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Curfews to contain the corona pandemic are already in place in some places, others, such as the Prime Minister of Saarland, Tobias Hans (CDU), see them only as an "ultima ratio" that should not be ordered lightly.

They are talking all over the country.

And at the same time, resistance to the idea is growing - the encroachment on civil liberties is too great, the proven broad benefit too little.

Leading aerosol researchers had recently written an open letter directly to the federal government demanding a change of course - the virus is far less likely to spread outside than indoors and curfews are therefore less ineffective.

The “currently discussed curfews” are a sign of “misleading communication” and promise “more than they can deliver”.

They also did not prevent meetings indoors, but increased the motivation “to evade government orders even more.

The reduction of problematic contacts indoors is therefore only possible with convincing arguments for successful self-protection.

The plans also met with broad rejection in the Berlin House of Representatives.

Both the government factions of the Left and the Greens as well as the AfD and FDP rejected such an approach as disproportionate and presumably ineffective as part of a nationwide Corona “emergency brake” at the request of the German Press Agency.

They also doubt whether compliance with such a rule can actually be checked in Berlin.

In response to pressure from Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), changes to the Infection Protection Act at the federal level are intended to adopt uniform regulations for an "emergency brake" in view of increasing corona numbers.

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