From October there could again be a mask requirement in long-distance and local transport in the federal states. A clear majority would like that. Such a rule is rejected by well-known quarters.
A mask requirement in long-distance, air and local public transport is still met with great approval from the population. In a survey by the YouGov institute on behalf of the German Press Agency, 63 percent of those questioned said they supported such a duty in local public transport. For long-distance rail travel and air travel, it was 58 percent. Only 24 percent said they were fundamentally against a mask requirement.
For other publicly accessible spaces such as shops, 46 percent of those surveyed supported a mask requirement, for schools only 29 percent. The approval was above average among supporters of the Greens, significantly lower among those of the FDP, and lowest among people who voted AfD in the last federal election. A narrow majority of 51 percent of them declared that they were generally against a mask requirement.
For the survey, YouGov interviewed 2039 people between August 5th and 10th. The question was: “The federal government has presented a corona protection concept for autumn. According to this, the FFP2 mask requirement in long-distance trains and airplanes should be retained, for local transport and other publicly accessible interiors the decision should be left to the federal states. In which areas, if anything, do you support a mask requirement?”
The amendment to the Infection Protection Act developed by Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) and Minister of Justice Marco Buschmann (FDP) provides that the federal states can decide for themselves from October whether they want to reintroduce a mask requirement indoors if the number of infections increases. The law still has to be approved by the cabinet and then passed by the Bundestag and Bundesrat.
Source: Stern
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