The federal and state governments want to take decisions on additional corona measures at a Prime Minister's Conference (MPK) on Thursday.
After more than three hours of deliberations, the managing chancellor Angela Merkel, her designated successor Olaf Scholz and the 16 prime ministers agreed to bring forward the MPK, which was actually planned for December 9, because of the high number of new corona infections and the increasing problems in the hospitals.
Merkel and Scholz had previously presented the new Corona crisis team in the Chancellery.
While the Union and green-led federal states had already insisted on decisions on Tuesday, the SPD side had emphasized that it was an informal switch.
However, both Scholz and the Union side made specific suggestions for further corona measures.
The SPD politician and the Union countries proposed a general vaccination requirement, which Scholz wants to have implemented by the end of February.
He also advocated a 2-G obligation in retail.
The Union and green-led federal states also proposed a nationwide uniform implementation of new corona measures, for example for the closure of bars and clubs or audience limits for major events as well as drastic contact restrictions for unvaccinated people.
After the round in politics, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder now sees "actually a great deal of unity". The traffic light parties and especially the designated new Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz had moved. “It went better than I thought,” says Söder. "A lot has progressed, and Olaf Scholz has played his part in that." He reported on a good and productive conversation. "We are heading in the right direction," says the CSU politician. Progress has been made on the subject of general vaccination requirements. Scholz had also given the promise that the old regulations in the Infection Protection Act could be applied beyond December 15.
Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer confirmed that the Prime Minister's Conference will be discussed again this week by the federal and state governments.
Then the decision will be made that games in the Bundesliga would be played without spectators, says Kretschmer.