Corona: Higher Administrative Court overturns hotspot regulation in MV
Created: 04/22/2022Updated: 04/22/2022, 16:03
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The controversial hotspot regulation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was overturned by a court a few days before it expired.
This means that elementary corona protection measures have become obsolete.
Greifswald - The higher administrative court in Greifswald overturned the corona hotspot regulation for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Friday.
The court granted an application for temporary legal protection on important points.
A court spokeswoman said that the protective measures that had been suspended affected in particular the distance requirement and the obligation to wear a medical mask or respiratory mask.
The state government had already largely lifted the 3G rule (vaccinated, recovered, tested) on Maundy Thursday.
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On March 24, the state parliament in Schwerin declared the entire federal state a corona hotspot in order to be able to continue the protective measures in force across the board.
According to the court, the particularly high number of new corona infections and an impending overload of hospital capacities should have been determined individually for each district and city in order to declare them a hotspot.
The judges complained that this did not happen.
Without the decision of the state parliament, most protective measures under the Federal Infection Protection Act would have ended at the beginning of April - that's how it happened in most federal states.
Only Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Hamburg declared themselves completely corona hotspots.
In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, on the other hand, the AfD parliamentary group went to court.
The hotspot regulation had been decided in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to last until April 27th.
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