Berlin It is the first joint advance of the traffic light parties: In the debate about the future legal basis for Corona measures such as mask and contact rules until winter, the SPD, Greens and FDP want to present a paper on Wednesday that the “orderly termination” of the Foresees an “epidemic of national importance”. The special situation will not be extended, says the initiative that is available to the Handelsblatt and will be presented in Berlin on Wednesday morning.
The Bundestag first established the “epidemic situation” in March 2020 and last established it at the end of August. Without an extension, the measure ends on November 24th. “But that won’t be Freedom Day,” said SPD parliamentary deputy Dirk Wiese in Berlin. Measures are still necessary. But there will no longer be a lockdown, school closings and curfews. According to Wiese, a special meeting of the Federal Council is necessary beforehand to enable further corona measures after the deadline.
The plan of the traffic light parties provides for a legal basis for the federal states to be created by early spring on March 20 of the coming year, which enables “less intervention-intensive measures”. The date also represents the “end of all measures”, said the FDP parliamentary group leader Marco Buschmann.
These include SPD, Greens and FDP the mask requirement, hygiene and distance rules and access rules for vaccinated, recovered and tested (3G). However, states should decide whether to keep 2G or 3G rules, adds Buschmann.
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The measures in the Corona Occupational Health and Safety Ordinance, simplified access to basic security and the special regulation on daily child sickness allowance should also apply by the deadline. “We want to maintain this social cushioning,” said the Green parliamentary leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt in Berlin. In addition, protective measures in the workplace are still necessary. She also made it clear: “This is a transitional arrangement.”
Pandemic situation is worsening
In addition, the traffic light parties want to increase the vaccination rate. “The key to ending the pandemic is as high a vaccination rate as possible,” says the paper. “We will therefore convene a practitioner panel“ vaccination speed ”, in which we will work with practitioners to find ways to significantly accelerate the vaccination progress Elderly is still hesitantly accepted.
The traffic light parties’ plan is to create a legal basis for the federal states for less strong measures.
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“The state of emergency must not become a permanent state. We have to come to a new normal, and that as quickly as possible, ”said FDP General Secretary Volker Wissing to the newspapers of the Funke media group. “The German Bundestag has to decide things again – and not the federal government with extensive authorization.”
Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) also advocates the expiry of the “epidemic situation”, but insists on the necessary protective rules. According to the Infection Protection Act, it exists “if there is a serious risk to public health in the entire Federal Republic of Germany”.
Meanwhile, the pandemic is worsening significantly. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Wednesday morning as 118.0. For comparison: the previous day the value was 113.0, a week ago it was 80.4. The health authorities in Germany reported 23,212 new corona infections to the RKI within one day. The number of corona patients admitted to clinics also increased significantly.
With agency material.
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