That’s it for the festive mood – that Corona-Reality has us again.
Several federal states are already closing and setting them Resolutions of the Corona summit just before Christmas at. Means: contact restrictions also for Vaccinated, no major events, clubs and discos are closed and firecrackers are prohibited on New Year’s Eve.
From Monday (December 27), stricter rules will apply in Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Some federal states had already started this at Christmas, others are now following suit. According to the decision, the rest of the federal states will follow by tomorrow, Tuesday at the latest.
Even the recently falling number of cases in Germany is of no use:
In whole Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania For example, cinemas, theaters, museums, the interiors of zoos, swimming pools and other leisure facilities must remain closed across the board. So far, these restrictions have only applied in the middle and east of the country. However, since the corona traffic light for the country was red for several days and another wave of infections is expected with the Omikron variant, the state government had ordered the closings nationwide.
In Brandenburg There is also an upper limit of ten people who have been vaccinated and recovered at private indoor or outdoor meetings – initially until January 11th. If there is someone in a household without a corona vaccination, the existing rules remain unchanged: Only up to two people from another household are allowed to attend private meetings, children under 14 years are not counted.
Also in Lower Saxony Only groups of up to ten vaccinated and recovered people are allowed to meet – not counting children.
In Baden-Wuerttemberg From this Monday, there is a curfew in the gastronomy from 10.30 p.m. to 5 a.m. On New Year’s Eve, curfew does not begin until 1.00 a.m.
The Christmas holidays in Germany were anything but corona-free. While vaccination continued in the vaccination centers and during special campaigns, opponents of the restrictions took to the streets.
On Christmas Day, several hundred people protested against Corona regulations in Berlin and Schweinfurt. Further demonstrations have been registered in several cities in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Brandenburg as well as in Mannheim in Baden-Württemberg.
Thanks to the vaccinations on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, Germany achieved its goal of 30 million vaccinations by Christmas. “The booster campaign is a great success for Germany. I would like to thank everyone who participates, “said Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (58, SPD) to BILD.
His goal for the end of January: Once again fill up the 30 million with first, second and booster vaccinations in order to reduce the risk of an omicron wave to a minimum.
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