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According to plans by the Federal Ministry of Justice, various corona restrictions should apply to those who have been vaccinated
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According to a newspaper report, vaccinated people and those recovered from Covid-19 could soon be exempted from the nationwide restrictions under the Infection Protection Act that will apply from this Saturday.
A submission from the Federal Ministry of Justice by Christine Lambrecht (SPD) pleads for the next Prime Minister's Conference next Monday, reported the "Bild" newspaper on Saturday.
According to the current findings of the Robert Koch Institute, it can be assumed that those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered have a lower risk of infecting other people than those who tested negative in an antigen test, "" Bild quotes from the draft.
Therefore "the relief or the exemptions should also be provided for vaccinated persons and genesis".
According to the report, the proposal is still being voted on.
It is currently planned that those who have been vaccinated for at least 14 days and those who have recovered will be exempted from contact restrictions "up to six months after the recovery has been established."
Test and quarantine obligations should fall
When traveling, the obligation to perform compulsory tests before departure and to quarantine after return should be dropped.
In shops and markets, cultural institutions as well as in sports and body-friendly services, there should also no longer be a test requirement for this group of people.
Insofar as federal states provide for test obligations or restrictions, for example in outdoor catering, vaccinated and convalescent people should also be exempt, "Bild" quoted from the template.
According to the report, the Ministry of Justice emphasizes in its paper that it is not about granting special rights or privileges, but about lifting unjustified encroachments on fundamental rights.
Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier (CDU), on the other hand, dampened expectations that vaccinated people could quickly regain more freedom.
"Currently over 20 percent have received a primary vaccination," he told the newspapers of the Funke media group (Saturday editions).
He assumes "that we can talk about exceptions in June or July".
Politicians are heavily reliant on the expertise of science.
"I believe that people who have been vaccinated will be given more freedom - at the latest when a vaccination offer has been made to all those who want to be vaccinated," said the minister.
The regulations for the nationwide Corona emergency brake came into force on Saturday.
For areas with a seven-day incidence of 100 or more new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, they provide, among other things, contact restrictions and a night curfew.
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