After a day of rumours that contact restrictions could be lifted over the religious holiday, as happened at Christmas time, the announcement came as a shock. Also included in the new lockdown rules are a night time curfew in hotspots and pledge to increase testing. Scientific view: ‘very positive effect’Dirk Brockmann, an epidemiologist at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) praised the tough Easter restrictions. Given that Germany is currently is a state of exponential growth of cases, there could be up to 60,000 new infections every day in Germany without tough restrictions, he said. “Unregulated visits at Easter are fiction for most.”Many continue to live with strict visiting and contact restrictions, he said.

Source: The Local March 23, 2021 12:00 UTC