Jena is serious!
The city in Thuringia (108,000 inhabitants) introduces a mask requirement for public spaces.
Anyone who uses local public transport, supermarkets and public buildings must wear mouth and nose protection from Monday (scarves and scarves are allowed).
The phase in which the introduction of the virus from outside has to be slowed is over, Jena Mayor Thomas Nitzsche (44, FDP) told BILD. “Now it’s about preventing the spread within the city. The best way to achieve this is with the masks. These are not there to protect the wearer, but the people around them. “
Nitzsche has been wearing mouthguards for two weeks, had to be quarantined after contact with an infected person, and was tested negatively. “So I could be on the road again without protection, but I would also like to set a good example.”
Jena submits – does the mask requirement for everyone?
Austria has already introduced such a requirement for supermarket purchases that every customer is given mouth-nose protection at the entrance to the store. This could also be extended to jobs, said Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (33).
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In Bulgaria, a mask requirement was withdrawn yesterday after just one day. The reason was a wave of lawsuits against the order …
But: What is true in Austria has been a blueprint for Bavaria in the past few weeks – and then the rest of the Federal Republic …
Hanaus Lord Mayor Claus Kaminsky (60, SPD) imposes no obligation, but calls for participation: “If everyone wears a mask, everyone is helped.”
As BILD learned from the top of the Union, a general mask requirement is no longer excluded in the GroKo. Problem: At present, professional breathing masks are still in short supply in Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (65, CDU) considers the face mask to be only the second most important measure.
In the first place, it is clear that “keep your distance!”, They say from their surroundings. Health Minister Jens Spahn (39) said clearly yesterday: “I see no reason for an obligation.”
Even Thuringia’s Minister of Health Heike Werner (51, left) criticized the advance of the city of Jena: “At the moment, I don’t think it makes sense to wear a mask. That gives a false sense of security. “
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While the politicians are still arguing, the parcel deliverers are clearly calling for more masks for the 250,000 employees: “The deliverers come to the people at the apartment door, old or young, healthy or sick,” says Marten Bosselmann (46), Head of the Federal Association for Parcel and Express Logistics (DPD, UPS, Hermes), about BILD.
They bring medication and food, are indispensable. It would help you if there were more masks on the market …
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