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Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow has spoken out in favor of even more far-reaching restrictions in the fight against the corona virus.
“We finally have to go into a real lockdown,” said the left-wing politician of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” on Friday.
He is annoyed that he was not ready to use December with its many public holidays for a nationwide break.
"Anything that is not vital or that cannot be systemically turned off should have been stopped for four weeks," said Ramelow.
A permanent extension of individual measures, which overall did not lead to the virus drying out, is an expensive and wrong way.
Ramelow also criticized the inequality of the previous measures, for which only restaurateurs, hoteliers, artists and self-employed, showmen and all children would be held responsible in order to avert a pandemic - but the entire further economy pretended to be nothing.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) predicted the sharp increase in the number of infections back in October.
"The Chancellor was right and I was wrong," said Ramelow looking back.
The Thuringian state chief had long resisted particularly tough measures in the pandemic.
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