Following the Berlin Senate’s confirmation that clubs must close in states with high Covid-19 infection rates, it has been confirmed today that from Wednesday, December 8th, Berlin will ban dancing indefinitely. The closures relate to venues in states where seven-day incidence rates have exceeded 350 per 100k people. Berlin’s current rate is 361 per 100k, however clubs will continue to remain open at 50% capacity.
Lutz Leichsenring from Clubcommission Berlin commented: “20 months of pandemic and no better idea than to ban dancing. It doesn’t take much imagination to figure out that you can’t enforce a dance ban in party basements and private homes. Without 2G and without tests. No word about PCR tests, no data on level of infections assigned to clubs that justifies such massive restrictions.”
Leichsenring added that “there are uncertainties here, since no legal closure order has been issued. We feel the current legal situation is uncertain because we are allowed to open, but only under deficit conditions.”
Via Resident Advisor
