Basic restrictions – like mandatory masks on public transport and in health settings will remain – as well as a ‘hotspot’ mechanism for bringing in tougher rules in areas where Covid cases build up. It came as the German government gets set to drop almost all Covid measures on March 20th. The Chancellor held talks with German state leaders on Thursday to discuss the pandemic, as well as the war in Ukraine and how Germany can better manage and support refugees having to flee their homes. He told ARD television that he does not consider further restrictions to be necessary as early as Christmas, but that “we won’t be able to have the big New Year’s Eve bash”. North Rhine-Westphalia’s state premier and chairman of the Conference of Minister Presidents, Hendrik Wüst (CDU), sees the prospect of tighter contact restrictions coming in around the turn of the year. However, he also urged people to restrict Christmas celebrations to small family circles and to keep taking tests. One possible scenario would be a well-planned lockdown in early January,” he said. “Given the extremely high transmissibility of Omicron, we will probably not be able to avoid a lockdown after Christmas. Green Party health politician Janosch Dahmen also stated that a lockdown will not come into force until after the holidays. READ ALSO: Hold Christmas parties in Germany online to stave off Omicron, says RKI On Sunday, German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach ruled out a lockdown before Christmas, telling the news a German broadcaster: “No, a lockdown – like in the Netherlands, before Christmas – we will not have that here”. As the federal and state governments are firstly meeting on Tuesday, December 21st to discuss further restrictions, it is unlikely that lockdown measures will be brought before December 25th.
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