Before the federal emergency brake expires on Wednesday, the Association of Towns and Municipalities advocates reactivating the nationwide rules if necessary.
Berlin - "If the number of infections increases again sharply, the federal emergency brake should be put back into force.
We have not overcome the pandemic and do not know which mutations are still to come, "said chief executive Gerd Landsberg of the" world "(Tuesday).
The City Council expressed a similar opinion: “Fortunately, we are currently far from a federal emergency brake with the incidences.
It only has to be reinstalled if the number of infections rises again nationwide, also because of new virus variants, ”said managing director Helmut Dedy of the newspaper.
"With very high incidences, uniform federal rules have helped people understand them."
The federal emergency brake, which came into force in April, is limited in the Infection Protection Act until June 30th at the latest.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the end of May that she could expire.
But: "Should something develop through mutations that we don't hope for, we can reactivate it at any time."
The district convention in the “Welt” was more skeptical: it was “generally considered questionable to directly prescribe tailor-made solutions for very different local situations in a federal law,” said President Reinhard Sager. "You shouldn't include this set of instruments again in the Infection Protection Act after it expires at the end of June." (Dpa)
