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Berlin (dpa / bb) - The course of the red-red-green Senate in the corona pandemic has also met with criticism from within its own ranks.
The resolutions from the weekend were “smart measures”, but were not enough to break the third wave, said the Green's top candidate for the House of Representatives, Bettina Jarasch, on Monday.
Additional measures are necessary.
"The possible steps are on the table: the renewed closure of individual areas in business life, stricter contact restrictions and the possibility of extending the school holidays," says Jarasch.
Nothing should be taboo in the debate about how to proceed.
The health policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, Thomas Isenberg, called on the Senate to implement the “emergency brake” agreed by the federal and state governments in the event of high numbers of infections.
"It is time for the Senate to finally pull the emergency brake, better the day before yesterday than today," he said.
"Now we really need an emergency stop - so unfortunately a curfew."
If the prime ministers of the federal states do not act here, the federal government must intervene.
The so-called emergency brake was decided by the federal and state governments at the beginning of March and only expressly confirmed last Tuesday.
According to this, the easing of the last few weeks would have to be reversed if the incidence shows more than 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days.
In Berlin, the value is now well above this threshold.
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Nevertheless, the Senate is not relying on this kind of “emergency brake”, but rather on a Berlin route with a dual strategy: cautious easing in trade and culture, for example, remains.
However, they are supplemented by stricter rules, especially for testing and the mask requirement.
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