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Corona testing in a company in Frankfurt am Main (archive picture): Twice a week is mandatory
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The Federal Ministry of Labor is gradually easing the requirements for companies in view of the falling number of corona infections.
In the future, maximum limits for employees in the company as well as the division into fixed teams are to be dispensed with - however, combined with the appeal to keep the number of employees in the rooms used by several people as low as possible.
Hygiene and distance rules should continue to apply in the companies.
In addition, employers are still obliged to offer their employees a corona test twice a week.
This emerges from a draft of the occupational health and safety ordinance from the house of Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD).
The reason given for the only gradual relaxation is that one must continue to be careful precisely because of the virus variants that occur in other countries and that the Robert Koch Institute still speaks of a "high" risk in its current risk assessment.
"A reassessment of the protective measures in the companies must therefore be carried out with great care, especially if not everyone in the company has had the opportunity to accept a vaccination offer," says the draft.
The number of people vaccinated, recovered and tested is increasing continuously, but not to the same extent in all companies.
fdi / Reuters
