Corona crisis: Grand coalition wants to move away from the incidence value

The grand coalition wants to push through the abandonment of the incidence value more quickly.

In the future, only the hospitalization rate should be decisive.

Berlin - Quickly away with the incidence: The grand coalition wants to set a faster pace with the planned move away from the incidence value.

Last Wednesday (August 25, 2021), the parties called on the federal government to prepare a wording aid for the amendment of the Infection Protection Act by Monday (August 30, 2021).

In the future, it should no longer depend on the incidence value, but on the number of corona-related hospital stays.

"The number of new infections with the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days is no longer a central measure due to the progress in vaccination," wrote the grand coalition in its draft resolution.

The upper incidence limits listed so far are no longer up-to-date.

The protective measures should therefore be based on the hospitalization rate in the future.

The vote on this will take place in the late afternoon.

So far, the regulation has been anchored in the Infection Protection Act as follows: If the incidence value is over 50, protective measures against the corona virus * must be taken.

That should no longer apply in the future.

Rapid abandonment of the incidence value: those who have recovered and who have been vaccinated no longer have to expect any restrictions

Health Minister Jens Spahn * (CDU *) recently advocated moving away from the incidence value. When the Corona cabinet met with Chancellor Angela Merkel * and the specialist ministers on Monday (23.08.2021) for the first time since the summer break, the cabinet quickly came to an agreement: Spahn should quickly make a corresponding proposal and the federal cabinet then adopt it . The change in the law could be accepted by the cabinet on September 1st and passed in the Bundestag on September 7th. The Federal Council would then decide on the change at a special meeting on September 10th.

Recovered and vaccinated people will no longer have to worry about restrictions in the future with the change in the Infection Protection Act. "You can tell the vaccinated that nothing will change for them, even if the numbers continue to rise, and that also applies to those who have recovered: You do not have to expect new restrictions now," said government spokesman Steffen Seibert. (Ares Abasi)

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