Corona: Annalena Baerbock does not rule out restrictions for unvaccinated people

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Annalena Baerbock, party leader and candidate for chancellor of the Greens, at the start of the Brandenburg regional group's election campaign in Michendorf

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Green chancellor candidate Annalena Baerbock does not rule out restrictions for unvaccinated people in view of the rising number of corona infections. First of all, the most important thing is to offer everyone a vaccination, she said at the start of the Brandenburg Greens campaign for the federal election. "And then in the next step, when that has been done, to talk about the fact that in some areas people who are vaccinated can do things and others cannot," Baerbock explained.

High-ranking politicians from the Union had previously made similar statements. Chancellery Minister Helge Braun (CDU) initiated the discussion about restrictions for people without a corona vaccination. "That can also mean that certain offers such as restaurant, cinema and stadium visits would no longer be possible even for tested unvaccinated people because the residual risk is too high," said Braun of "Bild am Sonntag".

Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) spoke out in favor of more freedom for vaccinated people.

"This is not discrimination against the unvaccinated," he said in an interview with RTL and n-tv.

He respects when someone decides against a vaccination for personal reasons.

"But the non-vaccinated person must also realize that we have to protect society as a whole and therefore only allow the vaccinated to participate in larger community events."

Government rejects compulsory vaccination

Making vaccination against the coronavirus mandatory is currently not an option for the federal government.

Federal Justice and Family Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) told Deutschlandfunk: “There will be no general compulsory vaccination.” It is also not legally possible.

In her opinion, a corona vaccination could not be a prerequisite for an employment contract.

If there are people who refuse to be vaccinated in homes or hospitals, there is still the possibility that they will have to be tested regularly.

The fact that vaccinated people, genesis and tested people are treated equally when it comes to access to events has proven itself.

After everyone had received a vaccination offer, one had to ask why the general public had to pay for these tests, said Lambrecht.

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