In view of the increasing number of corona infections, the Saarland wants to implement its planned tightening of the corona rules quickly.
"As announced, we will tighten the measures at the weekend," said Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) on Thursday after a Prime Minister's conference with the Executive Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).
Saarbrücken - The Saarland wants to go beyond the steps decided by the switch.
The federal and state governments had agreed that uniform corona measures should take effect when certain exposure thresholds are exceeded in the clinics.
The benchmark should be the hospitalization rate reported for the respective federal state - i.e. the reported hospital admissions of corona patients per 100,000 inhabitants in a seven-day period.
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Specifically, if a threshold value of 3 is exceeded, the federal states should only introduce nationwide access rules for vaccinated and convalescent people (2G), for example to events and the catering trade - if they have not already done so. If a value of 6 is exceeded, the federal states should also prescribe test certificates or other measures in certain facilities for vaccinated and convalescent people (2G plus). At the latest when the threshold value of 9 is exceeded, further restrictions should apply - which are still open.
In Saarland, the hospitalization rate on Thursday was below the lowest threshold at 2.85.
However, the government in Saarbrücken had already announced on Tuesday that it was planning to introduce a 2G rule indoors.
According to Hans, the 2G rule should apply in numerous areas and the 2G plus rule in clubs and discos, regardless of the hospitalization rate.
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