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Corona vaccination in a mosque in Cologne-Ehrenfeld (archive image)
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In France and Greece, employees in the health and geriatric care sector will no longer have a choice: They have to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
The countries announced this on Monday.
If the employees do not allow themselves to be vaccinated, they are no longer allowed to work - in the case of France - and are no longer paid.
A possible vaccination requirement is now being discussed again in Germany.
The idea of forcing certain professional groups to vaccinate, however, met with great resistance from the governing parties.
For example, the
human geneticist Wolfram Henn
from the German Ethics Council demanded
that the staff in daycare centers and schools be vaccinated
.
The
Chair of the Ethics Council, Alena Buyx
, thinks this is unnecessary.
"We have much better vaccination rates than in France with the health workers," said Buyx on ZDF.
"I think you don't have to think about it." A general compulsory vaccination is also unnecessary and, in her opinion, will not come.
The
SPD health politician
Karl Lauterbach also
rejects mandatory vaccination.
»A vaccination against Covid-19 must be the voluntary decision of every individual.
Politicians must and will keep their word here.
That also applies to teachers and educators, ”Lauterbach told the Rheinische Post.
Bavaria's Prime Minister
Markus Söder
(
CSU
)
was unimpressed by the introduction of mandatory vaccinations for health workers in France and Greece.
"I am against compulsory vaccinations," said Söder on Deutschlandfunk.
This also applies to teachers or students, for example.
Söder justified his rejection by stating that compulsory vaccination was a »strong encroachment on fundamental rights«.
The head of the country also rejected payments of money as an incentive for vaccinations.
The greatest gain does not have to be a hundred euro note, but "the greatest gain is freedom".
Vaccinated people should have more freedom rights than unvaccinated people.
SPD General Secretary
Lars Klingbeil
also rejects compulsory vaccination.
"I think compulsory vaccination in Germany is wrong, but we have to increase the willingness to vaccinate," he told the broadcasters RTL and n-tv.
You now have to find creative ways to reach people and convince them that vaccination is the way out of the crisis.
As an example, he cited the use of mobile vaccination teams and an offer of vaccinations at vacation spots.
Federal Health
Minister Jens Spahn
(CDU) is
pushing for more efforts to advance the vaccination campaign: "Whether on the market or sports field, in front of churches, mosques or in the drive-thru: It is now important to have creative vaccination campaigns on site in order to reach the undecided", tweeted Spahn.
In the past, the minister had already spoken out against compulsory vaccination.
The vaccination campaign in Germany had recently lost some of its pace, the number of vaccine doses administered on Monday was 448,345, almost 100,000 doses below the value of the previous week.
In total, almost 49 million people in Germany have now received at least one vaccination dose, and over 35 million people have already been fully vaccinated.
For the coming weeks, the federal states want to control the vaccination campaign more and more on a decentralized basis.
Actions are planned, among other things, in parking lots, at events, in town houses, churches and mosques or in job centers, as the responsible ministries said.
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