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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - A good week before the planned nationwide introduction of “Sormas”, around a third of the health authorities in North Rhine-Westphalia are not yet on board with the Corona software.
Of the 53 health authorities, 38 had installed the uniform software for contact tracking or were already using it, the Ministry of Economic Affairs reported on Friday at a dpa request.
This means that the number of installations has almost doubled in the past two weeks alone.
“We are in close contact with the remaining health authorities so that they can become standardized by the end of February.
We are optimistic that we will succeed », said Minister of Economic Affairs Andreas Pinkwart (FDP).
The federal government has released an expansion of functions, which means a considerable improvement in the work of the offices.
Pinkwart recently announced that the country reserves the right to order the use of Sormas by decree if necessary.
According to Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU), the municipalities that use "Sormas" or are preparing for it include Düsseldorf, Essen, Bielefeld, Bochum, Bonn, Gelsenkirchen, Hamm, Hagen, Herne, Münster, Oberhausen, Mönchengladbach , Solingen and Wuppertal.
Cologne is missing from the list published on Friday for the Düsseldorf state parliament, which reflects the status of February 16 and includes 33 municipalities.
In mid-January, the federal and state governments decided to introduce it across Germany by the end of February.
Criticism had come from central municipal associations.
According to the NRW district council, five of the districts' 31 health departments have installed “Sormas” and 13 districts are “open-minded”, said a spokeswoman on request on Friday.
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The 13 other district health offices are still reluctant, also because "the software solutions they have already used have added value in other areas that would no longer exist with" Sormas "."
In some respects the new software means disadvantages or even a step backwards from the point of view of the skeptics.
An order from the state by decree would be “an encroachment on local self-government, for which we believe there is currently no legal basis,” the association said.
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