The countries are pursuing these easing before the Corona summit

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Daniel Günther, Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein, thinks it is conceivable to enable domestic trips to those citizens who can prove their corona vaccination with a vaccination certificate.

“I can definitely imagine that,” said the CDU politician in the RTL / ntv program “Frühstart” on Friday.

“Anyway, I believe that openings in this area are only possible if we make certain restrictions,” he continued.

He described the European vaccination certificate planned by the EU as a useful instrument.

As soon as a vaccination offer has been made to all citizens, one can take responsibility for further opening steps with the help of such a passport.

The Prime Minister spoke out in favor of linking easing with the use of rapid tests.

"If the rapid tests are now all allowed, if that is easy to handle, that can definitely be a way of making further opening steps possible at all."

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Before the next federal-state round on Wednesday, Günther called for the retail trade to be relaxed, as agreed.

“The retail trade is the area that can now also be opened earlier.” If the number of infections is not quite that low, stores cannot open completely yet, but offer shopping by appointment, for example.

The Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer (SPD), expects the federal-state switch on Wednesday to provide a perspective for easing the lockdown that is linked to the rapid tests.

Dreyer said on Friday morning in an online switch of the council of elders of the state parliament in Mainz that she is aiming for a perspective for outdoor catering as early as March and for the Easter vacation in hotels, holiday apartments and campsites.

"It's about making it clear, in steps, how one can imagine an opening perspective." Body-hugging services with a mask, such as cosmetics, outdoor sports with distances, especially for smaller children, Dreyer cited as examples.

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After the schools, the state government also wants to take well-considered steps towards loosening up culture, sport, group camps, gastronomy and trade, Dreyer announced.

She was "cautiously confident" that on March 3, the federal-state switch would come to joint solutions and further opening steps could be agreed - also with regard to the contact restrictions.

Currently, two families cannot go for walks with their children together.

“This is now very strange.” It makes sense to allow two households to meet with a maximum of five people again, not counting the children.

However, priority is given to education.

After elementary schools, alternating classes are expected to begin in the fifth and sixth grades on March 8th.

All other classes should follow from March 15th.

The Council of Ministers should decide on a corresponding proposal on Friday.

The elementary schools have been taking alternating lessons since the beginning of this week, the other classes still have distance learning.

The Easter holidays start on March 27th.

The daycare centers should initially continue to operate regularly if there is an urgent need.

Dreyer announced that the state government will deal with the question next week “with a view to the need, the tests and the vaccination quota”.

Educators as well as elementary school and special school teachers can be vaccinated against the coronavirus from Monday.

To do this, they have to register online in the country's vaccination pool from this Saturday.

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In view of the spread of the more contagious British coronavirus variant B117, Lower Saxony is considering an extension of the quarantine period for infected people and closest contacts.

As is currently the case in the Leer district, it could then take three weeks instead of just two weeks, said the spokesman for the Ministry of Health, Oliver Grimm, on Friday in Hanover.

Lower Saxony starts vaccinations for the second priority group

"We are considering." Regional levels are also conceivable, depending on how severely rural districts are affected.

Evidence as to whether an infection can actually be attributed to the mutant should not be collected.

Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) is relying on a double strategy of vaccinations and corona tests with a view to possible easing, said Poerksen.

According to the Ministry of Health, the vaccination rate in the country is currently 4.3 percent.

Weil said the "Braunschweiger Zeitung" (Friday), by the end of September all people in Lower Saxony should have received a vaccination offer.

“We should be through with the approximately 850,000 people in the first prioritization group by mid-April.

We are now gradually starting to vaccinate people who are younger than 65 years and belong to the second priority group. "

This included people who worked in inpatient facilities for people with disabilities or in outpatient care services, and "hopefully" also educators and all teachers, explained Weil.

Poerksen said that the country attaches great importance to making progress here, also with regard to the British mutant. The mutant would also infect children in the daycare centers more easily and thus their contact persons. With the advancement of further groups in the prioritization, there are no leftover quantities of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the country that cannot be "sold". “AstraZeneca is also not an unlimited good,” emphasized Pörksen.