This provides for a draft resolution for the federal-state talks on Friday. “Only those who have been boosted can get in that way,” said the social democratic politician. “The gastronomy is a problem area,” said Lauterbach to justify. “You often sit there for hours without a mask. And when the people there infect each other, as we see a lot at Omikron, then we need better protection, hence 2G plus, i.e. vaccinated and additionally tested.” Lauterbach did not rule out further contact restrictions for the future.
Hotel and restaurant operators criticized the plans. “Comprehensive 2G-Plus would be a disaster for bars and restaurants,” said the manager of the German Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga) of the “Bild” newspaper (Friday edition). Hosts should not suffer if the government “apparently wants to make the journey for the third vaccination”.
The Bavarian Hotel and Restaurant Association also rejected the idea of introducing 2G plus in the catering industry. “I warn against panic actionism, 2G plus plunges businesses into existential need with no added value for the infection process,” said the President of the Bavarian Hotel and Restaurant Association, Angela Inselkammer, on Thursday evening. “In January, which was already extremely weak in terms of sales, the planned decision would be equivalent to a quasi-lockdown. For many companies, further opening would no longer pay off.”
Lauterbach confirmed that he advocates compulsory vaccination against Corona. In the future there could be virus variants that are not only highly contagious, but also very dangerous. “Then we would get into a very threatening situation,” he said. “The best protection is therefore a very high vaccination rate. And if that cannot be achieved, it has to be compulsory. I believe that compulsory vaccination is the path that is necessary for Germany.”
Source: Nachrichten
