The delta variant ensures that in some countries the governments want to take tough action again.
The growing pressure to get vaccinated is driving people onto the streets in many places.
Paris / Rome / Athens - In several European countries, thousands of people demonstrated against stricter corona measures and against disadvantages for unvaccinated people.
In France, more than 160,000 people took to the streets across the country on Saturday, as the French news channel Franceinfo reported.
There were riots and arrests both there and at a demonstration by anti-vaccination campaigners in Athens.
In Rome, 3,000 people protested, among other things, against the digital corona certificate of the EU, according to media reports there were also demonstrations in other Italian cities.
In all three countries, the governments have recently tightened the corona measures again in view of the increasing number of infections.
In France, compulsory vaccination for health workers has been initiated, in Greece one has already been decreed.
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Greek police use tear gas and water cannons to evict anti-vaccination protesters during a rally in Syntagma Square.
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In addition, the governments in Italy and France are planning to link access to many locations to evidence of a corona vaccination, a negative test result or recovery.
In France, such evidence could soon become compulsory for long-distance trains and shopping centers, for example, in Italy corresponding evidence must be submitted from August 6, for example for visits to the interior areas of restaurants and fitness studios.
A week ago, around 114,000 people across the country protested against the government's plans in France.
On Friday, the members of the National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, then gave their approval to the planned compulsory vaccination for health workers in the first reading.
There are currently no corona vaccination requirements in Germany.
Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann did not completely rule out such a regulation on Sunday.
"It is possible that variants arise that make this necessary," said the Green politician of the German press agency.
Chancellery Minister Helge Braun (CDU) promised in the "Bild am Sonntag" that vaccinated people will have "definitely more freedom" than those who were not vaccinated.
Protests against corona measures with thousands of participants also took place in Sydney on Saturday. There has been a strict lockdown for a month now due to the spread of the more contagious delta variant of the corona virus. Similar rallies have been reported from Brisbane and Melbourne. dpa
