Munich (dpa / lby) – In view of rising corona numbers, the Bavarian cabinet wants to advise on Tuesday (10:00 a.m.) on the further course in the fight against the virus. It is about the implementation of the federal-state resolutions from the night with a view to Easter. The state parliament will then be the first national parliament to commemorate the almost 13,000 deaths of the corona pandemic in the Free State.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and the prime ministers of the federal states had agreed on the short but sharpest lockdown since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago after around twelve hours of deliberations. From April 1 to April 5 inclusive, i.e. from Maundy Thursday to Easter Monday, public, economic and private life is to be largely shut down in order to break the third wave of the pandemic. The lockdown to combat the corona pandemic will be extended to April 18.
Maundy Thursday and Holy Saturday are therefore defined as rest days. “The principle #WirBleibenZuHause applies for five consecutive days,” says the decision. The food trade in the strict sense of the word should only remain open on Holy Saturday. Private gatherings should be limited to your own household and one other household, but no more than five people. Children up to 14 years are not counted. Couples are considered to be one household.
Söder described the planned shutdown of public life over the Easter days as a good and necessary step. “We have de facto the Easter lockdown,” said Söder on Tuesday morning. The aim is to take speed out of the pandemic.
“We know that Corona is heavy as lead over the country,” said Söder. But you are now in the most difficult phase of the pandemic. Many underestimated the current situation. But you shouldn’t make any mistakes now. It is now up to you to end the third wave faster than the previous one. “Impatience must not become our weakness,” warned the CSU chairman.
The President of the State Parliament Ilse Aigner and Söder will speak at the joint funeral of the State Parliament and the State Government in the afternoon, as will the chairwoman of the Bavarian Ethics Council and former regional bishop, Susanne Breit-Keßler. Mourning flags are ordered for all government offices, and at 2.30 p.m. the dead are to be commemorated with a nationwide minute’s silence.
A central memorial act is to take place nationwide on April 18. This goes back to the initiative of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier. According to the Robert Koch Institute, more than 74,000 people have died in connection with the corona virus across Germany since the pandemic began around a year ago (as of Monday, 3:28 a.m.).
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