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The SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach has praised the exit restriction decided by the Hamburg Senate to contain the corona pandemic as exemplary.

"I expressly welcome the curfew in Hamburg," he tweeted after a corresponding decision by the red-green state government.

"This is a courageous step that can save Hamburgers a lot of serious Covid cases and avoid a much harder and longer lockdown later." Other countries should follow suit.

In Hamburg, from Good Friday between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m., only those who have a valid reason are allowed to go out on the street.

Violations should be punished with a fine of at least 150 euros.

In Bremen, where the incidence is over 100, the situation is viewed somewhat differently.

SPD Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte told WELT: “On the one hand, the effect of curfews is often overestimated; on the other hand, the principle of proportionality requires that all milder measures to combat pandemics be exhausted first.

A curfew really has to be the very last resort.

For example, I have long advocated that companies should be legally obliged by the federal government to offer their employees a quick test once or twice a week. ”But if you didn't even dare to implement such a comparatively mild measure, Bovenschulte continued "How can you then justify locking people up in their homes across the board?"

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For the Green parliamentary group leader in the Hamburg citizenship, this is apparently not even planned in Hamburg.

She wrote on Twitter: “There are still no curfews in Hamburg.

There are restrictions stating that meetings should not take place outside at night.

You are free to decide to stay outside at night ”- which should hardly correspond to the spirit of the Senate resolution.

Young people celebrate on the Alsterwiesen

The Hamburg police, meanwhile, had a lot to do before the exit restrictions came into force on Friday evening.

On Wednesday evening, young people gathered on the Alsterwiesen to celebrate together - when the officers wanted to break up the groups, there was a kind of cat-and-mouse game between the police and the young people.

But around 10 p.m. it was quiet.