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Berlin (dpa) - Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder has welcomed the advance of his North Rhine-Westphalian colleague, CDU boss Armin Laschet, for a two to three-week hard lockdown and classified it as a connection to his own positions.

It is important to get out of the loop through very consistent management in combating the corona pandemic.

"I have actually always represented this thesis, if I may put it that way, and so has the Chancellor," said the CSU chairman and obvious competitor Laschets in the race for the Union parties' candidacy for chancellor.

"Everyone who participates - I think it's great because it strengthens the basis of those who advocate caution and caution."

Söder expressed himself in the recorded ZDF program “Markus Lanz”, the excerpt was shown in advance on Tuesday evening by “Today Journal”.

Laschet had proposed on Easter Monday that a "bridge lockdown" be adopted in the fight against the third corona wave.

This should bridge the time until many people are vaccinated.

It is necessary to push the seven-day incidence below 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in a renewed "effort".

"It's about two or three weeks."

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