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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - Even before the federal emergency brake came into force, many cities in North Rhine-Westphalia with high numbers of corona infections abolished the possibility of going to museums or shopping with a negative rapid test.
This emerges from an overview from the Ministry of Health, which was made available on request on Thursday.
The Corona Protection Ordinance, which has been in force since the end of March, has so far allowed cities and districts with a longer-lasting seven-day incidence of 100 to take the so-called test option despite the emergency brake. At the time, the majority of cities and districts decided in favor of this, but in the past few days the number of those who now consistently take the brakes on shopping has grown: According to the Ministry of Health, the cities of Bielefeld, Bochum, Bonn, Dortmund, Duisburg have , Düsseldorf, Hamm and Leverkusen did not extend the test option for visiting shops for non-daily needs, which was once introduced. As a rule, the cities referred to the increasing number of new corona infections. Other cities such as Cologne or Hagen had waived the test option from the start.
According to the ministry, even more districts and urban districts could not have extended the offer without being named in the overview.
It is a "snapshot of a very dynamic process" in which not all changes have to be reported to the ministry, it said to explain.
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When the federal emergency brake comes into force, shopping with a daily negative corona test should be made possible in municipalities at least up to a seven-day incidence of 150.
After that, goods may only be picked up.
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