So if you want to shop on Monday, you no longer need to present a negative corona rapid test in North Rhine-Westphalia, provided you are fully vaccinated or have recovered from a Covid 19 disease. The obligation to test in schools and quarantine upon entry will then no longer apply to those who have been vaccinated or who have already been infected, as the state government announced in Düsseldorf.
“The restrictions were and still apply to avert danger,” declared Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) to justify the situation. Vaccinated and recovered people pose no greater risk than those who tested negative. “That is why we are taking back encroachments on fundamental rights for this group of people.”
In the future, vaccinated people will have an easier time dealing with corona measures
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Vaccinated and convalescents have advantages not only in retail, but also when visiting zoos and botanical gardens or at the hairdresser’s. At the moment, customers only get access there if they show a negative corona test that is no longer than 24 hours old. This compulsory test is no longer required for those who have had complete vaccination protection for 14 days or who can prove by means of a positive PCR test that is at least 28 days old that they have already survived a corona infection.
Other countries with similar regulations
In front of North Rhine-Westphalia, other federal states had already pushed forward in the past few days and had eased the applicable corona restrictions for vaccinated people. In Bavaria, vaccinated people have been treated as negative since Wednesday. Similar measures are already in place in Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, Brandenburg, Berlin, Baden-Württemberg and Lower Saxony. The state government in Saarland also decided that completely
People who have been vaccinated and who have recovered from a corona infection are to be treated on an equal footing with people who have been tested.
A nationwide regulation for the rights of vaccinated persons has not yet been decided. Federal Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht presented the draft for a nationwide ordinance on Thursday, but it is still unclear when this will come. According to government spokesman Steffen Seibert, the federal government is trying to ensure a speedy procedure.
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania wants to relax the entry ban
Meanwhile, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania announced that it wanted to relax the current entry ban. “The state government will implement the advice from the Higher Administrative Court to make relief for fully vaccinated people,” said Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD). The Ministry of Health will prepare a proposal for entry in particular to find second homes.
According to the state corona ordinance, entry into the state is only permitted in exceptional cases. The Higher Administrative Court recently declared the regulation unlawful and called it arbitrary because it treated fully vaccinated and non-vaccinated people equally. However, the court did not overturn the regulation with reference to the far-reaching consequences that such a step would have for fighting the pandemic.
uh / ml (dpa, afp, epd)
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