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Corona chaos in Lower Saxony: Christmas rest on the dump

2021-12-19T15:29:39.506Z


Corona chaos in Lower Saxony: Christmas rest on the dump Created: 12/19/2021, 4:22 PM From: Johannes Nuss In Lower Saxony, the planned Corona Christmas rest is on the brink. A restaurateur from Aurich called the Lüneburg Higher Administrative Court. Hanover / Lüneburg - Hard, harder, Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD): The strictest corona rules between the years in Germany should actually appl


Corona chaos in Lower Saxony: Christmas rest on the dump

Created: 12/19/2021, 4:22 PM

From: Johannes Nuss

In Lower Saxony, the planned Corona Christmas rest is on the brink.

A restaurateur from Aurich called the Lüneburg Higher Administrative Court.

Hanover / Lüneburg - Hard, harder, Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD): The strictest corona rules between the years in Germany should actually apply in Lower Saxony.

At least that is what the state government decided last week.

But no sooner had the coalition parties agreed on a warning level 3 and a Christmas rest in Lower Saxony over the holidays, when there was disruptive fire from the catering industry.

Federal state:

Lower Saxony

Surface:

47,709.82 km²

Resident:

8,003,421 (as of December 31, 2020)

Prime Minister:

Stephan Weil (SPD)

A restaurateur from Aurich in East Friesland wants to defend himself legally and has submitted a so-called norm control application against the dance ban at Christmas and New Year's Eve to the Higher Administrative Court in Lüneburg (OVG).

He receives support from the Lower Saxony Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga).

As chief executive Rainer Balke confirmed to the NDR on Saturday, the application was received by the OVG on Friday.

Corona chaos in Lower Saxony: dance ban between Christmas and New Year should be lifted

Lower Saxony's state government in Hanover has announced a so-called Christmas break for the period from Christmas Eve to January 2.

Warning level 3 should then apply nationwide, with the corona rules being tightened again.

Among other things, dance events are prohibited, test requirements tightened and the number of permissible contacts reduced.

"We now hope that the government will comment quickly on the impending dance ban and that there may be a court decision on this before Christmas," said Balke.

According to a report by the Bremen “Weser-Kurier” on Saturday, a private person also applies an urgent application to the OVG against the restrictions caused by the blanket warning of warning level 3 between December 24th and January 2nd.

According to a resolution by the state government, there should be a ban on dancing in Lower Saxony at Christmas and New Year.

A restaurateur from Aurich and a private person defended themselves against this before the Higher Administrative Court in Lüneburg.

(Archive image) © Peter Steffen / dpa

But not only the Christmas rest is on the brink.

After the judgment of the OVG on Thursday, the 2G rule no longer applies in retail in Lower Saxony.

Now the state government wants to draft a new catalog of Corona measures at lightning speed, including whether there will be an FFP2 mask requirement in retail.

The coalition committee will also meet on Saturday in Hanover.

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Source: merkur

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