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Coronavirus: The federal and state governments are considering a maximum of 15,000 spectators at major events

2021-12-02T10:07:04.187Z


In order to break the fourth wave of the pandemic, audience numbers at events could be limited to 30 percent of capacity. This emerges from a draft resolution for the federal and state conference.


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Spectators at the Bundesliga match between Cologne and Mönchengladbach last weekend

Photo: Marius Becker / dpa

Around 50,000 spectators came to the Bundesliga match between 1.FC Cologne and Borussia Mönchengladbach last weekend.

Such a high utilization of a stadium in Germany in times of the pandemic should no longer exist for the time being.

The Prime Minister's Conference of the federal and state governments, which is due to take place shortly, is considering admitting a maximum of 15,000 spectators to outdoor events.

This emerges from a draft resolution that is available to SPIEGL.

It is dated Thursday morning at 8:30 a.m.

A maximum of 30 percent of the capacity may be used, it said.

In addition, a mask requirement should apply.

As usual, only vaccinated or convalescent people should have access (2G).

Similarly, the 30 percent limit should also apply to indoor events, but only up to a maximum of 5000 people.

In addition, a current test can be prescribed (2G Plus).

But it is also possible that the federal and state governments decide that events can be canceled entirely or take place without an audience.

This point is still disputed in the draft resolution - so there should be discussions about this at the meeting.

North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) demanded consistent decisions in the fight against the dramatically high Corona numbers before the Bund-Laender Round.

"We are not allowed to do things by halves at the Prime Minister's Conference today, we must resolutely break the fourth wave," said the current chairman of the Prime Minister's Conference (MPK) of the German Press Agency in Berlin.

"To do this, the countries need the tried and tested toolkit for fighting pandemics," said Wüst.

He is also grateful that the likely successor to Angela Merkel (CDU) in the Chancellery, Olaf Scholz (SPD), has promised to improve the Infection Protection Act again noticeably.

"But that has to be done consistently now," stressed Wüst.

as / dpa / Reuters

Source: spiegel

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