Corona regulation in Lower Saxony: These rules apply from Saturday

Created: 03/18/2022, 09:28

By: Johannes Nuss

Freedom Day is not coming.

Instead, almost all corona rules in Lower Saxony are retained.

Relaxations are planned for the mask requirement and in stadiums.

Hanover – After details of the new Corona regulation and thus the Corona rules for Lower Saxony became known during the weekly press conference of the Corona crisis team on Tuesday, the draft was presented today in the health committee of the state parliament.

The rules are scheduled to come into force on Saturday, March 19, 2022.

The actually planned Freedom Day in Lower Saxony on Sunday, March 20, 2022, is canceled because almost all corona rules in Lower Saxony will remain in place until April 2, 2022, reports kreiszeitung.de.

New Corona regulation in Lower Saxony: These rules will apply from Saturday – relaxation planned

Nevertheless, the state government is introducing some corona relaxations in the new Corona regulation for Lower Saxony.

Heiger Scholz, head of the crisis team, said on Thursday about the set of rules that will apply in the country from Saturday.

The background is the change in the Infection Protection Act planned by the federal government, which, according to Scholz, “does not just put the essential tools in the closet, but throws them away”.

New corona rules will apply in Lower Saxony from Saturday.

(Archive image) © Sina Schuldt/dpa

The federal draft provides that the federal states could also decide on more extensive restrictions for individual hotspots.

However, the number of corona infections and the number of hospital admissions of infected people are currently higher than ever in Lower Saxony.

The deputy head of the crisis team, Claudia Schröder, therefore emphasized that the federal government had explicitly pointed out that the hotspot rule could also be applied to the entire federal state if a more dangerous virus variant appeared or if the hospitals were threatened with overloading due to the high number of infections.

Corona rules in Lower Saxony: football stadiums can be fully utilized again from Saturday

Both the SPD, the CDU and the Greens criticized the federal government's easing plan, which was also discussed on Thursday in a federal-state group at the level of the heads of government, in the state parliament's health committee as irresponsible.

The FDP, on the other hand, argued that if the pandemic situation changed, there would also have to be changed corona rules.

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Football games and other major events should be able to take place in Lower Saxony again from Saturday without limiting the number of participants.

(Archive image) © Swen Pförtner/dpa

The new Corona rules for Lower Saxony now show that football games and other major events in Lower Saxony can take place again from Saturday without limiting the number of participants.

The prerequisite for this is that all viewers have been vaccinated against Corona or have recovered from an infection, so the well-known 2G rule applies.

New Corona regulation in Lower Saxony: These rules apply from Saturday

• The

  upper limit for major events and football games

  does not apply if the 2G rule is applied

• At

  events in closed rooms, an FFP2 mask must be

  worn, from 2000 participants the known distance rules apply indoors.

• The 3G rule applies to events

  with up to 2,000 spectators

  .

• FFP2 mask requirement

  in shops

• Three

  corona tests a week for children

  aged three and over.

• Three

  corona tests a week for schoolchildren

  .

At events in the open air, minimum distances or mask requirements will no longer have to be observed in the future.

At events in closed rooms, on the other hand, FFP2 masks must be worn, and distance requirements apply indoors for more than 2,000 participants.

Corona rules in Lower Saxony: Events with 2000 spectators should be possible according to the 3G rule

Events with a maximum of 2000 spectators should be possible according to the 3G rule in the Lower Saxony corona rules – so a negative corona test is also sufficient there.

Most recently, there was an upper limit of 25,000 spectators or 75 percent of the stadium capacity for football games.

Corona regulation in Lower Saxony: relaxation of the mask requirement for elementary school students as well as in bars and discos

With the easing of the mask requirement in clubs and discos, the state is also implementing a decision by the Lüneburg Higher Administrative Court: According to this, guests must wear an FFP2 mask when dancing at least until April 2nd, but may take it off when sitting and eating.

However, the FFP2 mask requirement in shops should continue to apply.

And the obligation to test for supervised children from the age of three is to be extended by two weeks.

It stipulates that the children or close relatives must submit three tests per week.

Originally, this requirement was limited to the end of the week.

As announced, three mandatory tests per week remain mandatory at schools due to the Corona rules in Lower Saxony.

As planned, the obligation to wear a mask for elementary school students during class will no longer apply on Monday.

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