Remaining measures lifted

CORONAVIRUS measures were finally lifted on Saturday, April 8, in Germany’s last feder‐al 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 adminis‐tration of health facilities if they deem them necessary.

The news was welcomed by Marco Buschmann, the 45‐year‐old German Justice Minis‐ ter. “The Corona measures massively interfered with ev‐eryday life and people’s basic rights,” he told the news outlet. “After the long period of re‐strictions 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 re‐strictions on rights and free‐doms in connection with the epidemiological situation. However, the 60‐year‐old constitutional expert Volker Boehme‐Neßler disagreed: “We need exactly the freedom we had before Corona. The lockdown paragraph was writ‐ten into law for the corona pandemic, so now it must be deleted again.”