DYes Bundestag Due to the corona crisis, the “national epidemic situation” has continued to be determined. On Wednesday, 325 members of Congress voted for corresponding motions put forward by the federal and SPD ruling parliamentary groups. 253 members voted against and 5 abstained. The special circumstances will initially apply for three months, that is, until the end of November. Without further confirmation by Parliament, it will expire in three months.
Among other things, the identified “epidemic situation” provides a legal basis for the country’s regulations on specific crisis measures (such as mask requirements or exposure restrictions). The Bundestag first confirmed it in March 2020 and finally confirmed the continued existence of special circumstances on June 11. According to the Infection Protection Act, it exists “if it poses a serious threat to the public health of the entire Federal Republic of Germany”.
The Bundestag calls for deviations from the incidence value
In the resolution passed by the Bundestag, Federal government Monday requested wording help for the planned deviation rate value as the decisive variable for corona measures. To this end, the “Infection Protection Law” must be amended. In the future, the number of hospitalizations related to corona should play a central role.
“Due to the progress made in vaccination, the number of new infections with Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus per 100,000 residents in 7 days is no longer a central benchmark,” said the resolution that has been passed. Therefore, the threshold previously mentioned in the law “is no longer up to date.”Therefore, the protective measures taken Coronavirus pandemic “In the future, in particular, it will be consistent with the Covid 19 hospitalization rate.”
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So far, paragraph 28a of the Infection Protection Act has stated: “If the threshold of 50 new infections per 100,000 residents is exceeded within 7 days, comprehensive protective measures will be taken to effectively control the infection. The expected process. “This paragraph should be deleted.
The Federal Minister of Health has previously called for abolishing the incidence rate Jens Spann (CDU) pronunciation. The changes to the law may be approved by the Cabinet on September 1 and passed in the Bundestag on September 7. Finally, the Federal Council will make a decision on this change at a special meeting on September 10.
On Wednesday, the Bundestag discussed another amendment to the Infection Protection Act for the first time. It involves a mandatory test for people entering Germany, which will take effect on August 1. It will now also be stipulated in the law, so far there is only one regulation. This new regulation will also be passed by the Bundestag on September 7, and the Bundestag may follow up on September 10.
In the Bundestag debate before the vote, Spann defended the extension of the epidemic emergency. “The pandemic is not over yet—as we hoped,” he said. The spread of highly contagious variants of the Delta virus “makes fighting the pandemic more difficult.”
However, Germany “overall survived the pandemic well,” the minister said. Now is the question of getting more people vaccinated: “We are vaccinating Germany to restore freedom.
