Thursday, January 06, 2022
Gastronomy a problem area
Lauterbach announces new contact limits
The federal and state governments are again discussing the corona situation. Health Minister Lauterbach wants to focus primarily on the area of gastronomy. The rules that apply there are to be tightened again. Further measures are possible depending on the development.
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach pleads for further restrictions in the fight against the corona pandemic and its aggravation by the Omikron variant. “We have to limit the contacts again”, said in the program “RTL Direkt”. Specifically, the SPD politician has the restaurants in view. “Gastronomy is a problem area, because you often sit for hours without a mask.”
It is “particularly considered that we want even more security in the interior of the catering trade,” he said. You are only allowed to enter “if you have been vaccinated and tested twice”. Only those who have been boosted can use the catering trade without any further requirements.
Before tomorrow’s federal-state meeting, he also said that further contact restrictions would have to be resolved if the number of cases increases. “At the moment it looks like” that with the “contact limits that we have” and the proposed 2G-Plus rules, the infection dynamics can be cushioned so “that we do not even get into the area”.
The tightening of the measures in the catering industry are part of a resolution that ntv has submitted. Furthermore, the continuation of the existing contact restrictions is planned.