Many countries are sceptical, Come areas of the travel bans for German risk?

In the discussion about possible exit lock for regions with a high Corona-infection numbers, there are more discrepancies between individual countries and the Federal government. For Wednesday planned switching of a conference between the Chancellor’s office Minister Helge Braun (CDU) and the state Chancellery, the heads will now take place on Thursday morning.

Alexander Haneke

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criticism of the plans came on Wednesday from several of the country’s main cities. Saxony’s Prime Minister, Michael Kretschmer (CDU), wrote on Twitter that he could “imagine a scenario in which we occupy a whole district with a ban on Leaving”. Saxony-Anhalt’s Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU), said on Wednesday in the ZDF morning magazine, he can still see “urgent discussion”.

the Background to the dispute is to replace the idea of the existing Accommodation restrictions for people from high-risk areas through a common system of exit bans. After the Corona mass outbreak in the country Gütersloh circles and were village had adopted in June, several countries, the accommodation of bans for people from the risk areas, to prevent spread of the Virus.

Chancellery chief brown had said on Tuesday, it will be discussed whether a departure regulation “is a better variant than when you arrive at the resort, only to be rejected”. The question was whether it would be more appropriate in the case of an outbreak, all residents of the Region at the place of residence, “to test, then there is so flat that you can say after a few days: We have discovered all of the chains of Infection.”

the support of Merkel and Seehofer

Both Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU), had pronounced on Tuesday at their Meeting in Herrenchiemsee for the idea. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert on Wednesday once again clear that the Chancellor is sympathetic to the proposal that people stay in local outbreaks only once at home. “And so long to the chains of Infection are detected, and the traveller is able to present a negative corona test.”

Critical voices came also from the local authorities. Both the German Association of cities and rural district Council were sceptical about this. The President of the district tags, Reinhard Sager, expressed with a view to the successful containment of the outbreak in Gütersloh, it is “more surgical precision than the wood hammer”.