NOTE: This post will be broadcast without narration. O-TONE FEDERAL CHANCELLOR OLAF SCHOLZ (SPD) “The apex has probably been reached in the meantime. All the signs we have indicate that we succeeded exactly at the time of our meeting, as foreseen.” – SCHNITT – “This is now also the basis for us being able to open up optimistic perspectives and for the time until the beginning of spring, step by step, we are gradually taking back a large part of the restrictions that are currently still in force in Germany the federal states and the federal government agreed with each other.” O-TON HENDRIK WÜST, PRIME MINISTER OF NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA (CDU) “But we have to remain vigilant during this phase. Above all, this means that responsible perspectives must be combined with good basic protection. If the Bundestag does not act actively, run From March 20th, all protective measures will be canceled and all measures that we have known so far will simply no longer apply. However, the pandemic does not follow the calendar.” – SCHNITT – “From the point of view of the federal states, we therefore need the collection of proven protective measures, especially masks, to be compulsory. Rules of decency, hygiene, concepts, tests and at least the possibility of providing tests in particularly endangered areas, obligation to provide evidence.” O-TON FEDERAL CHANCELLOR OLAF SCHOLZ (SPD) “Allow me to make the personal remark that I believe that despite the confidence, despite the fact that we are now entering a spring where we are leaving many restrictions behind us and the matter better, we must not forget that there will also be autumn and winter next. And that is why it is right not only to continue to promote vaccination, but also to prepare the legislative measures with a view to making vaccination compulsory. It will be necessary precisely when when the weather gets colder again, when the time gets darker again and when the infections can increase again. And that’s the task that we have before us then.”