RB Leipzig criticizes Saxon state government

Football Bundesliga club RB Leipzig has responded to the renewed ghost games due to rapidly rising corona numbers in Saxony with criticism of politics.

No understanding, we have that the Saxon government has come to this situation at all, wrote the club on Saturday on his homepage, the highest infection rate of all federal states with the lowest vaccine is a receipt for the policy it In Saxony has not managed to implement sustainable concepts to effectively curb the pandemic.

You will accept and respect the new legislation, emphasized RB. The state government in Saxony had decided on Friday, among other things, the fact that no viewers are allowed to go to the bus. The new regulation also meets the second division Dynamo Dresden and Erzgebirge AUE.

With the new measures, which are initially until December 12, Saxons responded to the enormously increased infections in the Free State. According to the Robert Koch Institute on Saturday, the seven-day incidence was nearly 800 and thus the highest nationwide. At the same time, the vaccination rate with just under 58 percent is the lowest in the waypoints nationwide.

Leipzig must therefore play in the Bundesliga against Bayer Leverkusen on the 28th of November and against Borussia Mönchengladbach on 11 December and in the Champions League against Manchester City on 7 December from empty ranks.

In Bavaria, affected by similarly high incidences, the state government had previously reduced the utilization of the stadiums and halls in games dueing events to a maximum of 25 percent. The measures will be decided on Tuesday in the state parliament and apply until 15 December.