corona pandemic
Mask and isolation requirements are falling in many places
In Bavaria, it is no longer necessary to wear a mask in medical practices and outpatient facilities. photo
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The nationwide corona rules officially apply for a little over two months. However, individual regulations and protective measures are gradually being dropped in the federal states.
After the end of the mask requirement in Baden-Württemberg on Tuesday, central corona protective measures were taken in other federal states this Wednesday. Anyone who becomes infected with the corona virus no longer has to isolate themselves at home in Hamburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony, Bremen and Saxony-Anhalt. Thuringia and Saxony will follow suit in the coming days. Several federal states had already ended the isolation requirement. In Berlin, Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, on the other hand, those infected with corona must continue to isolate themselves for several days.
Users of local public transport in North Rhine-Westphalia and Hamburg can now travel without a mask. In all other federal states in which the obligation to wear mouth and nose protection still applies, this will be the case from Thursday. On that day, the nationwide mask requirement in long-distance trains and buses expires after almost three years. In airplanes it has been passé since autumn.
The federal corona rules are still valid until April 7th, then, according to the current status, the mask requirement for patients and visitors in practices will no longer apply. In Bavaria, at least employees in medical practices and other outpatient medical facilities have been able to take off their masks since Wednesday. The fact that there are now earlier easing across Germany is due to the more relaxed situation. There was no threatening winter wave, and experts don’t see any on the horizon for the time being.