First children’s sports, then museums and retail: How the Berlin Senate wants to overcome the lockdown – Berlin

What sounded vague in a newspaper interview at the weekend is now taking shape. Berlin’s Prime Minister Michael Müller (SPD) spoke of a “proposal without the values ​​10 or 25” and thus said goodbye to the fixation he had recently maintained on incidence values ​​for the determination of opening steps.

In truth, Müller had long since had the announced plan for a gradual opening. According to Tagesspiegel information, he brooded over the paper last weekend with his deputy: Senator for Economic Affairs Ramona Pop (Greens) and Senator for Culture Klaus Lederer (left). The draft from before the meeting is now available to the Tagesspiegel.

According to this, Müller and the Berlin Senate – all the Senate administrations are said to have been involved in the paper – plan to gradually relax as soon as the incidence falls below a 7-day incidence of 50 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants and week – the first even earlier. According to the paper, children up to the age of 12 could then go back to exercise together in groups of up to ten people in the open air, even if the incidence exceeds 50. However, all other restrictions were retained – with the exception of the gradual reopening of schools and daycare centers that had already been initiated.

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The next easing stage or “cluster” comes into force as soon as the incidence value falls below 50 for seven days in a row. If that is the case, first of all, the age limit for outdoor sports falls and hairdressers are allowed to reopen (as planned in Berlin for next Monday anyway). In the future, groups of all ages are likely to do sports together again, the maximum group size will remain ten people.

The next steps would take place when the incidence falls below the 35 mark. Initially, music schools, libraries, museums and memorials should be allowed to reopen in a restricted and step-by-step manner, as well as the retail trade with access restrictions of ten square meters of sales area per customer or 20 square meters per customer from a sales area of ​​800 square meters.

In addition, catering facilities should be allowed to be opened gradually and for a maximum of four people from two households including curfew, and outdoor events should also be made possible as a “first entry”. There are also plans to loosen the ban on contact to a maximum of five people or two households – as well as reopening the solariums.

The next opening step, in turn, takes place according to the draft – and this is the departure from earlier models – regardless of the incidence. If this is “stable or declining” for 14 days and if the reproductive factor does not exceed the value of 0.8, further easing takes effect. Museums and memorials could return to a basic operation with restricted access, and theaters, opera and concert halls and cinemas could also open with restricted access

Cultural events in the open air may take place for up to 250 people, in closed rooms for up to 150 people. Other markets are likely to take place again subject to conditions and with approval, the rules for catering would be relaxed and even pubs would be allowed to reopen – subject to conditions. However: If the R-value rises above 0.9, the bars have to be closed again. In addition, tourist overnight stays should be possible again. Analogous regulations apply to catering in hotels and guest houses.

Museums back to full operation

The next step takes place if the incidence value remains “stable or falling” for a further 14 days and the R value does not exceed 0.8: Then museums are allowed to return to full operation as well as theaters, opera houses and cinemas with ventilation systems and arrangement of the Audience in a checkerboard pattern, cultural events with 500 (open air) and 250 guests may take place in closed rooms.

Even clubs should be allowed to reopen, albeit with a hygiene concept and a person limit. Group sports can be practiced again and competed, the curfew is no longer applicable, restrictions on people in restaurants are being relaxed and the general contact limit is being extended to a maximum of ten people.

In a final step, after a further 14 days with stable or decreasing incidence, the restrictions largely fall. Only cultural events in the interior may take place with a maximum of 500 people, clubs must have a hygiene concept. Contact blocks are lifted just like restrictions in hospitality and retail.

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One thing is clear: the paper is just a draft, dated February 16. What changes the plan experienced over the weekend during the deliberations between Müller, Pop and Lederer and what influence it will have on the deliberations of the Prime Ministers of the federal states with Chancellor Angela Merkel on March 3 is completely open. After all, Berlin and Müller currently hold the chairmanship of the Prime Minister’s Conference and the content of the paper largely corresponds to the details known so far about the plans of the A countries.

School opening “made available”

Important: In addition to the incidences and times, other so-called “dynamic factors” also play a role when deciding whether or not to implement relaxation. Under the heading “Guiding factors ”is in the paper by “Evaluation factors” such as the R-value, intensive care bed capacities and the prospective vaccination rate are mentioned. The transition to the following cluster group should only be possible “if the 7-day R-value and the ITS capacities remain at least stable at the same time as the incidence value is stable or falling.”

In addition, the plan also contains a stipulation in the event that the number of infections increases significantly again. The gradual opening of schools and day-care centers is linked to “a further reduced infection rate” and is “made available” if the 7-day incidence is more than 100, it says. For all easing steps below the incidence of 35, the following applies: If the R-value of 0.8 is exceeded, the restrictions that apply at that time remain, and further easing is canceled.

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