A new regulation will make life less comfortable for unvaccinated people in Lower Saxony.
This applies to events, for example.
Further tightening is likely.
Hanover - New corona rules bring more restrictions for unvaccinated people in Lower Saxony.
For example, unvaccinated employees in old people's and nursing homes have to test themselves for the corona virus every day, as the State Chancellery announced on Tuesday in Hanover.
Previously, this was required three times a week.
At events in closed rooms with more than 1000 people, the 2G model is already switched to a lower corona warning level, so only vaccinated and recovered people could gain access there. Children and young people up to the age of 18 are exempt from this. Events have recently proven to be special places of spread of the Corona.
"Our aim is to get through the coming cold and wet months as well as possible, to prevent our health system from being overwhelmed and to save as many people as possible from serious illness and death," said Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) according to the announcement.
Even federal states, which - like Lower Saxony - are even less affected than other states, would have to be very careful.
The situation in southern and eastern Germany is a warning example.
In federal states such as Saxony or Thuringia, the seven-day incidence is currently more than four times as high as in Lower Saxony.
The State Chancellery also announced that further exacerbations are likely in the coming days and weeks, depending on the development of the pandemic.
Further information was not given on Tuesday.
Basically, the existing system with several warning levels remains. A corona warning level is reached in Lower Saxony if the hospitalization value (hospital admissions) and at least one of the two other measures (newly infected, intensive care beds) exceed the threshold values defined in the ordinance. For example, the value six must be exceeded for the leading indicator of hospitalization so that warning level one can possibly be declared. This value is currently four.
According to the revised ordinance, there is no change in the requirement for a mask in class - pupils in grades one and two do not have to wear a mask, while the others do.
A loosening of the mask requirement was still in the room a few weeks ago.
Students and teachers who are not fully vaccinated against the coronavirus or have recovered from Covid-19 infection must continue to test themselves three times a week - usually on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Around half of 12 to 17-year-olds in Lower Saxony are fully vaccinated against the corona virus, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
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Over 70-year-olds in the state should, however, receive a letter with information about the Corona booster vaccination.
This should include, for example, where citizens can get vaccinated, said Health Minister Daniela Behrens (SPD) in the state parliament.
When and by whom these letters should be sent remained open at first.
According to RKI figures, around 250,000 people in Lower Saxony have received a corona booster vaccination so far.
Meta Janssen-Kucz, health policy spokeswoman for the Greens parliamentary group, previously sharply criticized the state government. She could long ago have pushed free corona tests or letters to people who are eligible for a corona booster vaccination. The majority of these people do not live in old people's and nursing homes. It had come back to an "information chaos through federal and state".
The district of Cloppenburg currently has particularly high corona numbers.
The RKI gave the seven-day incidence of new infections on Tuesday as 289.1 - the number of corona cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the past seven days were reported.
This means that the district has by far the highest value in Lower Saxony.
"It is now the case that it has arrived in all professional and social areas," said a spokesman for the circle.
Corona affects people of all ages from infants to senior citizens.
The virus has spread in all municipalities and cities in the district.
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