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When imposing or relaxing corona measures, other criteria should become more important in addition to the incidence value.
The legal and health politicians of the CDU / CSU and SPD parliamentary groups agreed on Tuesday to amend the Infection Protection Act, as both sides confirmed.
In the future, the number of people vaccinated against Covid-19 and the R value should also be taken into account.
The innovations could already be decided on Thursday in the Bundestag.
The R value shows how many others an infected person infects.
The R value is currently 1.01.
If it is longer than one, a pandemic spreads.
"It was important for us as the SPD to take up the information from the case law," said SPD parliamentary group vice-president Dirk Wiese WELT.
“The courts recently decided that it is not enough to just look at the incidence value when imposing protective measures.
Other factors such as the vaccination rate or R-value should also be taken into account when taking drastic protective measures. "
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“In addition, it is expressly pointed out in the explanatory memorandum that these two criteria are not exhaustive and that the utilization of the health care system must also be taken into account,” said the legal policy spokesman for the SPD parliamentary group, Johannes Fechner.
According to Union parliamentary group Vice Thorsten Frei (CDU), the incidence value remains the most striking and important early indicator for determining the risk of infection.
With the changes, the Infection Protection Act is now being developed in accordance with the new situation.
“If people over 80 are increasingly vaccinated, the number of those using the health system for severe disease will decrease.
In future, this must be taken into account when determining protective measures, ”said Frei WELT.
In addition, the higher infectivity of virus mutations would be taken into account.
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According to Fechner's ideas, the powers of Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) should also be restricted during the current "epidemic situation of national scope".
These are so far imprecisely described in the law and should be limited to those measures that are explicitly mentioned in the law.
The chairman of the AfD parliamentary group, Alexander Gauland, called for a fundamental move away from incidence values.
Rather, the decisive factor is the number of sick people and the current burden on the health system.
Retail, gastronomy, cultural institutions and popular sports should be fully opened immediately.