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The federal-state conference will decide on Monday whether the lockdown should be extended until April 18.
In the template published yesterday by the Federal Chancellery for the summit on coronavirus containment, there are other measures in addition to the extension.
There should be night curfews in regions that exceed the incidence value of 100.
Anne Will discussed with her guests the increasing number of infections, the vaccination strategy and the upcoming, presumably tightened lockdown.
In the studio sat the member of the Bundestag and doctor Janosch Dahmen (Greens), Ulrich Weigeldt (Federal Chairman of the German Association of General Practitioners) and political editor Samiha Shafy (“Die Zeit”).
Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki (FDP) and Manuela Schwesig (SPD), Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 2017, were connected live.
The submission and the extended lockdown
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On Sunday, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants rose nationwide to 103.9 within seven days.
The incidence value thus passed an important political mark.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had spoken of an emergency brake that would then have to be pulled.
The conference of the Chancellor and Prime Minister of the 16 federal states offers the opportunity to do this today.
The draft decision of the Chancellery was published in advance.
Accordingly, the easing should be withdrawn since March 7th, should the incidence value exceed 100.
This means, for example, hairdressers and retail should then close - and schools and day-care centers are also threatened with closure.
A night curfew is also listed as part of the emergency brake in the template.
Prime Minister Schwesig thinks the emergency brake is the right one.
“The curfew has actually already existed and has been discussed in districts.” Mitterteich imposed a temporary curfew in the Upper Palatinate last year.
“Ultimately, however, this cannot be decided across the board,” said Schwesig, referring to the federal-state conference.
"The districts have to justify this explicitly."
Member of the Bundestag, Dahmen, calls for the federal government to crack down on cracks.
"We will have to go back to openings that we have already made," said the green.
"Hairdressers, hardware stores, close everything again."
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For the journalist Shafy, Germany is acting too discouraged in the fight against the corona virus.
"Unfortunately, an emergency brake is not a strategy." Curfews and rapid tests are ultimately just crutches.
What is missing is what would really help out of the pandemic: rapid vaccination.
The head of the general practitioner association Weigeldt said: "I think the tough lockdown will not get us any further."
"We have to take differentiated and intelligent measures."
Measures against the third wave of coronavirus
In autumn 2020 everyone had the vaccine in sight and lost sight of all other measures, said Dahmen.
"For a dam against the third wave, we would have needed more rapid tests, working contact tracking and a stricter mask requirement," he said.
"We're paying the price now."
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More than 120 measures by the federal states due to the corona virus have already been collected by the courts, said FDP man Kubicki.
“The lockdown obviously doesn't help.
So far I don't see that the three previous ones have brought anything. "
Schwesig describes the vaccines as the most important weapon.
“But that's not enough at the moment.
The day will come, probably in summer, when we will have a lot of vaccine.
Then everyone has to be involved. ”General practitioners, specialists and the vaccination centers.
Until then, the German citizens would have to be equipped with rapid tests.
Human medicine specialist Weigeldt: "We have to make vaccination easy and not discuss much."
Involve family doctors immediately
So far, vaccination with the three vaccines from Biontech, Moderna and AstraZeneca has not worked well in Germany.
Missing vaccine, slow implementation of the previous vaccination strategy to vaccinate those over 80 years of age.
After Easter, 50,000 general practitioners are to vaccinate in addition to the vaccination centers.
Weigeldt: "Why so late?"
“The patients stand in our practices and ask: Why can't I be vaccinated here.
There is no objective reason to prioritize the vaccination centers, ”criticizes the head of the family doctors' association.
Model tests in various rural districts have shown that vaccination by general practitioners was possible without problems and not to the detriment of the patient.
"We now have to go into 24/7 mode and should have included the general practitioners' practices from the start," said Dahmen.
Anyone who comes to the prostate examination must be vaccinated at the same time.
“More than three million vaccine doses were stored in the refrigerator for many weeks.
We have to pick up the pace and get away from German bureaucracy. "
For Kubicki, the Standing Committee's prioritization that the elders should be vaccinated first is too rigid.
The family doctor must freely decide who should be vaccinated first.
Weigeldt agreed: “Doctors can proceed in a more differentiated manner than a rigid vaccination strategy dictates.” He considers possible corruption and pretending to be absurd.
Are schools and daycare centers about to close again?
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"School closings have an efficiency gain of 30 percent downwards, with open schools the incidence increases accordingly," explained Dahmen.
Prime Minister Schwesig did not want to leave the statement: “I cannot confirm that 30 percent come from schools and daycare centers.” Kubicki also countered: “Children can be infectious.
But schools are not pandemic drivers. "
All those in discussion called for a faster vaccination in Germany.
Shafy added that Germany must also help vaccinate the world's population.
"Otherwise it can happen that the mutants continue to mutate and then come back to us," said the journalist.
It is not yet possible to say whether the vaccines will also work on the mutants.
With the Brazilian mutation recently detected in Mallorca, some vaccines may not work well enough.