Corona: Countries want to take a uniform approach when it comes to mask requirements

The health ministers of the federal states want to proceed as one when introducing a possible mask requirement indoors and develop appropriate threshold values ​​for this.

Corona: Countries want to take a uniform approach when it comes to mask requirements

The health ministers of the federal states want to proceed as one when introducing a possible mask requirement indoors and develop appropriate threshold values ​​for this. That's what a spokeswoman for Saxony-Anhalt's Health Minister Petra Grimm-Benne (SPD) told the German Press Agency after the heads of department had called.

A working group should now clarify "how one could introduce a mask requirement indoors, for example, which threshold values ​​should apply there". Grimm-Benne is currently chairwoman of the Health Ministers' Conference.

The working group of the highest state health authorities is to discuss the threshold values ​​on November 9th and 10th. For example, the extent to which the hospitalization rate must be taken into account should be discussed, said the spokeswoman. In addition, the health ministers agree that masks should be compulsory in local transport.

Before the switch, among other things, the medical officers had called for the federal states to proceed as uniformly as possible in the corona pandemic. The chairman of the Federal Association of Doctors in the Public Health Service, Johannes Nießen, said on Monday in the ARD “Morgenmagazin”: “It is important to us that a uniform approach is decided, that it becomes as clear as possible when the incidence is 500 or 1000 is that you proceed in the same way both in Hamburg and in Munich."

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