Schleswig-Holstein’s green finance minister Monika Heinold joins the demand of the state health minister Heiner Garg (FDP), the epidemic situation ascertain. “In view of the spread of the virus, we as a country need more options to be able to react appropriately,” she said on Friday in Kiel. It was wrong that the federal government let the legal status of the epidemic situation in Germany expire.
In Berlin, the SPD, Greens and FDP had already used their majority in the Bundestag before the start of the new traffic light federal government to amend the Infection Protection Act. The so-called epidemic emergency of national scope expired at the end of November. The measure had previously made it easier for the federal and state governments to react to the corona pandemic by means of ordinances and not through the legislative procedure in parliaments. Like Heinold, Baden-Württemberg’s Green Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann had positioned himself differently from the Federal Greens.
For Schleswig-Holstein, Garg justified his request on Thursday by saying that recent events in the country, especially in connection with celebrations, showed that increased dynamics can be assumed and that the virus will spread much more quickly as a result. This can be counteracted with additional measures. After Christmas parties in Schleswig-Holstein discos with numerous corona infections, several thousand visitors were quarantined.