The German government is close to completing plans for easing most of the regulations to contain Covid-19 on March 20, according to Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, with the focus in the future on containing local outbreaks. “We will definitely be able to bring a proposal in the next few hours to facilitate important basic protective measures for the states,” Lauterbach said at a press conference with Saxony’s health minister Petra Köpping in Dresden on Tuesday. There will be a regulation on “hotspots” or local outbreaks to protect the public even after most Covid-19 restrictions have expired,…