For the time being, there are no plans to declare Berlin a Coronavirus hotspot by parliamentary resolution. The Infection Protection Act provides for this possibility, which allows the individual states to adopt stricter protective measures in the event of high Coronavirus infection numbers. In Berlin, the necessary criteria for this to happen have not been met, Giffey said. According to the Senate Department for Health, the German capital recorded the second-lowest incidence of all federal states on Tuesday, when the incidence was 997.1.