The Covid-19-pandemic keeps the world in breath. More than 11 million people have been infected with the novel Coronavirus, 196.104 of them in Germany. The disease Covid-19 has already claimed over half a Million deaths already.
Hygienists Exner against repeal of the mask mandatory in the retail trade
The President of the German society for hospital hygiene, has spoken out against a lifting of the mask mandatory in the retail trade. "Personally, I see this as a difficult an", Martin Exner, said on Sunday the German press Agency. Although Germany is currently in a favourable position, however, it is unclear whether the Situation will remain so. A waiver of the obligation to send the wrong Signal that the Situation is in the handle. "We can’t say so." The mask was an important Element of the prevention strategy. In particular in interior spaces, in which the minimum of 1.5 meters can’t be maintained.
Several States are considering the abolition of the mask obligation in the trade. "If the infection happened remains so low, I see no reason any longer to the mask mandatory in the trade capture”" Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s Minister of Economics Harry Glawe (CDU), said, for example, the "World on Sonntag".
dpa A man with a mask at the train station in Potsdam.
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