Armin Laschet (CDU), had spoken as early as no other Prime Minister for easing the Corona restrictions. Also in the Union, especially in the CSU, Markus Söder, a lot of people thought its course is risky, because when dealing with the Virus unchanged caution was needed. The criticism of Laschet doldrums in the meantime, from. It had to do with the sharp decline of new infections, but also that several countries, heads of different Kinds, such as those from Saxony, Rhineland-Palatinate, Thuringia and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, North Rhine-Westphalia’s Minister-President, when you Loosen easily outdated.
Pure Burger
Political correspondent in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Now Laschet can finally take no more as the biggest Looser of the Nation apply. As the first Prime Minister he had to announce on Tuesday a large-scale Lockdown for a County. Is affected the district of Gütersloh, where it has come in the cutting operation of the large slaughterhouse Tönnies to a Corona mass outbreak, with more than 1500 Infected. Is Laschet also the first Prime Minister, the implements, to which the Federation and the Länder in your back Loosening the summit had agreed: In country circles, in which in each of the past seven days, per 100,000 population, more than 50 new infections were registered, to apply stricter restrictions.
It is a unique feature, the Laschet in the morning, addressed in the state Chancellery in Düsseldorf, amazingly offensive. Unlike in cases of other local or regional infection is an entire district because of the Corona-infection activity clusters in Thuringia and lower Saxony will, for the first time in Germany “on the strict protection measures, which until a few weeks ago, in the whole of the Federal Republic of Germany”, – said the Prime Minister.