In numerous German cities, thousands of people took to the streets against Corona protective measures on Monday.

According to the police, around 3,000 people demonstrated in Cottbus.

In the south of Brandenburg there were a total of around 9,000 participants at 16 locations.

A protest march in the state capital Potsdam counted 300 opponents of corona measures.

According to the police, around 2,700 people gathered in Schwerin on Monday evening, despite the cold and slippery roads, to make their displeasure against the ongoing restrictions and plans of the federal government for mandatory vaccination clear.

Several thousand demonstrators also gathered in Rostock.

In Magdeburg, according to the first information from the police, around 3,000 people moved from Domplatz through the city.

In Halle a police spokesman spoke of around 1,500 demonstrators.

Protests against corona measures were also announced in other cities in Saxony-Anhalt.

There were also demonstrations again in numerous Thuringian locations.

In Gera alone, around 2000 people took to the streets in the evening, as a police spokeswoman said.

In neighboring Altenburg there were 1,300 people.

Several hundred people came to demonstrations in other cities.

In Freiberg in Saxony, several hundred people in various groups took to the streets.

According to the police, emergency services wanted to stop an elevator in Bautzen.

The police wrote on Twitter that they were "massively" pelted with fireworks and bottles.

In the Engelsdorf district of Leipzig, an elevator with 250 people was stopped, said a spokesman for the local police.

In the Leipzig area and northern Saxony alone, there had been around 30 calls for corona protests.

According to the police, around 1,000 people demonstrated in Saarbrücken and Fulda in Hesse.

There were protest marches in other cities in Hesse and Baden-Württemberg.

Several hundred people took to the streets in various places in Lower Saxony.

Most of them were in Wolfsburg with around 800 participants.

Several elevators also took place in Rhineland-Palatinate.

In Kaiserslautern, around 1,500 people met in different places and marched through the city center, as the police announced.

In Pirmasens, two participants in a meeting attacked emergency services.

One of the two attackers had previously been advised of the obligation to wear a mask.

Three police officers were slightly injured.

Otherwise, the actions were largely peaceful, said the West Palatinate police headquarters.

Around 1200 people gathered in Koblenz.

"There were no special incidents," said the police later that evening.

A police spokesman said in the evening that two meetings had been registered in Mainz: one of vaccination critics, at which around 150 participants were counted, and a counter-demonstration with around 60 participants.