Corona cabinet meets: Significantly fewer rights for unvaccinated people

The rights of unvaccinated people are also restricted in Hesse.

In any case, this was the tenor of the information that was available in Wiesbaden's government district before Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) and Minister of Social Affairs Kai Klose (The Greens) announced the current resolutions of the Corona cabinet on Tuesday.

Ewald Hetrodt

Correspondent for the Rhein-Main-Zeitung in Wiesbaden.

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Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung, responsible for the Rhein-Main section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.

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In an interview with the FAZ, the head of government had already announced that restaurateurs, hairdressers and other companies could use the 2-G rule in the future.

The revised provisions are intended to give private providers the option of only allowing people who have been vaccinated and recovered (this is what 2-G stands for) access to their rooms.

Anyone who has only been tested is then excluded with a negative result.

The lawyer Bouffier expressed the assessment that such a regulation was also legally required.

Nobody can tell a private entrepreneur to whom he has to make his offers accessible.

3G continues in local transport

In the case of public services, however, it remains at 3G. For example, authorities or local public transport should also be open to people who have not recovered or are fully vaccinated but tested negative. However, in Bouffier's opinion, a rapid test should no longer be sufficient there. He assumes that a PCR test will be necessary in the future, he told the Handelsblatt. “If you don't vaccinate, you have to accept that. The only question left is: How is that going to be designed? We'll discuss that. ”This is not about stigmatization, said Bouffier. "But one's own freedom ends where the freedom of others is restricted."

Hamburg was the first of the federal states to decide 2G, several others are discussing it, including Berlin, Bavaria and Brandenburg.

It was decided to introduce 2G plus for Rhineland-Palatinate.

In this model, where public life is at stake, access is free for those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered.

In addition, a limited number of people will be allowed access with evidence of a negative test.

This should take into account the fact that there are also people who could not be vaccinated, it said from the State Chancellery in Mainz

Restaurateurs complain about the duty of inspection

In Hesse, critical voices, especially from the catering and club scene, had reported about the introduction of 2G.

The German Hotel and Restaurant Association published the results of a survey of 600 businesses on the subject.

Of them, 40 percent were positive, 38 were negative and 21 were undecided, it said.

Above all, there was complaint about the duty of inspection, which is all the more difficult to comply with the less channeling of visitor flows required by the gastronomic concepts.

"In clubs and discos, where there are bouncers and where entry has to be paid, the control is easier than in a day bar in the city center," said a Frankfurt restaurateur on Friday.

Bouffier also spoke out in favor of reducing wages for unvaccinated workers in quarantine.

“One thing is clear: there is only compensation if it was unavoidable for the person concerned.

So it is already in the law.

I don't want to rush this, but I agree with the basic idea. "

So far, the state has also replaced unvaccinated loss of earnings from preventive quarantine.

But the country no longer wants that in the future if those affected could already have been vaccinated.

Health Minister Klose confirmed plans of the state government to the Hessischer Rundfunk on Tuesday.

Corona regulation expires

Meanwhile, 420 new corona infections were registered in Hesse within 24 hours on Tuesday. According to the data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Berlin, the incidence has decreased. Within seven days, 100.6 reported infections were last counted per 100,000 inhabitants, after 103.9 previously. With six new deaths, the number of people who have died with or from the virus has increased to 7,668 since the beginning of the pandemic. According to data from the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine, 144 people were in the intensive care units of the Hessian hospitals as of Tuesday a Covid 19 disease. 70 had to be ventilated.

The current Hessian Corona Ordinance, which the so-called Corona Cabinet decided to modify, is limited to Thursday and will then be replaced by the new version.