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Since the “certain transitional period” of the protective measures is about to expire, the same rules will apply in Hamburg from April 30 as in the rest of the republic. It will then only be compulsory to wear a mask in local public transport and where vulnerable groups need to be protected in a targeted manner, for example for visitors to clinics, medical practices or residential facilities. Schools will continue to test twice a week until something else is decided.
“But we’re not done yet”
And so it was time for the mayor to say thank you to the authorities, the churches and the “solidarity of the city community” as a whole. The Covid 19 cases in the clinics are currently declining, “but we are not through yet”, even if he hopes that no new situation will arise in the summer. And in autumn? “I’m confident that we won’t have a relapse in October, but you can’t predict that with certainty,” said Tschentscher. The high vaccination rate and the basic immunization of the people of Hamburg are good protection, and anyone who still wants to be vaccinated can do so at any time. Health Senator Melanie Leonhard (SPD) wants to announce how vaccination in Hamburg is to be reorganized this week.
The Hamburg FDP deputy Anne von Treuenfels-Frowein is naturally more critical of the Senate balance sheet than the head of government. “The pandemic does not end with the reversal of the useless red-green wrong decision to declare Hamburg a corona hotspot by the end of April: In view of Mayor Tschentscher’s governess-like politics, which has lasted for more than two years, there is a great need to deal with it,” she said and spoke to herself for a commission of inquiry. The AfD also called for a review.
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