Perhaps money helps as an incentive or does it mean that certain occupational groups are required to be vaccinated?
Several EU countries are struggling with the pandemic - and with vaccination skeptics.
Berlin - Corona is felt more and more in the background in Germany.
According to the RKI, the vaccination rate is higher than previously thought, and the longed-for relaxations are gradually coming.
But not so incredibly far away, namely even in the EU, the pathogen is anything but under control, for example Romania.
Corona in the EU: Latvia imposes partial compulsory vaccination
Anyone who currently calls up the corona dashboard of the Johns Hopkins University with regard to Europe will find out that the incidences in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Serbia are very high.
Latvia, for example, is therefore
declaring
a state of emergency again,
according to
Ärzteblatt
- from October 11th to January 11th.
Only half of the residents are therefore fully vaccinated against Corona.
"This wave is the deadliest, despite all our efforts, more than 90 percent of the intubated die," currently quoted
rtl.de
Tanja Adzic Vukicevic, head of the Covid hospital in Batajnica, referring to the local newspaper
Direktno
.
In Latvia, just under half of the 1.9 million inhabitants are fully vaccinated against Corona.
The government has been trying for months to increase the population's low willingness to vaccinate - with only moderate success.
In the public service and for certain professional groups, a corona vaccination has been established.
This has recently increased the vaccination rate.
Corona vaccination campaign in the EU: People in Serbia are skeptical
Serbia started corona vaccinations in December of the previous year.
The Balkan country also used vaccines from China and Russia on a large scale, which were not yet approved in the EU.
Ultimately, however, the unwillingness to vaccinate in many parts of the population proved to be an obstacle to a successful vaccination campaign.
Only 40 percent of the population had fully vaccinated by August 2021.
Vaccine skeptics in the EU: Lithuania tries money incentives
Lithuania, on the other hand, wants to motivate seniors in the Corona crisis with a financial incentive for a vaccination.
The parliament in Vilnius on Wednesday approved a one-off payment of 100 euros for newly vaccinated people over 75 years of age, decided by the government.
The project was justified with the low vaccination rate in this age group.
The payment is due to seniors who have not received a vaccination by September 1st and are fully vaccinated by December 1st.
Fully vaccinated seniors who have been given another dose of an approved corona vaccine for a booster by April 1st should also be granted financial aid.
(dpa / frs)
