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According to Chancellery Minister Helge Braun (CDU), German citizens may have to be prepared for restrictions due to the corona pandemic until March.
“There are difficult winter months ahead of us.
That goes until March, "said Braun on Thursday in the RTL program" Good Morning Germany ".
More people could likely be vaccinated after March, and with spring it will be easier to keep infection numbers down.
"But this restraint, which we all have to show, will also accompany us in January, February and March and possibly also restrictive measures if our individual behavior is not sufficient," emphasized Braun.
He defended the tightening of contact requirements agreed on Wednesday between the federal and state governments and at the same time affirmed that hotels and restaurants will remain closed over Christmas.
The agreement that has now been reached is initially valid until December 20.
"But we are assuming that we will have to extend it into January," Braun told RTL.
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However, the Chancellery Minister sees regionally significant scope for relaxation in the case of significantly falling infection numbers.
“I think that's acceptable,” said Braun in the ARD “Morgenmagazin” with a view to the special route announced by Schleswig-Holstein.
Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania have falling infection numbers.
This could be relaxed at one point or another.
It is important that everyone “pulls together with the big questions” and that there are tightening where the number of infections increases significantly, said Braun.
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