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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - The new North Rhine-Westphalian Corona regional ordinance to restrict the radius of movement in hotspots is "half-hearted and poorly done" from the point of view of the SPD.

The regulation published late on Monday evening creates “more confusion than clarity”, criticized SPD parliamentary group leader Thomas Kutschaty on Tuesday in the “morning echo” of the radio station WDR 5.

Since Tuesday, the radius of movement in corona hotspots in NRW has been limited to 15 kilometers around your own place of residence.

Requirements: The municipality has a new infection rate of "well over 200" calculated per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days and the infections are not just "limited to individual facilities".

However, there are exceptions, for example for the «handling of professional, official, voluntary and comparable errands».

The new ordinance initially affected the districts of Höxter, Minden-Lübbecke, Recklinghausen and the Oberbergische Kreis.

Kutschaty criticized the municipalities being left alone to make decisions in many areas.

It is also questionable whether a Lord Mayor can determine how far citizens are allowed to travel or how far away from their place of residence, warned the former NRW Minister of Justice.

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The Frankfurt legal scholar Uwe Volkmann expressed doubts as to whether a restriction of the range of motion to reduce the risk of infection even made sense.

After all, almost all areas in Germany are now risk areas, he said in “Morgenecho”.

Restrictions on fundamental rights are only possible under very strict conditions.

Proportionality must be maintained.

The North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament wanted to discuss the measures of the state government in the tightened corona lockdown in a special session on Tuesday afternoon.

The SPD opposition had applied for the meeting after the CDU / FDP state government had partly deviated from the federal-state resolutions.

Corona regional regulation

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Communication from the city of Gelsenkirchen