Today in Rhein-Main: The pressure on unvaccinated people is growing

Good evening,

the 3-G rule is now being defined more strictly in Hesse and it is becoming more difficult for people who have not been vaccinated to take part in public life.

Where it was previously sufficient to present a negative rapid antigen test in order to gain entry to events, to visit a restaurant or to have your hair cut, it now has to be a negative PCR test.

Disadvantage: If it is done without a cause, so to speak, and not at the request of a doctor, it is not exactly cheap, it can cost up to 60 euros.

The tightening was announced on Monday by Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) and Minister of Health Kai Klose (The Greens) in Wiesbaden.

Jacqueline Vogt

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

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"The more unvaccinated people we have, the more difficult it is to consistently protect the population on the one hand and to guarantee the freedoms that we all want on the other," said Bouffier. The country could not impose a compulsory vaccination on its own, but "ensure that as few as possible are infected". It was also decided to tighten the test requirement in schools from two to three tests per week. Personnel in clinics and old people's and nursing homes who are not fully vaccinated must be tested daily. In general, the following applies: The PCR test replaces the antigen test, antigen tests are only accepted as negative evidence from children and adolescents and people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons and who can present a medical certificate.The new rules apply from Thursday.

Permanent relief for commuters from and to Wiesbaden: This is promised by the fact that the Hessische Landesbahn has been awarded the contract to operate the RMV line RB21 "Ländchesbahn" for another ten years after the timetable change in December 2022. The trains between Wiesbaden main station and Niedernhausen run every half hour from Monday to Friday and every hour on weekends. The advantage: In Niedernhausen there is a direct connection to and from Frankfurt. RMV managing director Knut Ringat announced on Monday in Wiesbaden that the half-hourly service would be maintained on weekdays, as well as longer trains, two additional journeys and an expansion of night traffic. All of this in a modernized fleet that also enables free WiFi use. Sounds good.

Restaurateurs in lockdown: Some have closed their restaurant, others have kept themselves afloat with out-of-home sales and still others have come up with something completely new. The owner of a pizzeria in Giessen, for example, flash frozen his pizzas and sold them as manufactured frozen food; first to his regular customers, then to regional food retailers. That was a couple of months ago; We report the dimensions of the business on our regional business page.

And in addition, high rents potentially drive the skilled workers out of the cities, as the auditing company PwC found out in a survey +++ the city of Mainz closed the budget with a record surplus, fed from trade tax revenues, of which the vaccine manufacturer BioNTech estimated half a billion +++ the new Millennium Tower in Frankfurt is to be 300 meters high.

Kind regards, stay with us

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Jacqueline Vogt 

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, managing partner of the pharmaceutical manufacturer Pascoe, Giessen (65);

, physicist, Scientific Managing Director of FAIR GmbH and the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research GmbH, Darmstadt (61);

, Managing Director of the Werner Reimers Foundation, Bad Homburg (59);