Stübgen calls for easing: Hoffmann against compulsory vaccination

Created: 2022-01-29Updated: 2022-01-29 2:04 PM

Michael Stübgen (CDU) speaks.

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The Brandenburg interior minister and CDU state leader Michael Stübgen is deviating from the line of the Kenya coalition and is calling for easing of the corona rules - especially for the unvaccinated and the catering trade.

The number of corona infections in the country is still high.

Potsdam – Despite the high number of infections, Brandenburg’s Interior Minister Michael Stübgen (CDU) is pushing for the corona restrictions to be relaxed.

"It is not yet the moment for major easing, but we must now have the courage to delete everything that does not make a decisive contribution to combating the pandemic," said the Minister of the "Märkische Allgemeine" (Saturday).

Stübgen said that shopping in shops with an FFP2 mask should again be possible for everyone and not just for those who have been vaccinated.

In his opinion, the 2G rule should prevail again in gastronomy instead of “2G-plus”.

This would mean that people who have been vaccinated twice and those who have recovered do not have to present an additional daily test for a restaurant visit.

Stübgen demanded that the night-time exit restrictions in hotspot regions should also be lifted immediately.

From a 7-day incidence of 750 and a share of occupancy of intensive care beds with Covid 19 patients from 10 percent nationwide, a night curfew applies if this is the case in a region for three days.

This currently applies in almost all districts and urban districts with the exception of Cottbus and the districts of Elbe-Elster, Oberspreewald-Lausitz and Spree-Neisse.

The districts of Elbe-Elster and Oberspreewald-Lausitz maintain these restrictions for non-vaccinated people, despite the fact that the incidence has fallen in the meantime.

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After 5,964 new cases within 24 hours, the number of new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants rose to 1,308.1 nationwide within a week on Saturday, the Ministry of Health announced.

That was a slight increase from the previous day's 1291.5 and significantly more than a week ago, when an incidence of 1023.9 ​​was recorded.

The number of people who have died with Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic has increased by two to exactly 5000.

The head of the Corona crisis management team in Brandenburg, Secretary of State for Health Michael Ranft, had rejected changes to the Corona rules at this point on Thursday. "I would be very reluctant to change anything fundamentally in this situation," said the State Secretary for Health at the German Press Agency in Potsdam. "We have to wait for the winter holidays and travel time." There is a basic framework of measures that will also prove effective in the fifth wave.

Meanwhile, Brandenburg's Justice Minister Susanne Hoffmann (CDU) has criticized a general corona vaccination requirement. This would represent a significant encroachment on fundamental rights, she told the "Uckermark Kurier" and the newspaper "Der Prignitzer" (Saturday). "Particularly against the background of the Omicron variant, the question arises as to whether, with the current development, general vaccination is still the proportionate, above all necessary, means of combating the pandemic," said Hoffmann.

According to the figures, the situation in the Brandenburg hospitals remained stable: the proportion of intensive care beds with Covid patients in the clinics was 11.3 percent nationwide as of Friday, slightly less than the previous day (11.7 percent).

The threshold at which the warning light turns red is 20 percent.

According to the Ministry of Health, there are currently 470 patients with Covid 19 in the hospital - 84 of them in intensive care units.

The seven-day hospitalization incidence is 3.36 after 3.87 the previous day.

Here the red area is reached from the value 6.

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