Corona crisis: Merkel asks citizens to be patient
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People's impatience is growing. But the federal government is dampening hope for a quick relaxation of the rules in the fight against the corona virus. Chancellor Merkel reports from quarantine with a personal message.
Chancellor Angela Merkel has asked the people in Germany for further assistance in the fight against the spread of the corona virus. In a podcast, she addressed the citizens of the quarantine at home: "Nobody today can say with a clear conscience that they know how long this difficult time will last." There is still no reason to relax the rules. "I have to ask you to be patient."
Rules apply until April 20th
In view of the fact that the number of infections is still rising too rapidly, the federal government is making it clear that restrictions will remain in place for the time being - until at least April 20, i.e. one week after Easter.
In the coming week, the federal and state governments would evaluate the development of new infections. To this day, this gives no reason to consider lifting measures, said Chancellery boss Helge Braun.
So far, people across Germany have shown themselves to be predominantly insightful: Despite spring weather from the Baltic Sea to the Alps, the police only had to intervene occasionally during controls. According to police reports, the focus of the controls was on green spaces.
EU Commission is working on exit strategy
The European Commission is already working on an exit strategy for all EU states to gradually lift the exit restrictions. Together with experts, she is examining “when we could gradually loosen the social distance measures,” said Commission head Ursula von der Leyen. "We trust the advice of medical professionals, but also of business experts who are familiar with supply chains." However, no one can precisely predict a time frame today.
In order to fight the virus more effectively, every second German would have nothing against the use of cell phone data. This was the result of a survey by the opinion research institute YouGov on behalf of the dpa. According to this, 50 percent consider the location of contact persons of infected people via the location data to be useful. 38 percent found this inappropriate, 12 percent did not provide any information. (jr / dpa)
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