Resolution proposal: countries insist on corona protection rules

The federal states want to insist on a legally secure framework in order to be able to maintain corona protective measures through autumn and winter.

In a draft resolution (as of October 20) for the annual meeting of the Prime Ministers, on which, according to information from the German Press Agency, the heads of state chancellery have agreed, the federal government is asked to ensure this.

Königswinter - The Prime Ministers met on Thursday for a two-day meeting at Drachenburg Castle in Königswinter, North Rhine-Westphalia.

The paper on the epidemic situation is to be discussed this Friday and could then also be adopted in a modified version.

In the submission, the Prime Ministers recall their resolution of August 10, according to which the practiced Corona protection standards indoors - such as the so-called 3G rule, mask, distance, ventilation - are also fundamentally required in the autumn and winter months. "3G" stands for those who have been vaccinated, those who have recovered and who have been tested.

In addition, the submission, which the dpa has received, says literally: “It is also of the utmost importance that the countries are given the opportunity to prevent the event for a limited period even after the determination of the epidemic situation of national scope has ended the spread of COVID-19 to continue to take necessary and appropriate measures. ”Low-threshold measures could and should prevent“ another massive increase in the number of infections that would make significantly more stringent measures necessary again at the federal level or in the federal states ”.

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The epidemic situation is the basis for ordinances and central corona measures in Germany.

It was first established by the Bundestag in March 2020 and later extended several times by Parliament.

Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) spoke out on Monday in consultations with the health ministers of the federal states that there would be no renewed extension.

This would mean that the nationwide Corona emergency would expire on November 25th.

The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) warns of an expiry of the epidemic situation at the federal level.

When this happens, “there is no longer any de facto legal basis - no matter what.

Neither for testing in school, nor for masks, nor for completely normal ideas such as 3G plus, or 2G or 3G, ”he said on Thursday morning on Bayerischer Rundfunk.

"To a certain extent, society is then also defenseless." Then each individual would have to take care of his or her protection.

On Thursday afternoon, Söder had initially only arrived with a small group of German state leaders for the Prime Minister's Conference at Schloss Drachenburg.

Many heads of government had decided to arrive later because of the beginning negotiations on a traffic light coalition of the SPD, FDP and the Greens in Berlin.

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