Future Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz is in favor of introducing mandatory vaccination against coronavirus

The candidate for the Chancellery of Germany, the social democrat Olaf Scholz, has spoken in favor of mandatory vaccination against the coronavirus in the crisis meeting held with the outgoing Chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the regional powers.

Scholz, who is expected to be sworn in as chancellor next week, intends to implement this measure before the end of February, according to coincident information from the weekly “Der Spiegel” and the daily “Bild”.

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The leaders of the regional powers already asked in their last meeting with Merkel, held a fortnight ago, mandatory vaccination at least in the most sensitive professional sectors and in contact with vulnerable people.

Scholz He promised to prepare the corresponding bill to enter the parliamentary process before the end of this year, as confirmed last week when presenting the coalition pact between Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals.

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The emergency meeting on Tuesday with the outgoing foreign minister and regional leaders was convened in the face of successive alerts from experts and also from the most affected “Länder” warning that immediate measures should be taken without waiting for the change in power.

Scholz also announced when presenting his coalition pact the creation of a crisis team against COVID, with representatives of the federal government, regional and municipal powers, as well as reference experts.

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At the head of this team will be Major General Carsten Breuer, who, in the absence of the replacement in power being consumed, already has an office in the Chancellery, according to the weekly “Der Spiegel”.

This general has already coordinated army operations related to the outgoing government’s vaccination campaign and logistical support.

His priority has been to speed up vaccination, in a country where the population rate with the complete schedule – 68.5% – remains below that of other European partners, despite repeated calls from the political arena and experts to be immunized. .

The Constitutional Court of Germany, for its part, paved the way for new restrictions, by endorsing in a sentence released today the measures implemented at the time to combat the third wave of the pandemic by virtue of the so-called “emergency brake” of national scope.

The accumulated weekly incidence reflected this Tuesday, for the first time in weeks, a slight decrease and stood at 452.2 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, compared to 452.4 yesterday, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) of virology.

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