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Corona: Maas decided against compulsory vaccination for everyone

2021-11-20T09:04:22.314Z


Austria is introducing it, CSU boss Söder also thinks it makes sense in Germany - but the traffic light parties have so far clearly rejected the compulsory vaccination. Foreign Minister Maas, however, defines an exception.


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Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) on the way to a government machine

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The dispute about a possible vaccination requirement in Germany is entering the next round.

On Friday, neighbor Austria announced a general compulsory corona vaccination - politicians from the ranks of the possible future traffic light coalition reject such a step in Germany.

"There won't be," said the acting Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) to the TV broadcaster Bild Live.

"Because we don't consider it necessary, because we also consider it difficult from a constitutional point of view." There will be compulsory vaccination for certain professional groups, "and I think that's right".

On Thursday, the federal and state governments had already agreed in the Prime Minister's Conference to initiate a facility-related vaccination requirement.

Accordingly, in facilities in which particularly vulnerable people are cared for, the staff should be obliged to have a corona vaccination.

The implementation is the task of the Bundestag.

(Here you can find an overview of all resolutions of the Bund-Länder-Round)

Austria introduces mandatory vaccination

When it comes to neighboring Austria, they go one step further.

Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced on Friday that it would be the first country in the EU to introduce compulsory corona vaccination from February 2022.

In view of the massive fourth corona wave, the country will go into a lockdown again from Monday, which for those who have been vaccinated and recovered should definitely end on December 13th at the latest.

The FDP health politician Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus now told the »Bild«: »Putting the general compulsory vaccination in the room as a threat does not help anyone.« Especially the countries with dramatic corona numbers »should concentrate on expanding the vaccination offers as agreed and to implement the new Corona measures «.

Wink in the direction of Bavaria

The "threatening backdrop" can be understood as a sign in the direction of Bavaria: Bavaria's Prime Minister, CSU boss Markus Söder, spoke out in favor of a general vaccination requirement on Friday.

"I believe that in the end we will not be able to avoid compulsory vaccination," he said.

Otherwise it would be »an endless loop with this crap corona«.

Along with Saxony and Thuringia, Bavaria is currently hardest hit by the fourth wave.

On Friday, Söder canceled all Christmas markets and imposed a "de facto lockdown" for unvaccinated people: 2G now applies across the board in the Free State, and contact restrictions for unvaccinated people are also being introduced.

In corona hotspots with a seven-day incidence of more than 1000, public life is also shut down in large areas.

The shutdown measures should apply until mid-December.

mrc / dpa

Source: spiegel

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