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Berlin (dpa) - Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble has criticized the advance of individual federal states with easing for vaccinated people even before a nationwide regulation.
"Now we have the condition again that a number of countries are not adhering to the agreements," complained the CDU politician in the "Augsburger Allgemeine". Inconsistent solutions shortly after the decision for a nationwide Corona emergency brake were irritating for people, "too great a degree of difference can destroy trust," warned Schäuble. "How should the citizens, who are gradually getting tired due to Corona and flooded with new information, still understand that?"
The Federal Ministry of Justice sent a draft ordinance to the other departments on Thursday, according to which those who have been completely vaccinated and recovered in the corona crisis should be given more freedom.
In particular, these groups should be exempted from requirements for private meetings and from night exit restrictions.
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) had declared that the government wanted to involve the Bundestag and Bundesrat in votes on the ordinance at an early stage in order to proceed quickly.
"If we agree, it'll be quick."
The "latest" date for a final decision by the Federal Council is May 28.
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Schäuble said he would like it if the regulation wasn't passed until the end of May.
"People are otherwise unsettled, although they also see that the vaccination is progressing much faster than expected a few weeks ago," emphasized the CDU politician.
The Federal Government's Tourism Commissioner, Thomas Bareiß (CDU), is also pushing the pace.
“The pressure on restaurants and hotels to reopen is increasing every day.
We therefore have the moral and also legal duty to gradually withdraw the restriction of the rights of freedom for those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered.
It would be good if that happened well before the end of May, ”said Bareiß of“ Bild ”.
The security concepts of the hotel and catering industry are extensive and good, he emphasized.
SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich made it clear in the "Bild" that the SPD would not fail next week to pass an ordinance through which vaccinated and convalescent people quickly regain their freedom rights.
"Finally good numbers for vaccinations - now we mustn't hesitate, we have to quickly pave the way to normal life," warned Mützenich.
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Green leader Annalena Baerbock emphasized that the drastic restriction of freedoms had to be critically reviewed again and again.
It is therefore correct, "that vaccinated people are put on an equal footing with those who have a negative test result," said the designated candidate for chancellor of the editorial network in Germany.
The head of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), Marcel Fratzscher, demanded in the "Augsburger Allgemeine" the government an opening schedule to enable the economy to restart quickly. This also included specific help, "which in many cases will have to be granted long after it has been fully opened," said Fratzscher. Many companies are heavily in debt and have to prepare adequately for the restart. This applies above all to companies in the stationary retail, gastronomy, travel and event industries.
In the meantime, vaccination against the corona virus is progressing more and more in Germany.
On Wednesday there were more than a million vaccinations a day for the first time.
25.9 percent of the people in the country have received at least one vaccination, 7.5 percent already the second injection.
The third corona wave has also slowed down, but the government and experts did not want to speak of a trend reversal yet.
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Intensive care physicians called on federal states and municipalities to increasingly vaccinate in socially disadvantaged areas in order to relieve the hospitals. "There are an above-average number of people from poorer sections of the population, people with a migration background and socially disadvantaged people in the intensive care units," said the scientific director of the intensive care bed register of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi), Christian Karagiannidis, of the "Rheinische Post". Mayors and health authorities should therefore send mobile vaccination teams to the socially disadvantaged areas of their cities. "That would bring a lot, because the vaccination rate is currently promising," said Karagiannidis.
The general manager of the German Association of Cities, Helmut Dedy, advocated using more mobile vaccination teams.
"Social differences must not lead to some of the people being left behind because access to vaccinations is too difficult for them," he told the newspapers of the Funke media group.
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