Meet corona

Merkel will meet with the state ministers at 2 p.

ET Tuesday via video conference behind closed doors. She will meet corona a news conference with the Bavarian prime minister and the Hamburg mayor afterwards to discuss results.

On the table: new limits of up to 25 people for private gatherings nationwide, according to the draft of a government paper obtained by CNN affiliate NTV and widely reported in German media. Also to be discussed are fines if restaurant or bar visitors register wrong information for the track and trace system.

Meanwhile, bars in hard-hit areas may see a ban on alcohol sales, NTV said. Warning system: Bavaria's prime minister had previously suggested an early-warning system for areas with a stark increase of the virus, a so-called traffic-light system.

While this is not explicitly on the table, according to NTV, a nationwide warning strategy will be discussed. So-called temperature ambulances for quick Covid 19 testing will be discussed for nationwide rollout.

German Health Minister Jens Spahn has previously said he wants to introduce them. Numbers: The Robert Koch Institute -- Germany's agency for disease control and meet corona -- recorded an additional coronavirus cases Tuesday, bringing the national total toA total of 9, people have died as a result of the virus in Germany.