Saturday April 24th 2021
Ministry of Justice plan
Restrictions for vaccinated people should fall
On Monday, the federal-state group will come together for another corona meeting. According to a report, the Prime Minister and Chancellor Merkel will then talk about a plan by the Federal Ministry of Justice. This wants to give back vaccinated and convalescent their freedoms.
Vaccinated and recovered from Covid-19 could possibly be exempted from the new nationwide corona restrictions, which apply immediately. A submission from the Federal Ministry of Justice advocates for the coming federal-state summit on Monday, reports the “Bild” newspaper.
According to the current findings of the Robert Koch Institute, it can be assumed that those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered have a lower risk of infecting other people than those who tested negative in an antigen test, “” Bild quotes from the draft. Therefore, “relief or exceptions should also be provided for vaccinated persons and genesis”.
In some cases, these groups of people would even have to be “better off than those who tested negative in an antigen test”, according to “Bild” in the template. This is the only way to ensure “the constitutionally required proportionality of the protective measures”.
No more testing or quarantine requirements
According to the report, the proposal is still being voted on. It is currently planned that those who have been vaccinated for at least 14 days and those who have recovered will be exempted from contact restrictions “up to six months after the recovery has been established”.
When traveling, the obligation to perform compulsory tests before departure and to quarantine after return should be dropped. In shops and markets, cultural institutions as well as in sports and body-friendly services, there should also no longer be a test requirement for this group of people. Insofar as federal states provide for test obligations or restrictions, for example in outdoor catering, vaccinated and convalescent people should also be excluded, “Bild” quoted from the template.
According to the report, the Ministry of Justice emphasizes in its paper that it is not about granting special rights or privileges, but about lifting unjustified encroachments on fundamental rights.
Altmaier doubts a quick solution
Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier believes that a quick withdrawal of the restrictions is unlikely. “Currently over 20 percent have received a primary vaccination,” he told the newspapers of the Funke media group. He assumes “that we can talk about exceptions in June or July”. Politicians are heavily reliant on the expertise of science.
“I believe that people who have been vaccinated will get more freedom back – at the latest when a vaccination offer can be made to all those who want to be vaccinated,” added the minister.
The regulations for the nationwide corona emergency brake came into force on Saturday. For areas with a seven-day incidence of 100 or more new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, they provide, among other things, contact restrictions and a night curfew.
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