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.
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