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Berlin (dpa) - In the federal-state talks on Tuesday, there will probably also be a fight for an FFP2 mask requirement in rail traffic and curfews.

"There is a selection of possibilities on the table," said Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier of the "Rheinische Post".

In addition to the FFP2 mask requirement in rail traffic and the curfews, he also mentioned a home office requirement and clearer contact restrictions.

In Bavaria, people have had to wear FFP2 protective masks on buses, trams, underground and suburban trains and in all shops since the early hours of the morning.

A night curfew also already applies in the Free State.

Before the consultations on Tuesday, Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder sees his own state in the fight against the pandemic already well positioned.

“We don't need to pull a screw anymore, I think,” said the CSU boss on the ARD talk show “Anne Will”.

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Instead, Söder called on the other countries to implement the decisions made at the Prime Minister's Conference more consistently.

"Half of the countries do something completely different," he said.

"So that you have to keep asking the question: Why do we decide something when half do it differently."

Söder called for consistent application and implementation of what was decided in Berlin.

"I also don't believe in endless differentiations - only what applies to everyone is understandable."

Söder sees the regulations in Bavaria as a kind of blueprint for federal regulations.

According to information from “Business Insiders”, the Chancellery even wants to introduce a nationwide uniform night curfew, as it already exists in France or other neighboring countries.

From the federal states, however, one can also hear that everything is currently being discussed that can be discussed.

So there is still a lot of need for coordination in front of the federal-state switch.

Today the leaders of the federal and state governments are informed about new findings by leading scientists.

"There are those who they all know," said Hesse's Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) at "Anne Will" and named the RKI President Lothar Wieler and the Charité virologist Christian Drosten.

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On the question of why the federal-state meeting on Tuesday was scheduled so quickly and why the situation is so urgent, Bouffier said: “What we cannot even assess is the British virus.

That is the reason why we are meeting now. "

This time, scientists from Great Britain will also be there.

"It will be about: What knowledge do you have."

In Great Britain, a more contagious mutation of the coronavirus has spread widely and has now also been detected in Germany.

A comparable variant has also appeared in South Africa.

There is a risk that the dynamics will accelerate again if the virus mutations continue to spread, said Altmaier.

"That is why we must now - and this is explicitly my opinion as Minister of Economic Affairs - at the Prime Minister's Conference set the course so that we can finally break the wave of infections in the next few weeks and prevent the dynamic from rising again until Easter."

SPD leader Saskia Esken spoke at "Anne Will" like Altmaier of the home office obligation: You may have to order home office in the company, she said.

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Greens parliamentary group leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt calls for an initiative to expand corona rapid tests in the fight against the virus.

"With purchase guarantees and a change in the medical device dispensing regulation, Health Minister (Jens) Spahn must ensure that sufficient rapid tests can be produced and also bought and used by private individuals," said Göring-Eckardt to the newspapers of the Funke media group.

According to Göring-Eckardt, regular rapid tests should ensure more safety in all professions in which people regularly work with changing contacts.

She cited doctors, nurses and police officers as examples.

The virologist Marylyn Addo expects the corona pandemic to ease significantly from spring and summer.

"Already because of the warmer weather and the higher vaccination rate," said the head of the Infectious Diseases Section at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung".

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