Teachers, kindergarten teachers and civil servants will have to be tested for the corona virus in the future.
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The previous option for test refusers in professional groups with a lot of customer contact, alternatively to work with an FFP2 mask, is no longer available. This provides for an amendment to the law that was sent for assessment by the Ministry of Health on Wednesday evening. This also makes it easier to prescribe exit restrictions. The review runs until March 9th .
Anyone who organizes events on a commercial basis and disregards a prohibition in accordance with the Epidemic Act will in future be punished with a fine of up to 30,000 euros or six weeks' imprisonment according to the submission. Participants in prohibited events have to deliver up to 1,450 euros. Organizers who do not obtain a permit or who do not comply with requirements can expect 3,600 euros or four weeks in prison.
The options for intervening at meetings are also newly regulated. If up to now the focus has been on the “confluence of larger crowds”, in future there will be at least four people who are considered to be an event. This applies to both the public and the private sector , with the latter once again making it clear that there are no controls at home.
Exit restrictions are to be made easier. So far, these could only be imposed if the health system threatened to collapse or in “similar emergency situations”. Shorter restrictions such as night curfews should now be possible if contact tracking can no longer be maintained due to the uncontrolled spread of the virus.
