Bookings are abundant: If it is up to the landlords of holiday apartments and the operators of campsites, contactless holidays could come right away. (Mohssen Assanimoghaddam / dpa)
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The federal and state governments have extended the lockdown until April 18. In view of the drastically increasing number of corona infections, the federal and state governments are sending all of Germany into the sharpest lockdown since the beginning of the corona pandemic a year ago. Public, private and economic life is to be largely shut down over Easter
Inland tourism will not be possible during the Easter holidays either. Hotels and other accommodation providers should remain closed to vacationers. This point caused a lot of trouble in the deliberations. Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony-Anhalt and Rhineland-Palatinate insisted that their citizens should be able to vacation in holiday flats, holiday homes, apartments, caravans and mobile homes, provided they have their own sanitary facilities and organize their own meals can be.
After a long break on Monday evening, the meeting went on late into the night. Bremen’s Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte (SPD) canceled an originally planned press conference late in the evening.