State parliament does not declare NRW a corona hotspot
Created: 03/23/2022, 19:31
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In North Rhine-Westphalia there will be no state-wide corona hotspot requirements for the time being.
The state parliament rejected a corresponding urgent application by the Greens on Wednesday evening with the votes of the government factions of the CDU and FDP and the opposition AfD.
The SPD, which itself had submitted an urgent application for a protection concept, agreed to the Green Paper.
Düsseldorf – According to the federal government’s new Infection Protection Act, the federal states can order even stricter corona measures even after the transition period that ends on April 2nd.
However, the prerequisite would be that the state parliaments first declare areas as hotspots.
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However, essential questions about the Infection Protection Act still have to be clarified, said Consumer Protection Minister Ursula Heinen-Esser on behalf of the corona-infected Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (both CDU).
There is “not yet any final clarity” as to whether an entire federal state should even be regarded as such a “local authority” named in the law and could therefore be declared a corona hotspot overall.
This also refers to the criterion that “a concrete risk of a dynamically spreading infection situation” must be presented, said Heinen-Esser.
It is unclear whether this has to be done through a nationwide or a municipally sharp view.
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