The traffic light parties' bill to combat the corona pandemic has met with a lot of criticism. The CSU regional group rejects the plans, and the German Association of Cities and the social associations point to failures. In view of the high number of infections, general practitioners warned against scare tactics and uncertainty. According to a draft law by the SPD, FDP and the Greens, which will be submitted to the Bundestag for a vote on Thursday, the drastic rise in corona numbers should be due, among other things, to the return to free corona rapid tests, the 3-G rule at work and financial aid for clinics to be contained.
The CSU regional group chairman Alexander Dobrindt rejected the plans in the Augsburger Allgemeine as too risky.
"The first traffic light decision already risks corona chaos in Germany," he told the newspaper.
"To end the epidemic situation politically without naming real adequate alternatives, while hospitalization is actually increasing, is a signal of lack of plan."
At the end of October, the SPD, Greens and FDP announced that they wanted to let the epidemic situation of national scope, the nationwide state of emergency corona, expire on November 25th.
Since then, the corona numbers have continued to rise.
On Tuesday, the Robert Koch Institute announced the highest value for the seven-day incidence since the pandemic began.
The German Association of Cities criticized that with the submitted draft the chance to introduce the 2-G rule in the leisure sector nationwide had been wasted. “A visit to the fitness center, club or cinema should be taboo without spades,” demanded General Manager Helmut Dedy in the newspapers of the Funke media group. He also insisted on another prime ministerial conference. "Instead of talking for days about the option of a federal-state round, maybe you should do one and agree on a strategy for the near future together," he said.
Berlin's outgoing Governing Mayor Michael Müller (SPD) expects that the Prime Ministers will soon vote again on Corona measures. "It is necessary, and I also assume that we will get together again in the course of the next week," said Müller on Tuesday in the ARD morning magazine. However, there will continue to be regional adjustments in the individual countries, "because even with the increasing numbers we can see that some federal states are even better off than others," emphasized Müller.
The social associations also expressed criticism of the draft law.
"Only the daily compulsory test for everyone in the care can break the swelling wave of corona infections in homes," said the president of the VdK social association, Verena Bentele, the newspapers of the Funke media group (Tuesday).
"It is negligent that the traffic light coalition parties apparently want to dispense with a uniform regulation, just like before the federal and state governments." The German Foundation for Patient Protection also called for daily testing for nursing staff.
The vaccination status should not play a role at all, said the board, Eugen Brysch, the editorial network Germany (Tuesday).