Reutlingen (dpa) - The nationwide lockdown will come, according to the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, before Christmas.

"As it turns out, the hard lockdown will come before Christmas and not just after that," said Kretschmann on Saturday at the Greens state party conference in Reutlingen, referring to a Corona switch with other Prime Minister and Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The Prime Minister's Conference on this Sunday for the Corona crisis was prepared there on Saturday morning.

Kretschmann emphasized that people had to be prepared for the fact that next week social and economic life would be shut down as much as possible.