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reCriticism of the accommodation ban is getting louder. Numerous politicians are calling for the regulation that was approved last week to be withdrawn. Berlin’s ruling mayor Michael Müller (SPD) and North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) announced that they would also discuss this at the Prime Minister’s Conference on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Federal Economy Minister Peter Altmaier (CDU) promised additional help to restaurateurs and hoteliers suffering losses due to restrictions.
The president of the German Association of Cities, the mayor of Leipzig, Burkhard Jung, spoke in favor of lifting the accommodation ban for travelers from the risk areas of Corona. The regulation “was not well thought out, you will have to take it up again,” the SPD politician told the newspapers of the Funke media group. “Because we have no evidence that hotels or bus and train traffic are critical points. Hot spots come up completely different. “
Most federal states decided on Wednesday that citizens of places with a very high number of corona infections can only be housed when traveling within Germany if they can present a negative corona test that is no more than 48 hours old. This should work for travelers from areas with more than 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days.
“None of this makes sense.”
SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”: “A mistake was made, it must be clarified.” No study shows that traveling within Germany is a driver of a pandemic. “So I am not solving a problem with these rules because there is no problem.” The limit of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants will be exceeded in a very short time in many parts of Germany. Furthermore, many details of the regulation seemed arbitrary. “If you keep rules like these anyway, you lose popular support for rules that are meaningful and important.”
Berlin Mayor Michael Müller announced that accommodation bans will be discussed again at the Prime Minister’s Conference on Wednesday. “Now we are seeing nationwide how the numbers … are increasing in all major cities. Accommodation bans, for example between Berlin and Brandenburg, do not make sense, “said the SPD politician on Sunday night on the ZDF program” Berlin direkt “. “We have hundreds of thousands of travelers every day. They are found in retail, in local transportation, at work. And besides, a Berliner cannot spend two days in the Spreewald. None of that makes sense. “
North Rhine-Westphalia Prime Minister Laschet said his country had anchored a corresponding regulation, but had not put it into effect. “If something explodes in a region, you have to react differently than if you now have 30 cities and districts in Germany that have exceeded the corresponding value,” he told the ZDF “heute journal” on Sunday night. If everyone were released so they could travel, the valuable testing capabilities would not be used sensibly. “I think we should talk about it again.”
