Munich (dpa / lby) – Bavaria’s Health Minister Klaus Holetschek is calling for further adjustments before the Federal Cabinet deliberations on the draft for the new Infection Protection Act. The CSU politician centrally criticized an exemption from the obligation to wear masks indoors contained in the draft law. Accordingly, newly vaccinated, recovered and newly tested people do not have to wear a mask. Holetschek announced on Sunday that this had to be avoided. “Such a regulation would simply not be enforceable.”
The federal cabinet could give the green light on Wednesday for a draft of corona measures for autumn and winter. The proposal by Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) and Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) provides, among other things, that the federal states can reintroduce a mask requirement indoors from October 1st – regardless of the incidence. But Lauterbach also said: If the federal states introduce the obligation to wear a mask, “they must make an exception for indoor areas, where wearing a mask can be replaced by either a vaccination card, a convalescent card or fresh testing”. The mask should not be mandatory if you have been vaccinated in the three months before.
Holetschek has repeatedly criticized this “three-month interval”. It cannot be communicated to people and does not correspond to the recommendation of the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko), he argues. The minister also accused Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) of not including the federal states in the planning for the Corona autumn as announced.
