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Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Draft for Corona Summit
Schools are closed until February 15, medical masks are mandatory.
Wearing medical masks on public transport and in shops will be mandatory, according to a draft from the Chancellery for today’s Prime Minister and Chancellor’s conference. Schools will remain “generally closed” until February 15.
The Chancellery wants to enforce an extension and tightening of the crown’s measures in today’s videoconference between prime ministers and Chancellor Angela Merkel. This comes from a draft for the round, which ntv has.
After that, the applicable measures extended until February 15 be. Private meetings should continue to be “allowed between members of the household and with a maximum of one other person not living in the household.”
That is new Obligation to wear medical masks both in public transport and in shops. These are “so-called surgical masks or even virus filtering masks of the KN95 or FFP2 standards”. There is no FFP2 mask requirement as it has been in effect in Bavaria since Monday. However, everyday masks will no longer be enough for shopping or going to work.
According to the draft of the Chancellery, the federal and state governments must also formulate the objective of “the Public transport contacts reduce so that the number of passengers does not normally exceed one third of the normal number of passengers allowed on a means of transport “, so that the overall distance can be maintained.
With a view on Working at home office the draft goes beyond appeals for the first time. The Federal Ministry of Labor will issue an ordinance, “according to which employers must allow employees to work from home whenever possible, as long as activities allow after careful scrutiny.” In contrast to the areas of infection protection and schools, the federal government has a responsibility here. “For work areas in confined spaces, without adequate ventilation or without sufficient space, masks of the FFP2- / KN95 standard should be used,” he says.
The draft emphasizes that the operation of Kindergartens and schools It is of utmost importance for the education of children and the balance between family and work. However, there are indications to be taken seriously that the mutated coronavirus “is also spreading more among children and adolescents than the case of the virus known to date.” Therefore, schools will be “basically” closed until February 15th. Emergency care will be guaranteed and distance education will be offered.
According to the draft, federal state ministers of family and education ministers must also prepare for the moment when the incidence falls below a 7-day incidence of 50, reopen daycare centers, plan alternate lessons in elementary schools, and high schools according to remote rules. The years go on for planning distance education. This suggests that schools should remain closed until this incidence value is reached.
In Nursing Homes and Retirement Homes An FFP2 mask should be applied to staff when they come into contact with residents. The draft also emphasizes the importance of quick tests for visitors and employees. “It is the responsibility of the institutions to ensure that the test arrangement is fully implemented.” With personnel shortages in many places, the federal and state governments have “initiated a joint initiative to temporarily bring Bundeswehr soldiers and, in a second step, volunteers to the facility for extensive rapid tests.”
In countries and counties that “predictably” will not be able to reduce the incidence below 50 by February 15, further local or regional action will be taken in accordance with the Infection Protection Act below an incidence of 200 “provided that and extensively ” Exit restrictions I the Limitation of the range of motion to 15 km. on the place of residence. “Among other things, this point is likely to provoke discussions among prime ministers. Lower Saxony Prime Minister Stephan Weil has already rejected a nationwide curfew.
There is criticism in the draft of the EU Commission, which announced last Friday that it had already promised “too short a term”. Vaccine delivery quantities it cannot be fully met for the next two to three weeks. “The federal and state governments are asking the EU Commission in negotiations with Pfizer / BioNtech to create clarity and security for more deliveries and delivery dates as quickly as possible at least at the end of the first quarter.”
The goal is to improve Sequencing, that is, the examination of virus samples to see if they are mutated variants. Until now, due to a lack of capabilities, there is no real overview of how high the proportion of the variant first detected in Germany is now.
The health authorities will be reinforced by the federal states so that the Contact tracking “An incidence of at least up to 7 days of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants can be guaranteed throughout the country.” Students must be trained in the application of the SORMAS system so that they can intervene as assistants; SORMAS is software used for contact tracking. However, the digitization of health authorities can still be expanded. According to Netzpolitik.org, less than a third of the more than 370 health authorities in Germany have installed the program so far. According to the draft, this should also be improved.
After all, they should too Federal bridge aid III be retouched. At the EU digital summit on January 21, the federal government wants to announce “that in European countries comparable and synchronized measures are taken to detect and contain mutant viruses and reduce the total number of infections.” should also avoid further entry restrictions be. At the same time, the draft states that, according to the WHO, the EU “should be considered as an epidemic as an area”.
The introductory part of the draft emphasizes that the restrictions had come into effect since December 16, but that there are new challenges, especially virus mutations, which are significantly more infectious than the previously known variant. Since the B.1.1.7 mutation has already been detected in Germany, the federal and state governments share the opinion that the current level of knowledge requires precautionary action, because the consequences of the spread of a virus mutation with a Greater potential for contagion mean a serious worsening of the pandemic situation. I would. “Indeed, the course of infections in Ireland determines how dangerous this variant is.
