Anyone know why this is being passed now?

In my country (Germany), it feels like the terrorism-terror from news outlets is still mostly displaced by the COVID-19 coverage. Or at least the victim numbers in any act of terrorism so far, are absolutely laughable compared to the number of COVID-19 victims.

Germany did pass a similar law around a week ago, but that is generally attributed to us having elections in autumn, and the ruling parties (which pushed this law) likely losing a lot of their power.