of the authorities from next week.
During a meeting of the leadership of her conservative movement, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), she estimated that the virus could only be contained with clearly toughened measures, said this source who participated in the meeting. by relating his remarks to the indirect style. This source confirmed information published in several German media.
Only hypotheses
According to the magazine’s news site The mirror and that of everyday life picture, among the measures under study is the reintroduction of border controls, as last spring, a generalization of the wearing of the FPP2 mask by the public, the imposition of teleworking, even the closure of public transport.
However, at this stage this is only a list of working hypotheses that have not yet been discussed with the leaders of the German regional states. However, in the federal state of Germany, it is ultimately they who have the upper hand in matters of health or public transport, for example.
The source who attended the meeting stressed that everything would be done to avoid a closure of public transport. But “We must succeed in controlling the British variant” du Covid-19 “Through reduced contact” extra between people, she said.
Concern is growing about the continued spread of the pandemic in the country and the arrival of the new variant identified first in Great Britain: while Germany was rather spared by the first wave in the spring, as a good student in Europe, this winter it is one of the most affected states.
Record number of deaths
The daily death toll often exceeds a thousand and the total number of infections recorded in the country is on the verge of passing the two million mark.
The national health watch institute Robert Koch also said it was in favor of strengthening restrictions in the country, which on Thursday recorded a record number of deaths linked to Covid-19.
“The measures currently in place, for me it is not a complete lockdown, there are still too many exceptions”institute president Lothar Wieler told a press conference.
However, Germany adopted strict measures several weeks ago, from the closure of schools and high schools, to non-essential shops, bars and restaurants, through drastic restrictions on authorized meetings.
Over 25,000 new cases in 24 hours
Some 25,164 new cases have been identified in the past 24 hours and 1,244 deaths, a record number.
The Robert Koch Institute, referring to traffic on the roads on weekends, considers in particular that the mobility of Germans is currently less limited than in the spring.
The president of the Robert Koch institute, however, sees grounds for hope with the vaccination campaign.
More than 842,000 people, some 1% of the population, had been vaccinated Thursday in Germany. “By the end of the year, we will have brought this pandemic under control”, wants to believe Mr. Wieler.
The worsening pandemic prompted German parties on Thursday to agree on the postponement of a regional election in the state of Thuringia, originally scheduled for April 25 and to be held on September 26.
This Land in the east of the country is currently the most affected by the virus, with 310 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the last seven days, against 150 on average in the country.
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