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Before the next federal-state round on Wednesday, the districts are pushing for a regional opening strategy.

"The first steps in opening up in individual counties can be justified," said Reinhard Sager, President of the German County Association, WELT AM SONNTAG.

The federal government and prime minister would have to take a closer look at the corona situation on site.

“We cannot wait until the values ​​within a federal state or even in the entire federal area are so low that opening measures can be justified everywhere.

The regional differences are simply too great for that, ”said Sager.

Neighboring municipalities and federal states should coordinate so that the opening steps were coordinated, said Sager.

A certain amount of shopping tourism cannot be prevented in all cases, but that would also not be proportionate.

Sober behavior of the population is crucial

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"You can neither control the boundaries of a county nor oblige the owners of shops to only serve the local population," said Sager.

In a regional opening, it is crucial that the population behave in a level-headed manner.

In any case, compliance with the AHA regulation and the hygiene concepts in the shops would have to be maintained and monitored.

“During the pandemic, we also had to close some particularly overcrowded tourist destinations.

We don't want that, but we are always forced to do so when people lose their reason, ”said Sager.

So far, all attempts by districts and urban districts with a low incidence to reopen other areas have failed because of higher-level authorities, as a WELT-AM-SONNTAG survey shows.

A good 40 rural districts and urban districts nationwide that had an incidence value of less than 30 in the middle of the week were surveyed.

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In Bavaria in particular, a number of districts and cities have already sounded out whether they can reopen at least some of the closed businesses.

This is due to a peculiarity of the Bavarian Corona Ordinance, in which regional openings are quite possible, but only if, in addition to the district itself, the responsible administrative district also agrees.

But so far they have refused.

The districts of Aichach-Friedberg, Erlangen-Höchstadt and Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, as well as the cities of Ingolstadt and Regensburg, have failed with their opening requests.

Outside Bavaria, the districts and independent cities of Freudenstadt, Kusel, Münster, Pirmasens, Rotenburg an der Wümme and Stade are among the proponents of openings.

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Source: Welt am Sonntag