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At Easter, Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) announced that there should be more freedom for vaccinated people in the future.
The Berlin Senate has now passed a resolution to this effect.
People who have been vaccinated against Corona will in future be treated like people with a negative test, as the German Press Agency learned on Tuesday after the Senate meeting.
Those affected are therefore allowed to go shopping outside of the grocery store or visit a museum without a prior corona test.
At the beginning of April, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) declared in a report to the Federal Ministry of Health that “people who have been vaccinated probably no longer play an essential role in the epidemiology of the disease”.
The assessment relates to the risk of transmission "no later than the 15th day after administration of the second vaccination dose".
Legal experts have long agreed that there is no way around a gradual relaxation of the fundamental rights restrictions for vaccinated people.
"The freedom of every individual"
Most recently, Berlin's Senator for Economic Affairs Ramona Pop (Greens) publicly pleaded for significantly more freedom for vaccinated people.
"It's not about privileges, but about the freedom of every individual," she said recently in an interview with the "Tagesspiegel".
In the Senate, the Governing Mayor Michael Müller and Health Senator Dilek Kalayci (both SPD) campaigned for the new rules on Tuesday.
Independently of this, the Berlin Senate extended the lockdown to contain the corona pandemic again on Tuesday.
So far, the current pandemic control ordinance, which came into force on April 2, was limited to Sunday (April 18).
Now it should take up to three weeks longer.
Baden-Württemberg had already announced easing for vaccinated people on Monday.
Vaccinated, symptom-free people should no longer have to go into quarantine if they come into contact with a Covid 19 case.
The same should apply to travelers from all risk areas abroad.
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