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Düsseldorf / Duisburg (dpa / lnw) - NRW Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) continues to reject state-wide exit restrictions in NRW despite the increasingly louder demands for a tough lockdown.
The legal hurdles for such measures would be “very, very high”, said the NRW Minister on Thursday in the WDR, “we also have to think of the people who live in small rental apartments with many people”.
The Prime Ministers of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, Markus Söder (CSU) and Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) also wrote a joint letter to their 14 Prime Minister colleagues about a strict anti-corona policy with consistent implementation of the emergency brake in hotspots with nightly exit restrictions required.
In a letter to the Chancellor, Duisburg's Lord Mayor Sören Link (SPD) also advocates a nationwide and nationwide hard lockdown.
In metropolitan areas such as the Ruhr area, local lockdowns and exit restrictions in only isolated cities are not promising, writes Link.
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"With the previous measures, however, it no longer seems possible to stop the rising number of new infections and the massive increase in the 7-day incidence," writes the mayor of the city of 501,000.
In North Rhine-Westphalia there have only been temporary nocturnal exit restrictions with high incidence values in individual districts or cities.
The courts had previously dismissed lawsuits against such local requirements, for example in Oberhausen and in the Gütersloh district.
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WDR interview Laumann