Covid today Germany, curfew and 2G plus are coming: the rules of the Laender

Faced with the dizzying increase in Covid infections in Germany, some Laender today announced the introduction of the 2G rule, the adoption of a curfew and the use of distance learning. The Berlin regional government, reports the Dpa, has agreed to resort to the restrictions imposed by the 2G rule, which limits access to retail businesses only to vaccinated or cured, with the exception of shops that sell pre-owned goods need and pharmacies. The Hamburg government has decided to extend the same rule to hotels, theaters and cinemas. “We will eliminate compulsory attendance in the school sector,” announced the head of Education in Brandenburg Land, Britta Ernst, explaining that many parents do not want their children to attend given the increase in cases. In North Rhine-Westphalia, the 2G plus rule will apply, i.e. entry into discos and clubs only to vaccinated or cured people in possession of a recent negative test. Thuringia goes further and closes clubs, bars and discos, bans Christmas markets and from tomorrow imposes a curfew starting at 10pm for the catering sector and between 10pm and 5am for the unvaccinated, to which rules will also apply. restrictive in contacts. The owner of the Health of the Land, Heike Werner, announced that in Germany there was a new record in the weekly incidence rate of infections: according to the Robert Koch Institute, today for every 100 thousand inhabitants there are 399.8 cases, against 312.4 in yesterday. In the last 24 hours, 45,326 cases and 309 deaths have been recorded, for a total of 5,430,911 infections and 99,433 deaths respectively from the beginning of the pandemic.