On Monday, Baden-Württemberg and four other federal states failed at the conference of health ministers with their attempt to extend the corona rules by several weeks or to change the infection protection law again.
Criticism of the hotspot rule
The state government of Baden-Württemberg – just like in North Rhine-Westphalia or Hesse – is of the opinion that the hotspot rule cannot be applied preventively. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) said exactly that on Monday (March 28). He called on the federal states to make use of the regulation and not only to declare cities and districts with particularly high levels of infection, but also an entire federal state as a hotspot. The state government of Baden-Württemberg rejects this, Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) and other members of the green-black coalition recently sharply criticized the traffic light coalition in the federal government for its approach to the recent change in the Infection Protection Act.
Kretschmann: We also adhere to bad federal laws
Kretschmann said in Stuttgart on Tuesday that the federal government had taken away important instruments for fighting the pandemic from the federal states. “But it would have been right to give us the tool box so that we could use the instruments as things stand.” Now you run after the problems that you have created yourself. “We abide by federal laws. And we also abide by bad laws,” says Kretschmann. Kretschmann and his government consider the legal hurdles for applying the hotspot rule to be too high. Your concern: A preventive and nationwide use of the hotspot rule could result in lawsuits against the measures, and courts could possibly collect the measures again. A legal opinion commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs in Baden-Württemberg also came to the conclusion that the hotspot rule cannot be applied with legal certainty in the state.
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An overview of what remains – and which measures will no longer exist.
The Infection Protection Act no longer provides for contact restrictions or upper limits for events. So everyone can meet with everyone, events can again take place in front of a full house.
Masks no longer have to be worn in the sold-out football stadium or in the concert hall. In general, the mask requirement falls also in most indoor spaces – even in schools. However, the end of the mask requirement does not mean that masks can no longer be worn. Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) and Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) recently appealed to continue to wear a mask voluntarily, especially indoors. By the way: Supermarkets, for example, could enforce house rules that masks have to be worn when shopping.
Beyond April 3rd Masks remain mandatory to protect against Corona in the following facilities:
in community accommodation for refugees
in public transport, i.e. buses and trains, as well as in planes and passenger ships
in doctor’s offices
in hospitals
in outpatient surgery facilities
in prevention or rehabilitation clinics
in dialysis facilities
in day clinics
in outpatient care services, for example for intensive care in facilities, residential groups or other forms of communal living
in fully or partially inpatient facilities for the care and accommodation of elderly people, people with disabilities or people in need of care. Exception: offers for support in everyday life § 45a, paragraph 1, sentence 2 of the Eleventh Book of the Social Code
in homeless shelters
in the rescue service
There are no mandatory tests anywhere except in the following facilities:
in day care centers
in schools
in hospitals
in outpatient care services for outpatient intensive care in facilities, residential groups or other communal forms of living
in full or partial inpatient facilities for the care and accommodation of elderly, disabled or people in need of care or comparable facilities, as well as for outpatient care services and companies that provide services there. Exception: offers for support in everyday life § 45a, paragraph 1, sentence 2 of the Eleventh Book of the Social Code
in community accommodation for refugees
in prisons, detention centers awaiting deportation and correctional facilities as well as facilities with long-term deprivation of liberty accommodation, in particular psychiatric hospitals, homes for youth welfare and for senior citizens
Access restrictions play a role in the everyday life of many people Vaccination or recovery status no longer matters from Sunday (April 3). . Rules such as 2G Plus or 3G are no longer applicable. Also in clubs and discotheques you can celebrate again without restrictions. Only in the above-mentioned facilities – such as daycare centers, schools, hospitals or in the emergency services – will there still be a test obligation and thus access restrictions. This test obligation is independent of the vaccination or recovery status.
In care, the institution-related corona vaccination applies nationwide.
Where vaccination, recovery status or test results continue to play a role is at Travel abroad and the Entry to Germany . What rules does the EU have when entering other EU countries reopen.eu summarized. When entering Germany , persons aged 12 and over must carry proof of their vaccination, their convalescence status or a negative test result. Antigen or PCR test results must not be older than 48 hours. Anyone entering the country from a virus variant area must present a negative PCR test result. Further information from the Federal Foreign Office is available here.
Yes, the obligation to report a corona disease and the rules on quarantine and isolation remain in place. Contacts of infected people do not have to be quarantined if they have a booster vaccination, have just been double-vaccinated or have just recovered. A period of up to three months is considered “fresh”.
Quarantine or Isolation: What’s the Difference?
In quarantine Those who are suspected of having a corona infection must go. For example, because they are in close contact with a person who has been proven to be infected.
Those who have already been diagnosed with an infection must isolate themselves. In Isolation So everyone who has the coronavirus themselves has to.
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Ten days of quarantine apply to infected or non-vaccinated contact persons, which can be shortened: after seven days with a negative PCR or a certified rapid test.
For students who are considered contact persons, the quarantine period can be shortened after just five days with a negative PCR or rapid antigen test. Otherwise, the quarantine period is also ten days and can be shortened after seven days with a negative PCR test or a certified rapid antigen test.
Baden-Wuerttemberg
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New quarantine rules for corona infected people and contact persons have been in force in Baden-Württemberg since January 12. In some cases, the quarantine is not required – earlier free testing is possible.more…
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Employees of hospitals, nursing homes and integration assistance facilities can only end the quarantine early with a negative PCR test and after 48 hours of being symptom-free.
However, the federal and state health ministers decided on Monday to review the quarantine and isolation rules. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is to clarify “whether and for how long it is advisable to isolate infected people and contact persons in the current pandemic phase”.
So-called basic protective measures must be taken at work by May 25th. Employers absolutely need a hygiene concept , in which they define measures to protect against infection that are suitable for the respective work situation and the premises. This can still be:
Minimum distance of 1.50 meters
Reduce personal contact in the company, for example by avoiding or reducing the simultaneous use of rooms by several people through home office
Ventilation of indoor spaces that are used by several people to protect against infection in order to reduce the viral load there
Masks are compulsory wherever technical or organizational measures do not offer sufficient protection
regular operational test offers
Since March 20, the 3G rule in the workplace has already been abolished – exceptions are such as hospitals above under mandatory testing executed. There is also no longer a home office requirement.
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