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Foreign Minister Maas believes that those vaccinated against the crown should be able to go to restaurants or cinemas before others, and this is causing irritation among his colleagues. The Ministry of Health makes it clear: there can be no exceptions.
Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas meets clear resistance from the federal government with his call to lift crown restrictions on vaccinated people. Both the SPD-led Ministry of Justice and the CDU-led Ministry of Health rejected the SPD politician’s initiative.
“Interferences with civil liberties must always be well justified. But as long as it is not clear whether a vaccinated person can transmit the virus, there can be no exceptions,” a Health Ministry spokesman told Reuters.
The Ministry of Justice referred to a statement by the head of the department, Christine Lambrecht, a few days ago. “This still applies,” emphasized a spokesperson. The SPD politician had said in an interview that it is forbidden to treat vaccinated people differently from unvaccinated people, if only because there is no scientific evidence that the vaccine protects against transmission of the virus.
The Federal Foreign Office has just voted against the special rights
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer also strictly rejected special rights and warned against a division in society. As an argument against special rights, it is also cited that most people cannot even be vaccinated yet.
The federal government was also irritated that the Foreign Ministry had just accepted the new entry regulation that there should be no special rights for vaccinated people.
Maas: “Vaccinated people should be able to exercise their basic rights”
In an interview, Maas spoke out in favor of people being able to visit restaurants or cinemas earlier than the rest of the population after the corona vaccination. “People vaccinated should be able to exercise their basic rights again,” Maas told “Bild am Sonntag.” He cited access to restaurants and cinemas as examples.
“It has not yet been conclusively clarified to what extent people who have been vaccinated can infect others. What is clear, however, is that a person who has been vaccinated will no longer take a ventilator from anyone. This means that at least one of the main reasons for restricting basic rights is removed. “
Maas also reminded operators of currently closed restaurants, cinemas, theaters and museums. “They have the right to reopen their businesses at some point if the possibility exists. And that is when more and more people are vaccinated. Because once there are only people vaccinated in the restaurant or the cinema, they can no longer do it.” endanger each other. “The SPD politician called the debate so far” misleading “because it was not about privileges for vaccinated people, but the exercise of basic rights. The state has greatly restricted this with the rules of the crown.
