12:54 pm | Rally in Dortmund prohibited
In Dortmund, a meeting of anti-vaccination opponents announced for today has been banned. As the police announced, the events in Kassel and violations during demonstrations against the Corona requirements in Dresden and Berlin led to the decision. The decision is justified, among other things, with the violent actions of protesters in Kassel against police officers and counter-demonstrators. This suggests that peaceful expression of opinion is not the goal of the movement in Dortmund either. It can also be assumed that the current hygiene measures will not be observed.
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12:12 pm | Compulsory testing for companies in conversation
The federal government wants to make companies more subject to infection protection. Where work in the home office is not possible, tests would have to be offered, according to the draft resolution for the consultations with the federal states tomorrow. At least two rapid tests should be offered every week, reports the Reuters agency with reference to the draft. The federal government wants to issue regulations by the end of March.
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12:03 pm | Test and quarantine requirements for trips abroad
For foreign travelers such as Mallorca vacationers, the federal government is apparently aiming for a test and quarantine obligation. In particular, vacation trips abroad would have to be “independent of incidences in the destination country with an epidemiologically required quarantine and an obligation to test before returning home and when entering the Federal Republic”, Reuters quotes today from a template for tomorrow’s deliberations by the federal and state governments.
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12:00 pm | Polish commuters ask for help with tests
Cross-border commuters from Poland are demanding financial help with the compulsory tests for the corona virus. The citizens’ initiative “Free Borders” demanded that Germany should find a solution in which those affected would not have to pay for the tests. Stricter regulations now apply to travel across the border (see below).
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11:28 am | Because for the new Mallorca travel warning
Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil wants a new travel warning for Mallorca. “The lifting of the travel warning for Mallorca by the federal government was a serious mistake,” the editorial network Germany quotes the SPD politician: “It would be best for the federal government to revise its decision.” Otherwise, strict testing requirements for re-entry and quarantine would have to be discussed. Because: “When people from all over Europe come together on the island over Easter, we immediately have a new hotspot again.”
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10:50 am | More than 180 infections in the Bundestag
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, 183 cases of infection had been registered in the Bundestag until March 18. According to the Bundestag administration, 31 MPs were infected, 38 of their employees, 41 employees of the parliamentary groups, 61 in the Bundestag administration and twelve employees from external companies, i.e. craftsmen, cleaning staff and other service providers. According to the information, however, the infections themselves did not necessarily always occur in the Bundestag.
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10:06 am | Opponent of the vaccination is no longer allowed to work
In Israel, employees who refuse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus or regularly tested may be prevented from returning to work. That was decided by a labor court in Tel Aviv in a judgment published today. An elementary school assistant teacher had refused both vaccination and tests and sued against the lockout by her employer. The court dismissed the lawsuit on the grounds that their rights did not outweigh the “right of students, parents and teachers to life”. At the same time, the court called on the legislature to quickly clarify this issue. In Israel, employers outside the education sector also refuse to allow test and vaccination objectors to return to work.
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09:47 am | No vaccine donations from the EU for the time being
According to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the EU will not make any vaccine donations available to poorer countries for the time being. Von der Leyen told the Sunday newspapers of the Funke media group that the EU was already supporting the Covax initiative financially with 2.2 billion euros, which should give poorer countries access to coronavirus vaccines. The EU will only start an additional mechanism to share vaccines with other countries “when we have a better production situation in the EU”. For the time being, however, there is still “a lot of pressure in the member states to get vaccines themselves”.
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09:14 am | CSU draws conclusions from the mask affair
The CSU leadership wants to draw conclusions from the mask affair. Party leader Markus Söder and General Secretary Markus Blume have scheduled a press conference in Munich at short notice this afternoon. It was about the “fundamental consequences of the misconduct of individual elected officials,” said the announcement this morning. It remained open at first, which ones could be.
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08:56 am | Protests in France
On the German-French border, demonstrations took place against the rules for entering Germany. In Sarreguemines in the Moselle administrative district, for example, around 600 demonstrators yesterday evening demanded, above all, the abolition of mandatory tests for commuters.
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08:25 am | Arrests during lockdown protests in London
Dozens of people have been arrested in London during protests against the lockdown in Great Britain. Thousands of protesters marched from Hyde Park through the center of the British capital yesterday. Afterwards, around 100 of them returned to Hyde Park, engaged in scuffle with police officers and threw bottles and cans at the officers. According to the police, 33 people had been arrested by the evening, most of them for violating infection control requirements.
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8:10 am | Patient advocates criticize resolutions
The German Foundation for Patient Protection rejects the loosening of the vaccination sequence decided by the federal and state governments. President Eugen Brysch said it needed a vaccination rate of 85 percent for those over 80 and 70 percent for those over 70. He called on Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) to oblige the resident doctors to offer vaccinations only to those over 70 years of age. Otherwise, the inclusion of the practices could lead to an exacerbation of the unequal treatment.
The federal and state governments had decided that, presumably after Easter, resident doctors can also start vaccinations against the corona virus. In doing so, they should adhere to the vaccination sequence prescribed by the federal government, but they should be able to handle it flexibly according to group.
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