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Mask trouble: Bavaria wants to help those in need

2021-01-13T11:01:58.927Z


Nationwide there is headwind for Bavaria's push for an FFP2 mask requirement. Prime Minister Söder and his cabinet are sticking to it. According to information from our editorial team, the mask requirement should be socially cushioned. Support is provided for those who cannot afford the expensive FFP2 protection.


Nationwide there is headwind for Bavaria's push for an FFP2 mask requirement.

Prime Minister Söder and his cabinet are sticking to it.

According to information from our editorial team, the mask requirement should be socially cushioned.

Support is provided for those who cannot afford the expensive FFP2 protection.

Munich - Bavaria wants to help those in need with a basic set of FFP2 masks.

According to information from government circles, the Council of Ministers is currently discussing how social hardship can be cushioned with the planned FFP2 obligation.

The basic decision, which caused an enormous stir nationwide, is standing: From Monday onwards, the safer FFP2 masks will come into force in all of Bavaria when shopping and in local public transport.

Scarves, kerchiefs, fabric masks and other face covers are then no longer sufficient.

For this regulation, fines of an as yet unknown amount are to be waived.

It's about the fear of the B117 mutation

The background is concerns about the more contagious mutation of the corona virus, which first appeared in the UK.

This variant B117 is considered to be up to 70 percent more contagious.

That doesn't sound alarming at first, but in the medium term it would lead to exponential growth in the number of infections that have just been suppressed.

Several cases of this mutation have already been discovered in Bavaria.

Because only a fraction of the infections are examined so closely, the number of unreported cases could be much higher.

Among other things, experts and politicians are puzzling why, despite the strict lockdown that a large majority of the population adheres to, well over ten thousand new infections still occur every day.

Is the highly infectious British variant responsible for this?

The mutation has already made it to the continent, several German neighboring countries are affected - the Netherlands and Denmark severely, from Austria there are individual reports from skiers in Tyrol and from a Viennese old people's home, which sound alarming.

Correctly worn FFP2 masks could offer somewhat greater protection against this mutation.

The SPD also demands: Help the needy!

Bavaria's advance is still controversial.

Other states have not yet joined, but Saxony, which has been severely affected, is considering it.

The CDU politician Norbert Röttgen, for example, called it “premature” on Wednesday to talk about FFP2 masks.

One must first convey the difference and the meaning to people.

In state politics, the FFP2 initiative itself was welcomed by several parties.

Among other things, the SPD criticizes the costs and demands help for those in need.

“How should a person with children in basic security pay for that?

Like a homeless person? ”Complained, for example, the SPD state chairwoman Natascha Kohnen.

Söder and the new Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (both CSU) want to announce further details of the rules in Munich today.

Source: merkur

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