Chancellery Minister Helge Braun (CDU) announces massive disadvantages for unvaccinated people.
In view of the currently rising incidences, he calls for vaccination.
Germany - The corona numbers continue to rise.
The seven-day incidence is 14.3 on Monday (July 26).
Experts are worried about this development, especially with a view to autumn.
Chancellery Minister Helge Braun (48, CDU) explains: “The number of new infections is increasing even faster than in the previous waves.
That worries me very much. ”He therefore calls for a vaccination.
At the same time, the minister announced: "Vaccinated people will definitely have more freedom than unvaccinated people", as
reported by RUHR24
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Corona demand: ban restaurants or stadiums even for those who have been tested
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, Helge Braun (CDU) explained that a lockdown was no longer necessary - at least as long as the vaccines worked so well.
But if the fourth wave came in Germany, unvaccinated people would “have to reduce their contacts” if there was a high infection rate.
And further: "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."
If the incidence is high, it would also be difficult to protect schools, says Helge Braun.
He therefore demands: “Parents, teachers, caretakers and school bus drivers have to get vaccinated.
If these groups are all vaccinated, the risk for the children is less. "
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Calls for advantages for vaccinated people: Chancellery chief Helge Braun (CDU)
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Bavaria's Prime Minister wants to abolish free tests for unvaccinated people
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) had previously
spoken out
to the
Augsburger Allgemeine in
favor of starting a vaccination program for schoolchildren.
In addition, a "binding formula consisting of the incidence value, vaccination rate and occupied hospital beds is needed to know when measures need to be taken - and what rights result for those who have been vaccinated", said the minister.
It is already clear: Unvaccinated people should no longer be given free corona tests.
Corona pandemic: Federal Minister of the Interior calls for more freedom for vaccinated people
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (72, CSU) also pleads with
RTL
for more freedom for vaccinated people.
This is not a discrimination against non-vaccinated people, so Seehofer.
He also respects it if someone decides against a vaccination for personal reasons.
Nevertheless, the Federal Minister of the Interior warns: "But the unvaccinated person must also understand that we have to protect society as a whole and therefore only the vaccinated can admit to larger community events."
Coronavirus: Green politician no longer excludes compulsory vaccination
Such voices do not only come from the Union.
Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (73) from the Greens also stated that it was possible "that at some point we will only allow certain areas and activities to be restricted to vaccinated people."
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No longer completely excludes compulsory vaccination: Winfried Kretschmann (Alliance 90 / The Greens)
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The Green politician even considers mandatory vaccination to be conceivable.
"I cannot rule out compulsory vaccination forever," he said.
"It is possible that variants arise that make this necessary." Because vaccination is a civic duty for him.
"Every responsible person should just do that," says Winfried Kretschmann (Alliance 90 / The Greens).
Armin Laschet (CDU) does not want to put pressure on unvaccinated people - at least for the time being
Opposing voices come from NRW: Prime Minister Armin Laschet (60, CDU) spoke out against compulsory vaccination and the advantages of vaccinated people over those tested (more information on the corona virus in NRW * on RUHR24).
In the
ZDF
summer interview
, the Union's candidate for chancellor stated that the rule applies that vaccinated people, genesis and tested people are on an equal footing.
“This principle is good,” says Laschet.
“In a free state, there are not just certain groups of people.” He therefore does not believe in putting indirect pressure on people who do not want to be vaccinated.
But the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia does not seem to want to completely rule out further steps.
He explains that in order to generally regain more freedom, a high vaccination rate is important.
Therefore, everything must be done to convince more people to get vaccinated.
And further: “When we see in autumn that the vaccination rate is still far too low, I think, then we have to think further.
But not now."
“Compulsory vaccination through the back door” unconstitutional - FDP with harsh criticism
Bundestag Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki (69) from the FDP finds even clearer words for Helge Braun's advance.
This would be "the introduction of mandatory vaccination through the back door" and clearly unconstitutional, the FDP politician told the newspapers of the
Funke media group
.
And further: "The exercise of basic rights cannot be made permanently dependent on a good conduct defined as correct by the Chancellery".
Party colleague Michael Theurer (54, FDP) also railed against the Augsburger Allgemeine: "While Kretschmann brings the vaccination requirement directly into play, Chancellery Minister Braun wants to introduce the vaccination requirement through the back door." Instead of threatening government coercion, according to the FDP- Politicians, are "incentives the better way".
Helge Braun (CDU): Disadvantages for unvaccinated people are legal
Chancellery Minister Helge Braun (CDU) had previously
stated
on request from
Bild am Sonntag
that he considered such disadvantages for non-vaccinated people to be legal.
Because: "The state has a duty to protect the health of its citizens".
This includes "a health system that does not have to postpone cancer and joint operations again in winter to treat corona patients." And this also includes "the protection of those who are not vaccinated." The indirect vaccination requirement has been hotly debated since February *.
Corona: fear of autumn - Spahn and Braun warn of the 800 incidence
At the same time, the head of the Chancellery warned that the incidence in autumn - as early as the general election on September 26 - could be over 800.
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (41, CDU) had previously warned of an 800 incidence in the fall.
However, Spahn also notes that “200 is the new 50”, since risk groups have now been vaccinated - and therefore less severe courses can be expected.
For this reason, there are also increasing voices calling for a new warning value instead of the incidence.
For example, the Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer (60, SPD), advocates using the burden on the health system as a benchmark.
Nevertheless, an incidence of 800 would be far too high either way: According to calculations according to the
Spiegel
report,
experts from the TU Berlin assume
that the hospitals are threatened with overload in the fall of an incidence between 400 and 500.
Correspondingly high incidences also made it easier for the virus to mutate.
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