{"id":225622,"date":"2021-01-20T08:21:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T08:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=225622"},"modified":"2021-01-22T08:32:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T08:32:43","slug":"germany-to-house-covid-rule-breakers-in-refugee-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=225622","title":{"rendered":"Germany to house Covid rule breakers in refugee camps"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christy Cooney \u2013 The Sun Jan 18, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

GERMANY’S worst Covid rule breakers will be held in detention centres under new proposals being drawn up by a number of state governments.<\/p>\n

The move forms part of the country’s efforts to stop the spread of the more contagious mutant strain of the virus detected in the UK last month.<\/p>\n

In the eastern state of Saxony, people who ignore lockdown measures will be held in a cordoned-off part of a refugee camp being built next week.<\/p>\n

State authorities have said the centre will only be used for those who repeatedly breach self-isolation requirements.<\/p>\n

A similar scheme will be used in neighbouring Brandenburg, while in northerly Schleswig-Holstein rule breakers will be held in a part of a juvenile detention centre.<\/p>\n

The southwestern state of Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg will reportedly use rooms in hospitals.<\/p>\n

The country’s regional governments have powers to hold people who flout lockdown requirements under the Disease Protection Act, first passed by the federal parliament in March, Die Welt repots.<\/p>\n

Germany won praise for its early handling of the pandemic, though has seen cases rise in recent months.<\/p>\n

It is now seeing around 18,000 people test positive a day, and has so far recorded 47,440 deaths.<\/p>\n

The government is also keen to avoid the spread of a mutant strain of the virus first detected in Britain in December.<\/p>\n

The strain is thought to be up to 70 per cent more contagious than the original, and to be a contributing factor to a recent surge in cases in the UK.<\/p>\n

Officials have expressed concern that more people continue to mix and use public transport than they did during the first lockdown in spring.<\/p>\n

Markus S\u00f6der, head of state of Bavaria, has said the country must start taking the “worrying” mutant strain “extremely seriously”.<\/p>\n

“The… rules that we have may be clearly too few,” he said, adding that the variant could “quickly jeopardise all efforts of the past few weeks”.<\/p>\n

Current lockdown measures are due to expire on January 31, but Chancellor Angela Merkel is said to have told a working group<\/a> of members of her Christian Democratic Union party that the country still needs “eight to 10 weeks of hard measures\u201d.<\/p>\n

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