Brandenburg announces easing in three steps

Created: 02/22/2022, 16:13

An FFP2 mask lies on a table.

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Brandenburg loosens from Wednesday corona rules and will drop from 20 March, all major restrictions.

As of Wednesday, the contact restrictions on vaccinated and convalescent be canceled, the 2G rule then applies in restaurants without trial or booster duty as far as the Cabinet on Tuesday decided in Potsdam.

For the hairdresser only the 3G usually is prescribed, so accessible even by Unvaccinated tested negative.

Potsdam – Only FFP2 masks are needed in rooms in museums and zoos.

For demos, there is no upper limit and mask requirement.

From March 4th, the 3G rule will also apply in restaurants, and theaters and cinemas will also need FFP2 masks.

From March 20th, all far-reaching restrictions should be lifted if the situation in hospitals allows it - but there should still be a mask requirement on buses and trains, for example, and a minimum distance.

"We can look forward to new freedoms in the coming days and weeks," said Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD).

"It is responsible from the point of view of the state government." According to Woidke, Brandenburg has implemented the decisions of the federal and state governments one-to-one.

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