Remaining measures lifted

CORONAVIRUS measures were finally lifted on Saturday, April 8, in Germany’s last federal state. As of April 8, there was no longer a requirement to wear masks nationwide, but, restrictions such as masks can still be imposed by the administration of health facilities if they deem them necessary, as reported by a news source.

The news was welcomed by Marco Buschmann, the 45­year­old German Justice Minister. “The Corona measures massively interfered with everyday life and peo­ ple’s basic rights,” he told the news outlet. “After the long period of restrictions in everyday life for people in Germany, freedom is now the rule again.”

Now that the country has managed to successfully cope with the epidemic, the minister advocated the annulment of amendments to the Infection Protection Act that allowed restrictions on rights and freedoms in connection with the epidemiological situation.

However, the 60­year­old constitutional expert Volker Boehme­Neßler disagreed: “As long as Paragraph 28a is still in the law, it lurks menacingly in the background.” The regulation is the basis for all restrictions he pointed out: “including the tough lockdown measures.”

“We need exactly the freedom we had before Corona.

The lockdown paragraph was written into law for the corona pandemic ­ the pandemic is now over, so the paragraph must also be deleted again,” demanded Boehme­Neßler.