The Green health politician Janosch Dahmen spoke out in favor of a mask requirement as an option in the debate on corona protection requirements for the fall. “The effectiveness of medical masks in protecting against infection has already been sufficiently scientifically proven. We should not give up this instrument for the current and future pandemics and should therefore continue to allow a mask requirement in the Infection Protection Act if necessary,” said Dahmen of the “Rheinische Post” (Saturday).
The Green health politician Janosch Dahmen spoke out in favor of a mask requirement as an option in the debate on corona protection requirements for the fall. “The effectiveness of medical masks in protecting against infection has already been sufficiently scientifically proven. We should not give up this instrument for the current and future pandemics and should therefore continue to allow a mask requirement in the Infection Protection Act if necessary,” said Dahmen of the “Rheinische Post” (Saturday).
You don’t have to be a prophet to believe that further waves of severe respiratory diseases are possible in the coming autumn or winter, said Dahmen. “I am confident that the Committee of Experts in its evaluation report on the Infection Protection Act and the Federal Government’s Pandemic Expert Council will come to a similar conclusion in this regard and, if necessary, with regard to further measures.”
Traffic light is struggling for renewed state corona protection requirements
Dahmen told the “Welt” that he assumed that the reports “will be available in the course of June, then we will discuss as a coalition and decide what to do”. The aim is to make a decision immediately after the summer break in order to be better prepared for the coming autumn and winter.
The traffic light coalition is struggling for renewed state corona protection requirements such as mask requirements for the fall. Leading FDP politicians insist on waiting for a planned scientific evaluation of previous restrictions. Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) had made it clear that more protection requirements would be needed again in autumn.
The chairman of the World Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung” (Saturday) that the Infection Protection Act had to be amended “so that containment measures could be introduced when the situation became serious, and uniformly across the country”.
As a last resort, “the possibility of a lockdown must also be anchored”. “It would be negligent not to put this tool in the toolbox, even if we have to do everything we can to never have to take it out again.” He warned the FDP against blocking new measures.
