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Last Tuesday, Berlin quickly decided on a mask requirement on public transport, ahead of many other federal states. Then all other federal states opted for a mask requirement on public transportation AND in stores, only Berlin was the only federal state that didn’t comply, and now, suddenly, the mask requirement in the supermarket comes in less 24 hours!
Starting Wednesday, Berliners will have to wear mouth and nose protection when shopping to limit transmission of the coronavirus. The Senate approved a corresponding regulation for commerce on Tuesday, according to information from the German Press Agency.
Berlin is the last federal state to go this route. Since Monday, the obligation to cover the mouth and nose has been in force for buses, subways and S-Bahn. For this purpose, a simple surgical mask, if a scarf or cloth is also necessary, is sufficient. This is verified randomly, like tickets. However, there are no fines. Instead, non-goalkeepers are asked to get off at the next station.
The Berliner The Senate decided on the retail mask requirement starting Wednesday, according to Interior Senator Andreas Geisel, primarily because of the occupational health and safety of employees in stores, supermarkets, and shopping malls. But there is a second reason: “We were encouraged by the success of the mask requirement on local public transportation,” the SPD politician said Tuesday. It has been in effect since Monday and, according to the traffic administration, is followed by 95 to 98 percent of passengers.
For business, the red-red-green Senate initially waived that requirement and left it with an urgent recommendation. However he stood up Berlin Only there: All other federal states decided in the previous week to wear a mask for local public transportation and retail.
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Most Berliners would also have wanted an oral protection obligation in retail, according to the current Berlin trend of Infratest Dimap on behalf of rbb- “Abendschau” and “Berliner Morgenpost”. Then 60 percent of the respondents spoke in favor. 22 percent think the restriction on public transportation is correct. 17 percent said they shouldn’t wear mouth protection. From Wednesday to Saturday, 1002 Berliners were interviewed representative.
Who was in favor, who was against?
The demand for a mask requirement in retail, which was raised very clearly by the CDU, for example, was also followed by the SPD only three days after the Senate decision last week, which may not necessarily have a say in the red-red-green coalition, but he’s finally part of it and continues to represent the mayor with Michael Müller.
State Vice President Iris Spranger said Friday that retailers should be treated in the same way as public transportation regarding the obligation to wear a mask. The leader of the SPD parliamentary group, Raed Saleh, who, along with the Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Franziska Giffey Müller, wants to succeed him as leader of the SPD country, jumped on his side. And then also Social Democratic Senator Dilek Kalayci, who has already been noted several times as an intransigent insider in terms of health protection, repeated the demand for a mask requirement in the supermarket. “So I think an obligation is inevitable there,” he said.
Opponents of such considerations do not like to make the wearing of masks mandatory. They are more committed to volunteering and expect most of those who see the benefits to cover their mouths and noses, even if the Senate does not explicitly tell them to do so. Such voices were heard from both the greens and the left.
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