New regulation: Masks are still mandatory in the southwest

Created: 03/18/2022Updated: 03/18/2022 18:56

A passer-by carries an FFP2 mask in her hand.

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After two years of the pandemic, important corona requirements are also being abolished in the southwest.

As of this Saturday, there will no longer be any contact restrictions and the capacity limits for events will no longer apply.

With the new Corona regulation, the system with basic, warning and alarm levels is also a thing of the past, the State Ministry announced on Friday.

Stuttgart – The state is thus implementing the federal government’s new Infection Protection Act.

At the same time, the green-black state government is using a transitional rule, with which the mask requirement and access restrictions should remain in place for at least two weeks - until April 2nd.

In Baden-Württemberg, the FFP2 mask requirement continues to apply in closed rooms and on local public transport for people over the age of 18.

A medical mask is sufficient outdoors if the minimum distance cannot be maintained.

Masks are still compulsory in schools.

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Nothing should change in the existing 3G rule during the transition period until the beginning of April.

That means: Anyone who wants to go to a restaurant, a trade fair, an exhibition and many other areas of public life must be vaccinated, tested or recovered.

Clubs and discotheques are only allowed to be entered by people who have been vaccinated or who have recovered and who can show a current test.

Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) again criticized the fact that the traffic light government in the federal government changed the law in such a way that most of the corona protection rules are no longer applicable.

"The new federal infection protection law does not fit the current corona situation," said Kretschmann.

The transitional rule is therefore applied “in order to at least break the current wave as quickly as possible”.

In theory, the state can also issue further restrictions for regional so-called hotspots after April 2nd if the state parliament determines a particularly critical corona situation for them.

Whether Baden-Württemberg - like Bavaria is planning - will declare the whole country a hotspot after April 2nd is still unclear.

The state government considers the federal regulation to be difficult to implement legally.

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