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The first state to abolish mask obligation in shops
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern want to in light of the low Corona-infection figures, the mask duty in the trade to get rid of. "If the infection happened remains so low, I see no reason any longer to the mask duty in the trade festzuhalten", Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s Minister of Economics Harry Glawe (CDU), said the "World on Sonntag". He assumes that the Cabinet of Ministers in Schwerin, in its meeting on December 4. August will decide the end of the mask mandatory in the retail trade.
"I can understand the impatience of the trading very well, the mask duty abzuschaffen", the economy Minister said. The distance rule is to protect against the novel Coronavirus but there are, in principle, to continue.
Glawe also announced talks with his counterparts in Bremen, Hamburg, lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. "We try, for all of the Northern German States in a uniform scheme hinzubekommen", the CDU-politician said. "Still prefer a Federal would be my wide end of the mask obligation in the trade."
Other countries are considering the abolition of the mask duty
Other States check according to the report, the abolition of the mask mandatory in shops. "We’re currently looking at, whether we are shopping on the mask duty to refrain können", said Saxony’s social Affairs Minister Petra Köpping (SPD) of the "WamS".
Lower Saxony’s Economics Minister Bernd Althusmann (CDU), spoke out in favor of a duty in a recommendation to convert. "The mask duty indicates a hazard which, in view of the regular spacing in large Parts of the retail industry is not gibt", he said.
Saxony-Anhalt’s Minister of health, Petra Grimm-Benne (SPD) considers a Change in the medium term, is conceivable. "We need to discuss whether the mask duty in the trade can be taken back, where it is possible to halten" distance;, she said the "WamS".
In Schleswig-Holstein, wants the state government "the current situation at the beginning of August rate and at the infection happened-adjusted measures umsetzen", informed the Ministry of health. Bremen’s economy, Senator Kristina Vogt (Left) wants to discuss the issue according to information in the Senate.
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