He finds it “deplorable and wrong” that a great many countries are now not making use of the hotspot rule in which he himself would have found it appropriate. “I simply cannot see any legal uncertainty here,” emphasized Lauterbach. An impending overload of the health care system as a prerequisite is justifiable and can be derived with criteria for the clinics. He is firmly convinced that corresponding regulations in Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania would have legal validity.
Only the two countries are initially applying the rule, which allows more requirements with mask requirements and access rules in regional hotspots if the state parliament determines a critical situation for them. Numerous federal states had pointed out that application was not possible due to uncertain legal requirements in federal law.
Lauterbach announced proposals from his ministry and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) again Changes in quarantine and isolation rules to be sent to the countries. The current specifications for the duration of secretions are not really practicable in the current omicron wave with many infections. The point is to solve this pragmatically. The aim is to be able to work with a new regulation in the next week.