In fact, the emergency brake is supposed to reactivate the February lockdown rules which limited contacts to one person outside one’s own household, which is what Hamburg has done (see below). Söder also confirmed that schools will stay open in regions with a 7-day incidence below 100. State leader leader Volker Bouffier will give further details later on Tuesday. But state leader Wilfried Kretschmann said that there were still “legal issues to sort out” on this point. He also hinted on Tuesday that he might take the power to decide on whether to pull the emergency brake away from local governments – and take control himself.

Source: The Local March 23, 2021 16:18 UTC