Germany orders mandatory vaccination for “sensitive” personnel and restrictions on those not vaccinated against COVID-19

Germany will impose the mandatory vaccine against coronavirus professionals from “sensitive” sectors, such as medical personnel or in contact with vulnerable people, and will restrict access to public life to the unvaccinated when certain levels of incidence and hospitalizations are exceeded.

The outgoing Chancellor, Angela Merkel, announced a comprehensive package of measures together with his probable successor, the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, after meeting with regional leaders and before the alarm by the successive records of incidence, which today rose to 336.9 infections in seven days per 100,000 inhabitants.

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“We are in a very serious situation,” said Merkel, after admitting that “It is absolutely necessary to act” to stop the exponential increase in infections and warn that all this would not be necessary “if the vaccination gap were not so great”, Alluding to the low rate of immunized citizens.

The seven-day hospitalization rate is 5.15 per 100,000 inhabitants and that of citizens with the complete vaccination schedule is 67.7%, one of the lowest levels in Western Europe.

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The implementation of these measures will correspond to the regional powers, among which, said the prime minister of the populous “Land” of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hendrik Wüst, there is consensus on the need to adopt “more drastic measures”.

All the federated states have asked the central government the implantation of the mandatory vaccine for professionals who work and are in contact with vulnerable people -be they sick or elderly-.

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Until now, the outgoing Executive of Merkel had maintained that the vaccine would be voluntary. It must now prepare the corresponding bill so that this measure can be implemented, something that could happen by December.

The plan agreed between the federal, outgoing and future governments, and the regional powers also contemplates a series of gradual restrictions, on a territorial scale but with common parameters, for those who are not vaccinated.

The first level, When the hospitalization rate exceeds level 3, as is already the case in part of the country, it will mean that only vaccinated or healed people will be able to access bars, restaurants and other closed public spaces. Starting from level 6, they will be required to also present a negative test and, if the threshold of level 9 is crossed, more drastic measures will be taken, including partial closure of public life.

Merkel admitted that “she would have liked a broader catalog”, alluding to the bill approved today by the Bundestag (Federal Parliament), drafted by the future government of Scholz with greens and liberals and which includes measures such as the obligation to present the covid certificate or a test of the day in the workplace, as well as a recommendation for telecommuting.

“We are in a somewhat unusual situation. But it does not matter whether it is the government in office or the one that is being formed. We have to act quickly in the face of a dramatic evolution ”, the chancellor settled in the first meeting with the “Länder” with the assistance of Scholz, who is expected to undergo his investiture session as chancellor around December 6.

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