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New corona rule: There is also a ban on accommodation for German travelers - but new chaos is already approaching

2020-10-07T21:15:07.671Z


On Wednesday afternoon, the heads of the state chancelleries of the federal states will meet for a conference call. The federal states have agreed on an initial measure.


On Wednesday afternoon, the heads of the state chancelleries of the federal states will meet for a conference call.

The federal states have agreed on an initial measure.

  • Federalism in Germany has

    led to a

    patchwork

    of

    regulations

    in the

    Corona crisis

    *

    .

  • On Wednesday afternoon, the

    state chancellery heads of

    the

    federal states will

    hold a conference call on uniform regulations with regard to domestic

    risk areas

    *

    .

  • A nationwide

    ban

    on

    accommodation

    for holidaymakers from

    risk areas was

    resolved.

Update from October 7th, 9:00 p.m.:

In North Rhine-Westphalia there are currently no

bans

on

accommodation

for holidaymakers from inner-German

corona hotspots

.

"There is no automatism," said the head of the

NRW State Chancellery

, Nathanael Liminski (CDU)

on Wednesday

.

The measure could be used if the North Rhine-Westphalian


Ministry of Health

declares

certain regions to be

risk areas

.

For this there must be a "persistently diffuse infection process".



In

Bavaria,

however, an

accommodation ban will

apply from next Thursday

for travelers from four

Berlin districts

(Mitte, Neukölln, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg), from Bremen and from the cities of Hamm and Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Anyone who can show a negative

corona test

is still welcome.

The

ban on accommodation

is not based solely on the number of

new infections

per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days, it is rather about individual decisions based on other aspects, it said.

The "

risk areas

" should be updated regularly - at what intervals is still open.

New corona rule: There is also a ban on accommodation for German travelers - another state is shooting across the board

Update from October 7th, 6:50 p.m.:

Berlin is also not planning any

bans

on

accommodation

for travelers from

domestic corona risk areas

.

A spokeswoman for the Senate announced on Wednesday upon request.

“Each

federal state

has to make a decision for itself how it

can contain

the

pandemic

.

The Berlin Senate has adopted far-reaching measures in the last few weeks, often more far-reaching than other

federal states,

”said the Senate spokeswoman.

“Four

federal states

, including Berlin, do not want to issue any

accommodation

bans at the

moment

.” 



Bremen, Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania issued

various protocol

statements on the decision of the

heads of state chancellery

.

Lower Saxony's representative reserved the right to check whether the decision can be supported.


New corona rule in Germany - Thuringia rejects the ban on accommodation

Update from October 7, 6:23 p.m.:

According to the state government,

Thuringia does not join a general

ban

on

accommodation

for holidaymakers from domestic

corona risk areas

.

A spokesman for the

Ministry

of

Health

in Erfurt

said the state made a corresponding declaration at the switching conference of the heads of the state chancelleries of the federal states with the head of the chancellery, Helge Braun

.

Prime Minister

Bodo Ramelow

(left) said he had the impression that the

federal states had

different positions on this issue and were not yet close to one another.

He advocated leaving the responsibility for the

health authorities

in the

risk areas

.

The infected people or those suspected of having corona should

not leave

the region with a

hot spot

.

Forbidding hoteliers to

accommodate

people from

risk areas

, he described as "an interference with commercial law".

Update from October 7th, 4:05 p.m.:

The heads of the

state chancelleries of

the

federal states

agreed on an initial measure in their conference call.

A

ban

on

accommodation

for holidaymakers who come from a domestic

corona risk area was

resolved.

The ban applies nationwide, as

reported by

the

dpa

.

Anyone arriving from a risk area within Germany must therefore show a negative

corona test

.

According to information from the AFP agency, at least 11 federal states should have agreed on the implementation of the measures.

It is not yet known whether this

rule

also applies to visiting friends or relatives.

The Bavarian

Prime Minister Markus Söder also

announced the decision via Twitter.

Obligatory test for vacationers from risk areas in Bavaria: If you come from a risk area and want to go on vacation here, you need a negative corona test - otherwise there is a ban on accommodation.

This also affects Berlin districts that are risk areas due to the high number of infected people.

- Markus Söder (@Markus_Soeder) October 7, 2020

Country conference due to uniform corona measures - Discussion about dealing with domestic risk areas

Original message from October 7th:

In the

Corona crisis

, the federal structure of the Federal Republic ensures that in

Germany

a patchwork of regulations and measures has emerged.

This should now be

at least partially overcome

in a

conference call

that will take place on Wednesday afternoon.

There, the heads of the

state chancellery of

the respective countries

meet with the head of the

chancellery, Helge Braun (CDU),

to discuss a common path in

corona policy

.

The central issue here is above all uniform

travel regulations

in Germany.

A topic that is mainly due to the tense

infection situation *

is

gaining relevance

in major German cities like

Berlin

or

Munich

.

Among other things, Schleswig-Holstein came under fire after some municipalities and districts of Berlin were declared domestic

risk

areas and brought

quarantine measures

for newcomers as a consequence.

Chancellery chief Helge Braun waiting in front of the rule patchwork - causes many problems

Chancellery chief Helge Braun

demanded before the conference on Wednesday opposite the

picture

: "That is why it is now the task of these big cities

to take

effective

measures

quickly

that the

chains of infection are

broken." The top priority in the current situation is that the federal government and Pulling countries together in combating the

corona pandemic

.

“The federal government and the federal states are jointly obliged to

effectively prevent

the spread of the

SARS-CoV2 virus

.

The key to this is

to keep

the number of

infections

so low that full contact tracking is retained or that it can be reached again as quickly as possible in the hotspots, ”says Braun.

+

Chancellery chief Helge Braun (CDU) has criticized the existing patchwork of corona measures in Germany.

© Britta Pedersen / dpa-Pool / dpa

Although the CDU politician understands that countries

want to protect

their citizens from infection with the

corona

virus

, the resulting

patchwork

of

measures

cannot be accepted.

It is a "makeshift measure, which in turn causes many problems."

Many voices were also heard

from the

federal states

who sharply criticized the discrepancy in the regulations between the various countries.

Söder and Caffier also warn against patchwork and demand uniform regulations

"I see with concern how the regulations of the

federal states are

diverging and a

patchwork

is emerging," said Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Interior Minister Lorenz Caffier (CDU).

The Bavarian

Prime Minister Markus Söder

(CSU)

has also

spoken

out in favor of a uniform

quarantine regulation for

the states.

(fd) * merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network

List of rubric lists: © picture alliance / Leszek Szymanski / PAP / dpa

Source: merkur

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