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Berlin's mayor Michael Müller has issued a nationwide uniform curfew and an obligation to wear FFP2 masks.

The states wanted to regulate curfews individually depending on the number of infections - surgical masks also offer more protection than simple cloth masks, emphasized Müller in the ZDF morning magazine.

According to Berlin's Mayor Michael Müller, measures to implement more home offices are the focus of the federal-state meeting at noon.

The SPD politician said on ZDF that there was a clear need to be sharpened in economic life.

“That really hurts because we of course also know what situation the companies are in.” The fact that there were significantly fewer people on the streets during the first lockdown in March and April than now shows, however, that there is still room for maneuver.

The federal states would propose to “reverse” the so-called presence requirement: Employers would have to justify why their employees should come to the office.

The FDP chairman Christian Lindner has also spoken out against a blanket exit ban in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

"Curfews could be an instrument where we have massively increasing case numbers, the situation is completely out of control," says Lindner in the ARD morning magazine.

In other regions where the number of corona cases is low, the means of the curfew is disproportionate.

"I consider the curfew, the real restriction of freedom, to be a disproportionately sharp means."

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From the point of view of the EU Commission, 70 percent of adults in the European Union should be vaccinated against the coronavirus by the summer.

The Brussels authority wants to publish the proposal on Tuesday, as the German press agency learned in advance.

By March, the interim goal is to immunize 80 percent of people over 80 years of age and health care workers.

According to dpa information, the goals are part of a discussion paper for the EU video summit on Thursday.

There, Chancellor Angela Merkel and the other heads of state and government should also discuss the question of whether there should be an EU vaccination certificate and any associated privileges, according to the will of Council Chairman Charles Michel.

There is a critical discussion about this in Germany.

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