Corona measures out of execution
Court overturns hotspot regulation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
4/22/2022, 8:07 p.m
On March 24th, the state parliament in Schwerin declared the whole of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a corona hotspot. The AfD parliamentary group, on the other hand, is going to court and is now right on many points. The court overrides safeguards. The actions of the state parliament were not differentiated enough for him.
The Higher Administrative Court of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has overturned the corona hotspot regulation for the federal state. An application for temporary legal protection was granted on important points. A court spokeswoman in Greifswald announced that the protective measures that had been suspended affected in particular the distance requirement and the obligation to wear a medical mask or respiratory mask. The state government had already largely lifted the 3G rule (vaccinated, recovered, tested) on Maundy Thursday.
On March 24, the state parliament in Schwerin declared the entire federal state a corona hotspot in order to be able to continue the protective measures in force across the board. According to the court, the particularly high number of new corona infections and an impending overload of hospital capacities should have been determined individually for each district and city in order to declare them a hotspot. The judges complained that this did not happen.
The scheme is about to expire anyway
Without the decision of the state parliament, most protective measures under the Federal Infection Protection Act would have ended at the beginning of April – that’s how it happened in most federal states. Only Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Hamburg declared themselves completely corona hotspots. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, on the other hand, the AfD parliamentary group went to court. The hotspot regulation had been decided in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to last until April 27th.
In Hamburg, the AfD recently failed with its urgent application against the local corona hotspot regulation with extended mask requirements and access restrictions to clubs and discos. The administrative court justified its decision by allowing the Hanseatic city to take extended protective measures on the basis of the Infection Protection Act – after a corresponding determination by the citizenry.