BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – Deputy FDP chairman Johannes Vogel has rejected warnings from North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU) that corona protection measures will soon be over. “Hendrik Wüst, as MPK chairman, should not focus on the continuation of restrictions on freedom, but rather work on a plan for the withdrawal of restrictions on freedom,” said Vogel, who is also the first parliamentary director of the FDP parliamentary group, on Wednesday of the Germans press agency.
Based on the opinion of the Expert Council, the Prime Ministers’ Conference had firmly agreed on the development of opening perspectives in due course. “If the trend that the current wave of infections does not lead to an overload of the health system is confirmed by the next meeting of the country heads, then it must not stop at an announcement. Because people are right to ask for a perspective,” said Vogel. It can be learned from neighboring countries. The next prime ministers’ conference should discuss an opening timetable. A proposal must now be prepared.
Wüst had warned that if the Bundestag did not act, all measures to protect against the virus would expire at the end of March 19 – after a single extension at the latest. He told the editorial network Germany (RND/Wednesday): “Then the federal states and municipalities would actually have no protection options.”/cn/DP/eas