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Thuringia's Interior Minister Georg Maier (SPD) has spoken out against restricting the freedom of movement of citizens to a radius of 15 kilometers, as the Prime Minister agreed with the Chancellor on Tuesday to combat corona infections.

"You cannot control the restriction across the board, but only randomly," he told the editorial network Germany (RND, Wednesday).

"That's why I spoke out against it - not to mention the psychological and practical side effects of such a regulation."

Police unions had previously expressed doubts about the enforceability.

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Thuringia's Environment Minister Anja Siegesmund (Greens) told the RND: “The 15-kilometer regulation does not seem to us to be a sensible measure.” It should therefore be “only formulated as a recommendation”.

According to RND information, the regulation goes back not least to Thuringia's Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (left).

He, in turn, wanted it because citizens from Saxony had recently partially moved to Thuringia because of the restrictions there.

The federal and state governments agreed on Tuesday to extend the lockdown that has been in effect since mid-December, which includes the

closure

of

schools, daycare centers, cultural and leisure facilities, restaurants

and large parts of the

retail sector

, until January 31, and in Sharpen parts.

Members of a household object can look only with

a

not living in the household

meet person

.

People in regions where the number of infections is more than 200 per 100,000 inhabitants within a week should only

move

within a radius of

15 kilometers

from their place of residence.

Other federal states have doubts

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The controversial regulation is still up for discussion in other federal states.

So will

Niedersachsen

not implement readily actually adopted restricting the freedom of movement in hotspots.

A separate justification for proportionality is necessary, as the Higher Administrative Court has already warned about other restrictions, said Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) on Tuesday evening in Hanover.

"For us, this is part of the test program to determine whether and when the regulation is applied, preferably not at all."

Also

Baden-Wuerttemberg

considers the decision on the reinforcement of some measures against the Corona pandemic still open.

The restriction of freedom of movement in corona hotspots is not initially planned, said Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann.

“We first have to come up with reliable values ​​next week in order to make a decision.” Most recently, the number was just over 200 in only two districts in the southwest, and just below it in two others.

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Saxony-Anhalt's

state government will only decide in the coming days whether and how the range of motion in the state will be restricted to 15 kilometers around the place of residence due to the tense Corona situation.

"We have to see how we do it in practice," said Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday evening in Magdeburg.

The cabinet will examine whether such restrictions can be used in addition to the prevailing infection situation at the place of origin and those at the destination.

The aim must be to actually exclude all avoidable activities.