Holetschek dismayed by the new corona rules: "How are you supposed to get a vaccination every three months?"

Created: 08/09/2022, 09:00

By: Tanja Kipke

A new federal infection protection law is intended to counteract the corona wave in autumn.

Bavaria sharply criticizes the rules – and calls for tightening.

Munich – The corona numbers in Germany have been increasing rapidly for a few weeks.

According to the RKI, the 7-day incidence in Bavaria is currently 382.7.

The district of Kulmbach leads the list in the Free State with 807.8.

In order to counteract a possible autumn wave, a new infection protection law is to come.

Last week (August 3rd) Ministers of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) and Marco Buschmann (FDP) presented the plans.

Since then there has been criticism – especially from Bavaria.

New Corona rules cause criticism: Holetschek reacts with incomprehension

"The previous draft law has clear gaps," said State Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) of the German Press Agency in Munich.

The federal government must therefore, among other things, sharpen the criteria with which the federal states could decide and implement more effective measures to protect against corona infections.

Söders Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) calls for improvements with regard to the federal Corona Infection Protection Act.

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This Tuesday (9 August), the federal and state health ministers want to discuss the draft presented last week in the Health Ministers' Conference (GMK).

"I have my doubts that there will already be a round and coherent law after the GMK," said Holetschek.

However, it is the first opportunity so far for the ministers of the federal states to contribute their opinions and experiences.

"It is important that the little things between the FDP and SPD in the traffic light coalition are over now and that we put the law on a solid technical foundation.

Its Time."

Federal Infection Protection Act: Mask regulation "not technically justifiable"

Holetschek sees a concrete need for clarification, for example in the case of wastewater monitoring and the so-called RKI surveillance, "where unfortunately it is completely unclear which values ​​and data we can use as an alarm signal".

The core of the federal concept is the wearing of FFP2 or medical masks.

An FFP2 mask requirement in long-distance trains and planes should continue to apply nationwide.

The countries should also decide for themselves whether they require FFP2 masks in publicly accessible indoor spaces.

“Some points in the draft law do not seem to have been thought through to the end.

In any case, we have to talk about the planned exceptions to mask requirements for those who have just been vaccinated and those who have recovered," said Holetschek.

These cannot be technically justified, since those who have just been vaccinated and those who have recovered could also transmit infections.

"I also wonder how the planned exceptions to the mask requirement are to be checked and implemented on site at all."

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Holetschek indignant: "How are people supposed to get a vaccination every three months?"

He also does not think it makes sense not to recognize a triple or quadruple vaccination after just three months, as long as the Standing Vaccination Commission (STIKO) does not have a broad vaccination recommendation for the fourth vaccination.

“How are people supposed to get a vaccination every three months?

I would appreciate it if the STIKO commented promptly or spoke about it at a meeting of the Health Ministers' Conference."

The health policy spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group in the Bavarian state parliament, Dominik Spitzer, sees it similarly.

The exemption from the mask requirement “simply makes no sense”, the BR quotes him as saying.

"It would not be possible to convey this with the current virus variant, since vaccinated people can also transmit the virus," said the politician.