The controversial topic of free corona tests is apparently moving.
As a result, free corona tests could soon be abolished.
Berlin - The current phase of the corona pandemic is characterized by a vaccination campaign that is slowing down.
At the same time, the seven-day incidence has been rising continuously for weeks.
Politicians are concerned about this, especially in view of the spread of the delta mutation and the possibility of a fourth wave in autumn.
A hot topic in this context is the question of whether the corona * tests, which were previously free of charge, should be abolished in the future.
The
picture
newspaper According could already to a decision to have fallen.
Official confirmation has not yet been received, but the newspaper cites “government circles” for its information.
Also
Focus Online
reported on the basis of
image
-Artikels that the federal government wants to do away with the free rapid tests.
Corona: is the end of free tests?
The federal government apparently has concrete plans
The target time should therefore be the end of September or the beginning of October. The background to this is that by this deadline all citizens would have the opportunity to be vaccinated twice against the coronavirus. Due to the vaccination progress, the right to free tests for non-vaccinated people should expire. The government coalition made up of the Union and the SPD agreed in principle on this,
Bild
wants to
know.
Furthermore, the SPD candidate for chancellor, vice chancellor and federal finance minister Olaf Scholz should have spoken out in favor of an end to the free corona tests *.
He had previously expressed this view on “Brigitte Live”.
The Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU boss Markus Söder * is pushing for such a step, it continues.
Apparently, Scholz told the tabloid newspaper that, due to the progress in vaccination, there would then no longer be any entitlement to have the tests "paid for by the general public" until autumn.
Will corona tests have to be paid for in the future?
For CDU politicians "no compulsory vaccination through the back door"
CDU politician Thorsten Frei, vice-head of the Union parliamentary group, is said to have told the newspaper: “For children and adolescents who are not allowed to be vaccinated, we need to continue to be free of charge. Everyone else should bear the costs of the tests that they cause. ”This is“ not a compulsory vaccination through the back door, ”the
Bild
quotes him
, but rather a question of fairness.
There had already been an increasing number of voices from politics calling for an end to the free tests * - as soon as all citizens could take advantage of a vaccination offer.
But the President of the German Medical Association, Klaus Reinhardt, had already pleaded in mid-July not to offer free corona tests to those who refused to vaccinate from the fall.
"If everyone has had a chance to get a full vaccination by the end of the summer, it is appropriate that unvaccinated rapid or PCR tests have to pay for themselves when they go on vacation, go to a restaurant or go to the cinema," he said Reinhardt to the
editorial network Germany
.
The community should not pay for those unwilling to be vaccinated.
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