The main problem in the healthcare system at the moment is not Corona, but the lack of certain medicines, as Prime Minister Haseloff says. Anyone who falls ill with Corona should continue to go into quarantine in Saxony-Anhalt.
Magdeburg (dpa/sa) - Saxony-Anhalt's Prime Minister Reiner Haseloff (CDU) has spoken out in favor of pharmaceuticals being increasingly produced in Europe again. "Our problem in the healthcare system is currently not Corona, but the lack of workers and medicines," said the CDU politician to the German Press Agency in Magdeburg. "We currently have bottlenecks in certain medicines such as fever syrups and suppositories for children or blood pressure and cholesterol-lowering drugs - this deficit development must be reversed. The production of certain substances must be relocated to Europe."
Haseloff defended the health policy course of several countries in which the corona rules have already expired or will soon expire. "We will see how the corona virus develops. If the situation changes and new mutations occur, you can react at short notice. But in principle it is right that the regulations in the countries are expiring," he said.
In Saxony-Anhalt, the mask requirement on local buses and trains was dropped at the beginning of December. It was the first federal state to waive this rule. Since then, people have had to decide for themselves whether to wear mouth and nose protection. Mouth and nose protection must continue to be worn in long-distance public transport, which is regulated by the Federal Infection Protection Act. It also mandates FFP2 masks in clinics, nursing homes, doctor's offices and other healthcare facilities.
Anyone who falls ill with the corona virus should initially continue to go into quarantine. That's what the President of the Saxony-Anhalt District Council, Götz Ulrich (CDU), told the German Press Agency after talks with the Ministry of Health. "We have reached an agreement as counties that we will allow the quarantine obligation to continue until the end of January. In January we will then look again at whether this is still necessary," said Ulrich, who is the district administrator in the Burgenland district.
