The higher administrative court in Greifswald overturned the corona hotspot regulation for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on Friday.

The court granted an application for temporary legal protection on important points.

A court spokeswoman said that the protective measures that had been suspended affected in particular the distance requirement and the obligation to wear a medical mask or respiratory mask.

The state government had already largely lifted the 3G rule (vaccinated, recovered, tested) on Maundy Thursday.

On March 24, the state parliament in Schwerin declared the entire federal state a corona hotspot in order to be able to continue the protective measures in force across the board.

According to the court, the particularly high number of new corona infections and an impending overload of hospital capacities should have been determined individually for each district and city in order to declare them a hotspot.

The judges complained that this did not happen.

Corresponds to Union requirements

Meanwhile, the Hamburg health authorities will only report weekly on the course of the corona pandemic.

With the end of the pandemic situation determined by the citizenship, the daily publication of the figures will also be discontinued, said authority spokesman Martin Helfrich on Friday.

From May, the seven-day incidence, i.e. the number of infections detected per 100,000 inhabitants within one week, the number of infected people in Hamburg hospitals and the number of corona intensive care patients will be published on Tuesdays.

The hotspot rule used by the citizenship to extend the corona measures in Hamburg expires on April 30th.

The Senate will discuss how to proceed next Tuesday.

However, it is not expected that there will be a further extension.

This would mean that almost all corona measures would no longer apply in Hamburg from May 1st.

On the one hand, Helfrich gave the reason for the change in the reports on the corona numbers as the number of corona tests, which will continue to fall foreseeably with the abolition of the measures.

In addition, the incidence of infection is likely to ease further towards the summer due to seasonal effects.

The Hanseatic city is thus implementing what the deputy chairman of the Union faction in the Bundestag, Sepp Müller (CDU), brought up for discussion on Thursday.

"In my opinion, one status quo message per week during the summer would be sufficient," Müller told the editorial network Germany.