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2G-Plus because of Omikron: Bundestag tightens the rules - AfD wants to sue

2022-01-12T10:23:20.260Z


2G-Plus because of Omikron: Bundestag tightens the rules - AfD wants to sue Created: 01/12/2022, 11:18 AM From: Anna-Katharina Ahnefeld Anyone who has only been double vaccinated or has recovered now needs an additional negative test for access to the plenary hall or committee meetings. © Michael Kappeler / dpa In large parts of Germany, the catering industry requires vaccinations, proof of re


2G-Plus because of Omikron: Bundestag tightens the rules - AfD wants to sue

Created: 01/12/2022, 11:18 AM

From: Anna-Katharina Ahnefeld

Anyone who has only been double vaccinated or has recovered now needs an additional negative test for access to the plenary hall or committee meetings.

© Michael Kappeler / dpa

In large parts of Germany, the catering industry requires vaccinations, proof of recovery and tests.

The corona regulation now also applies in the Bundestag.

The AfD is critical.

Berlin - In view of the Omikron wave, the Bundestag is introducing the 2G-Plus rule for its plenary session and the committees. For the 736 members of the Bundestag, their employees and other members of parliament, this means in concrete terms: Anyone who has been vaccinated twice or has recovered needs an additional negative test for access to the plenary hall or committee meetings. Those who have been boosted or have recovered with a double vaccination do not need this. The requirements also apply to members of the government and Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD), who this Wednesday will answer questions from parliamentarians for the first time during the government survey

Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD) is putting the new general decree with 2G-plus rules into force for parliament this Wednesday - "in view of the risk of infection from the highly contagious Omikron variant" and in consultation with the parliamentary groups, as the Bundestag announced on Tuesday.

In addition, FFP2 masks must be worn in the Bundestag from now on.

Surgical masks are no longer sufficient.

MEPs who have neither been vaccinated nor recovered can continue to watch the meetings from the stands - but from now on only if they present a current negative test.

In previous Bundestag sessions, AfD MPs had already given priority to the stands * because the 3G plenum was: vaccinated, tested or recovered.

Omikron: Rule change in the Bundestag - from now on 2G-Plus applies

The AfD sharply criticized the new rules: "We will look at it very closely and also complain about it," said parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel on Tuesday. With the ever new restrictions in the Bundestag, the free mandate of the MPs is restricted. Weidel said: "I am not vaccinated, and the regulation of those who have recovered applies to me because I was already suffering from Corona *. And accordingly I will be tested tomorrow so that I can take a seat in the plenary. "

The new rules are initially limited to February 28th.

It will be interesting if they are extended further.

Because you are only considered recovered for a maximum of six months after a positive PCR test.

"After the six months have passed, a vaccination is required in order to continue to be considered as having a basic immunization," wrote the director at the Bundestag, Lorenz Müller, in an email to the members of parliament on Tuesday.

(dpa / aka) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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