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Traffic light parties are planning new corona rules

2021-11-07T16:25:43.281Z


The corona emergency is due to expire at the end of November, the potential new government partners agree on this. You bet on a different path. It is now becoming clearer.


The corona emergency is due to expire at the end of November, the potential new government partners agree on this.

You bet on a different path.

It is now becoming clearer.

Berlin - The struggle for a uniform legal basis for corona rules in Germany is entering the hot phase.

Before the epidemic situation ends on November 25, the parliamentary groups of the SPD, Greens and FDP want to adopt new guard rails to contain the pandemic.

A draft law is currently still being worked on, it said on Sunday from parliamentary groups.

According to the current planning, the Bundestag should discuss the draft next Thursday.

According to the information, the three possible coalition partners, the SPD, Greens and FDP, want to lay down new regulations for the test offer, among other things.

Politicians, doctors and associations have recently been increasingly vocal in calling for the return to free corona citizen tests for everyone.

In addition, the traffic light parties are probably working on measures to prevent fraud with falsified vaccination certificates.

Greens boss Annalena Baerbock told the editorial network Germany: "The point is to put the protective measures on a legally viable basis and thereby secure them." The measures would have to be decided by the Bundestag.

Compulsory testing in nursing homes

As the "Bild am Sonntag" reported, citing negotiating circles, the SPD, Greens and FDP are considering, among other things, a daily test obligation for employees and visitors in nursing homes, regardless of whether they have been vaccinated or recovered.

In addition, the corona premium for clinics could be reactivated so that hospitals receive state compensation again if they keep part of their intensive care beds free for corona patients

In order to speed up booster vaccinations for seniors, doctors should be required to write to their elderly patients and inform them of the third vaccination, the report said.

However, the potential traffic light partners wanted to forego a lockdown for unvaccinated people or a nationwide 2G rule for public life.

Spahn welcomes plans

The incumbent Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) welcomed the plans.

"Our resolutions by the federal and state health ministers on Friday and today's proposals from the traffic light negotiators on the current pandemic situation are congruent," he said on Sunday.

"That is good, because a uniform approach by all those responsible increases the so important acceptance and thus participation in the population."

On November 25, the special status of the epidemic situation of national scope expires.

Like the possible new government partners, Spahn had spoken out in favor of no longer extending the classification as the legal basis for extensive corona restrictions.

The SPD, Greens and FDP had already announced at the end of October that they wanted to define a stripped-down catalog of possible measures instead.

A corresponding legal regulation should be decided after a hearing of experts on November 18 in the Bundestag.

One day later, the law should be discussed and passed in a special session of the Federal Council.

Countries with opportunities

After the announcement of the three parties, the federal states should continue to have corona measures such as mask requirements, hygiene concepts or access rules only for vaccinated, convalescent and tested people.

School closings, lockdowns and curfews will no longer exist, SPD parliamentary deputy Dirk Wiese said.

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So far, according to the Infection Protection Act, corona requirements have been linked to the fact that the Bundestag determines the epidemic situation.

Parliament did this for the first time in March 2020 and confirmed it several times.

The three parties had named the vaccinations as protection against corona as the main reason for the planned change.

They had also announced that all corona restrictions should expire by March 20, 2022 at the latest.

dpa

Source: merkur

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