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Bayern drops the masks - and reveals Zoff: Lindner and Lauterbach contradict each other in a hurry

2022-12-06T14:27:45.991Z


Bayern drops the masks - and reveals Zoff: Lindner and Lauterbach contradict each other in a hurry Created: 06/12/2022, 15:15 By: Fabian Mueller Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) before the start of a Federal Cabinet meeting in the Federal Chancellery. (Archive image) © Michael Kappeler/dpa-Pool/dpa In Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt, the mask require


Bayern drops the masks - and reveals Zoff: Lindner and Lauterbach contradict each other in a hurry

Created: 06/12/2022, 15:15

By: Fabian Mueller

Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) before the start of a Federal Cabinet meeting in the Federal Chancellery.

(Archive image) © Michael Kappeler/dpa-Pool/dpa

In Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt, the mask requirement is to expire.

Within minutes, the traffic light coalition reveals its Zoff on the subject.

Berlin/Munich - From December 10th, the medical mask to protect against the corona virus will no longer be mandatory in Bavarian public transport.

This was announced by the Bavarian Health Minister Klaus Holetschek on Tuesday (December 6).

The reactions in the traffic light coalition could hardly be more different.

Finance Minister and FDP leader Christian Lindner welcomed Bavaria's decision, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) criticized it.

Lindner wrote on Twitter on Tuesday that it was a "right decision" that Bavaria was again relying more on personal responsibility for the corona protection measures.

"I hope that this decision will soon catch on nationwide," added Lindner.

No more masks in Bavarian public transport: Lindner and Kubicki welcome the decision

Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki was also satisfied with the Bavarian way.

He

said to

kreiszeitung.de

from

IPPEN.MEDIA : "I think the decision is right and, to be honest, it's overdue." Kubicki also exerted hardly concealed pressure on the traffic light partners.

"Of course it would be nicer if this happened nationwide.

But since our coalition partners continue to insist on the obligation to wear masks in long-distance transport, a uniform approach to public transport is not to be expected anyway.

The federal states decide the rest and nobody can expect the federal states to wait for Lower Saxony against their conviction.”

Lauterbach, on the other hand, criticized the end of the mask requirement: "I'm just not convinced of it," said the SPD politician on Tuesday in Berlin with a view to the pandemic situation.

In the conference of health ministers with the federal states, he and the President of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, once again made their concerns clear on Monday: There are no reasons to say now that masks and the isolation of corona infected people can be dispensed with.

Lauterbach referred to a more contagious virus variant to be expected, as well as other RS ​​viruses and a wave of flu.

Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt are abolishing the obligation to wear masks in public transport: does party politics play a role?

In Bavaria, the obligation to wear masks in local transport with buses and trains is to be abolished on December 10th.

This is no longer appropriate due to the current stable infection situation, according to information from government circles.

Only one mask recommendation should remain.

In Saxony-Anhalt, the mask requirement should already fall on December 8th, as the state cabinet there decided, according to government circles.

The health ministers of the federal states had not found a uniform course on masks on Monday.

Lauterbach said with a view to Bavaria and other Union-led countries that have lifted the obligation to isolate infected people: “I have the impression that party politics also plays a role here, and that shouldn’t be the case.

We should just try to stand together again this winter, like we did back then, cross-party.”

Video: From December 10th: Bavaria will abolish the obligation to wear masks on buses and trains

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The President of the German Society for Internal Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine, Christian Karagiannidis, said that wearing a mask for a long time also annoyed him.

"But if we see on the other hand that the children's hospitals are completely full of RSV, and influenza is now also happening, then it's also our contribution to society that we should make." On the one hand, you can't complain that children's hospitals are being flooded, and on the other hand withdraw such measures.

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Source: merkur

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