The parliamentarians question Chancellor Merkel in the Bundestag this Wednesday.
Your Corona strategy will certainly be debated.
Health Minister Spahn is confident in advance.
Federal Chancellor
Angela Merkel
* (CDU *) will
answer questions from MPs
on Wednesday from
1 p.m.
From
3:05 p.m.
a current hour on the national strategy for
vaccinations
* in the Corona crisis * is scheduled.
We report in the
live ticker
on the government
survey
with Merkel.
Update from December 16, 12:51 p.m
.: In a few minutes the government
survey
with Chancellor
Angela Merkel (CDU)
in the Bundestag in Berlin.
We will then follow the debate here in the
live ticker
.
Update from December 16, 11:53 a.m
.: Will
vaccination readiness
still be a problem?
The
Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko)
recently referred to a
survey
according to which it has steadily decreased in Germany since spring and is even lower among medical staff than among the rest of the population.
About
53 percent
of Germans want to be
vaccinated
against
Covid-19
, the Barmer health insurance company found in a
survey
at the end of November
.
At the time, 42 percent of parents stated that they also wanted their children to be vaccinated (
RND
reported first).
If you look at an agency photo of today's cabinet meeting with Chancellor
Angela Merkel
(CDU), you can ask yourself whether that will be enough.
Under her arm she carried a list with the
"estimated participation rate" of
various population groups.
All together, the federal government expects a vaccination participation rate of
68 percent
.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) in the cabinet meeting on December 16.
© Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters / Pool / dpa
The surveys are worrisome, among others, the
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach.
"It surprises me that the willingness to vaccinate is not significantly higher among medical staff," said the politician this Monday to the newspapers of the
Funke media group
.
The patient commissioner of the federal government,
Claudia Schmidtke (CDU)
, however, believes that the willingness to vaccinate increases as soon as reliable vaccines are approved.
Federal government agrees on special corona leave for parents
Update December 16, 2020, 11.30 a.m.:
Agreement in Berlin!
Before the questioning of Angela Merkel in the Bundestag, the Federal Cabinet decided at its meeting on Wednesday to implement the special Corona leave for parents announced in the outcome paper of the last Prime Minister's Conference.
According to the cabinet resolution, which is available to the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND / Wednesday), Paragraph 56, Paragraph 1a of the Infection Protection Act is to be supplemented by a half-sentence.
In the future, parents should also be entitled to compensation in the event of a loss of wages due to childcare if the compulsory attendance in schools is suspended.
So far, the claim for compensation only existed in the event of an officially ordered closure of the school.
Angela Merkel asks herself questions about the nationwide corona lockdown
First report:
Berlin - The starting shot has been fired:
retail
and
schools
largely closed,
night curfews
and strict
contact restrictions
.
A test of patience, especially before the holidays, even if most Germans support the
lockdown
in surveys
.
The wait for the
corona vaccine
is added.
And here, at least according to the notoriously irritable Internet forists, the criticism of the federal government is increasing.
On this first lockdown Wednesday, Chancellor
Angela Merkel (CDU) will
answer questions from
parliamentarians for an
hour
.
On Tuesday, the European Medicines Agency (
EMA
) announced that it would
decide
on the approval of a Sars-CoV-2 vaccine (from
Biontech / Pfizer
) for Germany
on
December 21
.
Eight days earlier than originally planned.
"From the summer we can return to normal step by step,"
said Federal Health
Minister Jens Spahn (CDU)
confidently on the day of the Merkel survey on RTL / ntv.
Then there will be enough vaccine for everyone who wants to be vaccinated.
The vaccination is a
"command of reason"
.
Corona in Germany: Question time with Merkel - followed by vaccination strategy debate
According to Spahn,
55 to 65 percent of
the population
would have to get
vaccinated to stop the spread of the virus.
"That is how long we will continue to take care of each other and thus also have to reduce the most intensive and difficult processes," emphasized Spahn.
Hygiene measures are also necessary until then.
“Getting vaccinated is a matter of common sense.
It is sensible for oneself, because it protects & helps to avoid the most severe processes & it is sensible as part of society, because you can also protect others with it. “@Jensspahn with @NikolausBlome at @RTLde.
- BMG (@BMG_Bund) December 15, 2020
From
3:05 p.m.
on Wednesday, a
current hour
in the Bundestag will
deal with the national
vaccination strategy
, which is to be laid down in a regulation.
According
to the
AFP
, these groups
should be vaccinated first
:
The elderly and other risk groups
Doctors and nursing staff
Employees at the police, schools or daycare centers
Advice will also be given from 6:20 pm on the Annual Tax Act 2020. Among other things, it provides for a flat rate for work in the
home office
.
The government survey with Merkel starts at
13:00
.
At this point we will continuously report on the date.
(AFP / dpa / frs)
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