Starting Monday in NRW Bonn city administration requires face masks for citizens’ services
Bonn · Beginning on Monday, face masks are compulsory in NRW when shopping and on buses, trams and trains. On Thursday evening, the Bonn city director announced that masks will also be compulsory in all municipal service buildings - such as the Stadthaus. The number of corona cases has risen to 598.
Bonn's city director, Wolfgang Fuchs, said at a meeting of the Central Committee on Thursday evening that as of next week, masks will also be mandatory in municipal service buildings, for example the “Stadthaus” in Bonn. It applies to both visitors and employees. The staff will be given face masks to wear on the job.
As reported, the NRW state government has decided that, starting on Monday, citizens will have to wear mouth and nose protection in buses, on trams and trains and when shopping. A simple scarf, which can be pulled over the mouth and nose, is sufficient.
Also beginning on Monday, the Bonn city administration will extend its services to the public again and offer more appointments. Each request for an appointment will first be checked to see if it has to be handled in person. The city administration is also checking into whether it will generally be able to provide certain services in the future. All municipal service buildings are still only accessible by appointment, and there are still controls set up for entering the buildings.
172 people infected with coronavirus
According to the City of Bonn, business owners are for the most part complying with the new regulations. Only one nail salon and one store which was too large had to be closed down. From Monday, April 20, to Friday noon on April 24, the Ordnungsamt (Public Order Office) had to deal with 174 incidences linked to the corona regulations. Of these, 65 official complaints were filed for violation of the ban on contact. Since the beginning of the corona regulations, the Public Order Office has reported being called out to 1,869 related incidences.
According to the Bonn Health Department, 172 people are currently suffering from Sars-Cov-2. Since February 29, 598 people have tested positive for Covid-29, and 420 have since recovered. So far six people have died. Currently 1,062 people are in quarantine.
(Orig. text: Nathalie Dreschke, Lisa Inhoffen)
