Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) has spoken out in favor of lifting all corona restrictions as soon as all people in Germany have received a vaccination offer.
"This can be expected in the course of August," said Maas of the German press agency and the "Süddeutsche Zeitung".
"If everyone in Germany has a vaccination offer, there is no longer any legal or political justification for any restriction."
The chairman of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, had previously made a similar statement.
"By September at the latest, a vaccination offer will be available for everyone who wants to be vaccinated, then almost all corona measures will have to go," he told the "Bild" newspaper.
"Everyone can then still decide individually whether he or she wants to keep wearing the mask - but then it should no longer be an obligation."
Union considers lifting of protective measures to be "constitutionally imperative"
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) has promised that everyone in Germany should receive a vaccination offer by September 21st.
Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) now assumes that this may be the case as early as the end of July.
The former Justice Minister Maas had already advocated lifting restrictions on vaccinated people shortly after the start of the vaccination campaign in January. "Vaccinated people should be allowed to exercise their basic rights again," said the SPD politician at the time of "Bild am Sonntag". He had to take a lot of criticism for this because it was not yet clear at the time whether people who had been vaccinated could spread the virus further.
The legal policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Jan-Marco Luczak, now made a statement similar to Maas. "The lifting of protective measures is constitutionally mandatory," he told the "Welt" (Tuesday). The previous measures were correct and necessary to get the pandemic under control. “If, however, harm to oneself and others is almost completely excluded from a scientific point of view, there is no longer any room for restrictions.” Interventions in people's basic rights require legitimation, which is lacking if there is no longer any risk of infection.
The deputy FDP chairman Wolfgang Kubicki is also urging that the corona restrictions be lifted soon.
"At the latest as soon as all those willing to vaccinate have received a vaccination, the measures must be lifted," said the Bundestag Vice President.
“The federal government says that this will be the case by the end of summer.
Anything else would mean continuing the restrictions on fundamental rights indefinitely. "
The Greens health politician Kordula Schulz-Asche spoke out against a general exemption from the restrictions.
The maintenance of the restrictions must be based on the current Corona situation, and in this context the delta variant is "worrying".