The second corona lockdown will take effect on Monday. Doctors and entrepreneurs doubt whether it will bring anything.
Magdeburg l Holger Fischer, general practitioner in Quedlinburg, thinks the second closure is wrong. “We will not solve the problem with that.” Instead of a general lockdown, Fischer calls for targeted protection of people at risk. “Why shouldn’t older people have their own shopping times?” Rapid tests are also necessary.
Burkhard John, head of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Saxony-Anhalt, on the other hand, supports the lockdown. “We need it now, otherwise we run the risk that our clinical capacities will be exhausted in the foreseeable future.”
“Again in short-time work”
Entrepreneurs consider the renewed area-wide closings to be far exaggerated. Michael Wiecker, restaurateur in Wernigerode, says: “I am shocked by the fate that hits my employees. Shortly before Christmas they have to go back to short-time work. ”He also believes that the lockdown will be met with incomprehension. “How can you explain to people that they are allowed to queue in the drugstore, but are not allowed to drink coffee in the café across the street at a table that is far away from others?” is. “Many will forego Christmas parties,” says Matthias Nawroth, head of the Ratskeller Magdeburg. The December sales, however, cover the months of January and February.
Some landlords are again considering a lawsuit against the accommodation ban, which the courts had already overturned. “Judges tapped the state on the fingers, but it doesn’t give a damn,” says lawyer Ulrich Biermanski. “I find that terrifying”. He represents a landlord of holiday apartments in Naumburg who had already successfully sued the ban once.
CDU puts Haseloff under pressure
Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) also received pressure from the CDU parliamentary group. The fact that he turned to the hard line, “that surprised us,” says CDU parliamentary deputy Ulrich Thomas. Haseloff was asked by the parliamentary group to lift the lockdown in Saxony-Anhalt in two and not four weeks if the numbers fall. “Because the trade will also suffer when restaurants close,” warns Ulrich. So that the aid (75% of the loss in sales is borne by the federal government) flow faster than in the spring, he suggests that the state pre-finance the money. The state parliament, which is expected to meet for a special session on Tuesday, will also debate this. The left and AfD have applied. Haseloff wants to make a government statement there.
Yesterday the cabinet agreed on the new bans. The entire containment ordinance should be online from midnight on Monday.
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