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In Corona hotspots in the southwest, citizens will in future only be allowed to leave the house at night with valid reasons.
The Baden-Württemberg state government agreed on Thursday on night-time exit restrictions in circles with more than 200 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week, as the state ministry announced.
The Ministry of Social Affairs wants to regulate the details in a decree.
Exceptions apply, for example, to medical emergencies or for work reasons.
The decree should also regulate further restrictions in the hotspot areas, such as event bans.
In Mannheim, Pforzheim, Heilbronn and three other districts, the so-called seven-day incidence value, i.e. the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within one week, is currently above the 200 mark.
The Lord Mayor of Mannheim, Peter Kurz (SPD), had previously announced nightly exit restrictions for his city due to the escalating number of corona infections.
These should come into force on Friday evening and apply for eight days between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m.
To leave the house you then need “valid reasons”, which you have to be able to make credible during an inspection.
According to Kurz, this includes professional activities.
The police are planning mobile and stationary controls in Mannheim.
The forces would be "massively strengthened" for the controls.
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