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There will be no prime ministerial conference with Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) in the coming week, said the deputy government spokeswoman Ulrike Demmer on Friday in Berlin.
Because of the differences among the federal states, the federal government wants to instead gain competencies in combating corona.
"The federal government intends to launch a draft law next week in close agreement with the federal states and the Bundestag, which provides for a directly binding and comprehensive emergency brake for districts with an incidence of 100 or more," the news agency Reuters learned on Friday from government circles.
Below an incidence of 100, the existing resolutions of the Prime Minister's Conference should continue to apply and the Länder should thus retain their competence.
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) also called for a nationwide regulation, since there are apparently completely wrong assessments of the situation among the Prime Minister.
Both Spahn and the President of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, warned that Germany was in a dire situation.
The intensive care units would continue to fill in the coming weeks, said Wieler.
The number of infections had to be reduced significantly, they had been deceptive in the past few days.
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In his criticism, Spahn explicitly excluded North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) and his Bavarian colleague Markus Söder (CSU), both of whom had called for a short hard lockdown.
You have to shut down "two or three weeks" in a lockdown to push the incidence numbers below 100.
The situation reminds him of October 2020, when some countries also did not recognize the seriousness of the situation, said Spahn.