Debate on the mask of duty: mouth-nose protection is a reasonable imposition

The SPD party Chairman Norbert Walter-Borjans, opposes a repeal of the mask mandatory in the retail trade, and is thus, by his own admission, in line with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU). "I have today spoken with the Chancellor about it, and we agree, that the Mask can be used in shops a choice, but a reasonable imposition," said Walter-Borjans, on Sunday evening on "live". The SPD chief, and the in the Corona-pandemic more caution. "In business, I'm going to put on a mask. And if the all do, we have curbed a large part of the infection possibilities,“ said Walter-Borjans. He will say to other Democrats, the more relaxed prone.

The debate over an early end to the corona-related mask obligation in the trade was advised on the weekend after, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Minister of Economics Harry Glawe (CDU), to the "world on Sunday" had for such a step in his country are pronounced. Also lower Saxony's Economics Minister Bernd Althusmann (CDU) had favored a loosening. Against a timely end to the obligation for the mouth-nose cover or in the shops of Bavaria, Schleswig-Holstein, Brandenburg and Hamburg were on Sunday, however.

"The Bavarian state government does not see the slightest occasion, the mask duty repeal," said state office chief Florian Herrmann (CSU), the "süddeutsche Zeitung". "On the contrary: The world's rising infection numbers, and the Hotspots show us that we need to leave at the Corona continues to be the utmost caution," emphasized Herrmann.

change in recommendation

the Rhineland-Palatinate state government will initially retain the mask obligation in the trade. "The Coronavirus is still there and still dangerous, the show local outbreaks", - said the press Secretary of the country's Ministry of health, the "Rheinische Post" (Monday). The holiday season is now crucial for an assessment of further infection events. Therefore, the lifting of the mask on the duty currently the wrong Signal. Other States check according to the "doublet" the abolition of the mask mandatory in shops.