It was a summit meeting, worthy of the authorities’ concerns german in the face of the resurgence of coronavirus. Wednesday October 14, the Chancellor Angela Merkel met the leaders of the sixteen regions, the Länder, to define a common strategy.
Germany, which is close to 9,700 dead, has suffered much less than France, which has nearly 33,000 deaths. But the new cases, which are reaching levels not seen in six months, raise fears of the worst.
Coordinate the Länder
In the very federal Germany, where the Länder have all power over the restrictions related to Covid-19, Angela Merkel wants to avoid the cacophony. Hence this meeting to coordinate the actions of the Länder, which should lower and above all harmonize the alert threshold.
If exceeded, bars and restaurants could be targeted, as in Berlin, where they must already close from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. An enlargement of the wearing of the mask was also mentioned by the Chancellor.
Mask compulsory in the Netherlands
Same concern on the side of his counterpart Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of Netherlands. On Tuesday, October 13, the latter made a total turnaround by imposing the mask on people over 13 in all enclosed spaces, while the pandemic has already claimed 6,721 victims in the kingdom of 17 million inhabitants.
This new strategy of partial containment
which is accompanied by the closure of bars and restaurants for at least one month, will hurt, but it’s the only solution ”,
said Mark Rutte. In the country of sacrosanct individual freedoms, the overcrowding of hospitals was due to the broad rejection of the wearing of masks expressed by the population.
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