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Rostock (dpa / mv) - The Hanseatic city of Rostock could, according to the will of Lord Mayor Claus Ruhe Madsen (non-party), be a model for a different way of dealing with the corona pandemic.
Because of the very low level of infection in Rostock, he advocated open restaurants, stadiums, schools and shops under certain conditions.
But there should be strict contact bans in the private sector.
As he told the "Ostsee-Zeitung" (Monday), the closings meant that people met privately and without hygiene concepts.
However, encounters in restaurants, for example, could be better tracked.
«We have turned off the light and can no longer see a lot.
It's dangerous, ”said Madsen.
With an average of 29.6 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days, Rostock was on Monday morning third from last in the RKI table of all independent cities and districts.
However, the Hanseatic city had the lowest seven-day incidence nationwide for several days in the recent past.
At the request of the German Press Agency, government spokesman Andreas Timm said that there was no scope for loosening the current number of infections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
All decisions are regularly discussed and decided in the so-called MV summit, in which Madsen also takes part.
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Madsen sees the reasons for the persistently low incidence from the start of the pandemic in the longer preparation time compared to Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg, for example.
"We used this time consistently," said Madsen of the dpa.
"That is why we may have fewer undiscovered, symptom-free infections that have spread since the first wave."
All sources of infection could have been traced, the health department had been reinforced and compliance with the protective measures applicable in each case was regularly checked.
The common task for the coming weeks is to “stay coldspot”.