New Corona rules in hardware stores: This will change from April at Hagebaumarkt, Toom, Bauhaus and Co.

Created: 04/03/2022 04:54

By: Anna Lorenz

On April 2, 2022, masks will no longer be compulsory in many areas of public life.

You can read here how the mask requirement and corona rules will continue in hardware stores.

Berlin – Since March 20, 2022, the new Infection Protection Act has already brought about some innovations in corona protection measures.

On April 2, 2022, after the transition period, the remaining rules will also come into force.

From now on there will no longer be 2G or 3G in public life and the mask requirement will also largely be eliminated from Saturday:

• Masks are compulsory

   in hospitals and care facilities.

• Masks are compulsory

   on public transport.

• No mask requirement

  in bars, retail and other areas of public life.

• Hotspot regulation:

  Depending on the incidence, a region can be declared a hotspot - a mask requirement is then possible again.

New rules for April: Mask requirement ends extensively - Lauterbach hopes for help

While the exact details of the option of reviving the obligation to wear masks via the hotspot regulation if necessary divide politics, Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach addresses the retailers directly, pointing out their domiciliary rights.

For example, supermarkets and discounters such as Lidl, Edeka and Co. should voluntarily continue to make masks compulsory in their stores - but they reject the request quite clearly.

Mask off: April brings changes in the Corona rules - hardware stores are silent in many places

The appeal by Federal Minister of Health Lauterbach apparently falls on deaf ears with the dealers.

Ohlmann, spokesman for the Bavarian Trade Association, also diminishes the hope of a voluntary obligation in hardware stores such as Toom, Hagebaumarkt or Bauhaus: "The vast majority of our members tell us: 'With a mask, there is no shopping feeling.'" Like the current Corona Figures from the Robert Koch Institute suggest that many customers will probably continue to wear mouth and nose covers - it is also "assumed by retailers that the majority of customers will continue to wear the mask, at least in the medium term," says Ohlmann.

Thanks to the current situation, easing is possible so that "a little more normality can return to all of our lives," confirms Susann Enders, Secretary General of the Free Voters.

There is disagreement in Bavaria.

"We are now completely blank," said CSU health politician Bernhard Seidenath.

The Bavarian Minister of Health Klaus Holetschek (CSU) also turned to the Federal Minister of Health because of the "incomprehensible" changes.

This refers to the legal impossibility - continuing a general mask requirement can no longer be legally classified as proportionate.

(askl)