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In Berlin, too, the obligation to wear masks should soon be history
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Without a mask on the bus and train?
The obligation to wear mouth and nose protection in local public transport is now also to be abolished in Berlin, Brandenburg, Thuringia, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Saxony.
In Saxony, January 16 is the day.
Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania will follow on February 2nd, Thuringia on February 3rd.
This was announced by the state governments.
This means that the obligation to wear a mask on buses and trains is now also being lifted in federal states that are not managed by the Union.
In Thuringia, the corona isolation obligation will then no longer apply.
In three federal states, the mask is no longer mandatory in local public transport: in Bavaria, Saxony-Anhalt and also in Schleswig-Holstein since New Year's Day.
»Thuringia has again been the state with the lowest seven-day incidence for a few days.
The number of hospitalizations and the situation in the intensive care units has been stable in the low range for weeks," Health Minister Heike Werner (left) justified the step.
On Tuesday, the seven-day incidence in Thuringia was 74.3 – nationwide the value was 136.6.
According to the information, the obligation to isolate should also be eliminated at the same time.
Berlin and Brandenburg prefer the end of the mask requirement
In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, this is to be canceled about four weeks after the end of the mask requirement in local transport.
An exact date was not set in the cabinet meeting because coordination with other federal states was still ongoing, said a spokesman for Health Minister Stefanie Drese (SPD).
The mask requirement in medical practices and hospitals therefore continues to apply.
This is regulated by the federal government.
The Federal Infection Protection Act initially applies until April 7th.
According to Health Minister Petra Köpping (SPD), the cabinet in Saxony also agreed to end the obligation to wear masks on buses and trains, but the obligation to isolate remains.
In Berlin, the Senate, in consultation with Brandenburg, decided to bring the end of the mask requirement forward - and not to keep it until at least mid-February.
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