With a view to preparing for a possible mask requirement from autumn, Federal Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann has warned that individual measures should not be laid down prematurely.
“I am in favor of following the law and order.
That provides for an evaluation," said Buschmann to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
The results of the evaluation should "absolutely" be taken into account "before we prematurely commit to individual measures," said the FDP politician.
Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants to be able to react to a possible new corona wave in autumn with a mask requirement indoors.
The Infection Protection Act is currently being worked on again, said the SPD politician on Wednesday evening on the ZDF program “Markus Lanz”.
"It's on September 23rd.
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And then the question will have to be discussed again, for example whether wearing a mask indoors will become mandatory again. ”He thinks it is absolutely necessary to open up this possibility for the autumn.
Currently no mask requirement basis in the law
The recently amended Infection Protection Act is valid until September 23rd.
General mask requirements for events or when shopping, as well as 2G and 3G regulations, have been abolished since the beginning of April.
For the time being, “basic protection” applies – for example with mask requirements in buses, trains, clinics, practices and nursing homes.
Irrespective of state requirements, however, there are also further protection rules with mask requirements in many places, for example in cultural institutions.
The corona incidence and the number of hospital admissions are currently falling.
However, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) continues to assess the risk to the population as high.
Currently reported numbers hardly relevant
This Friday, the RKI reported only 1852 new infections within 24 hours.
That is 47,058 fewer cases than on Friday a week ago.
However, this number is very limited in its informative value, because many federal states do not report at all or not completely after public holidays.
The nationwide seven-day incidence drops to 211.2 after 262.6 the previous day.
Two other people died in connection with the virus.
This increases the number of reported deaths to 138,781.