Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann has defended the proposed corona protection concept for autumn and winter with possible mask requirements indoors. “I would prefer if we didn’t need any more measures at all,” said the FDP politician to “Bild am Sonntag”.
“However, many scientists – including critical ones – assume that the health system will be under a lot of stress.” “Therefore we want to work with the mildest means. This is the mask.”
Buschmann and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) presented the concept on Wednesday. Your draft for the Infection Protection Act provides that the federal states may again impose mask requirements from October.
A mask requirement in buses, trains and planes should therefore continue to apply nationwide, as well as a mask and test requirement in hospitals and care facilities. The federal states should decide for themselves whether they also require masks in publicly accessible indoor areas.
There is a lot of criticism of the plan to exempt people from wearing masks in restaurants or at cultural and sporting events if their vaccination is not older than three months. In addition, there should be exceptions for tested and newly recovered people.
“The exceptions to the mask requirement indoors are intended to give operators more leeway for entrepreneurial responsibility,” emphasized Buschmann. “An operator can, for example, organize an indoor public viewing for the World Cup and only let in visitors with tests, so that there is normality at the event without a mask with a very low risk.
Because the domiciliary rights of every operator enable him to make use of only some of the exceptions or of no exception at all.”
