Will the corona vaccination be required? The traffic light is split - Lauterbach rushes forward

The corona situation in Germany is dramatic.

That calls the specter of mandatory vaccination on the stage.

Opinions differ.

The news ticker.

Berlin - There is hardly a topic that is currently heating people up as much as a possible general vaccination requirement *.

In view of the dramatically increasing number of infections in Germany, the debate continues to gain momentum.

Because the fact is: Too few people have been vaccinated against the corona virus so far.

The RKI recorded 70.5 percent of the population as

vaccinated

at the weekend

.

Not enough, given the rampant delta mutation, which is considered to be the most contagious corona variant to date.

So what to do

Will the vaccination be compulsory?

Opinions in politics differ widely - the debate continues to gain momentum

There is now a debate about compulsory vaccination not only for selected professions, such as in the health sector, but for all people in Germany.

You have to start thinking about it, demanded about SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach on Sunday in the program “The Right Questions” on the TV channel Bild.

"I would definitely not rule that out anymore and tend to say: This does not help us acutely, but we have to get closer to mandatory vaccination." to make ends meet with the strength of the vaccines we have and the R-value of the Delta variant. "

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Karl Lauterbach (SPD), health expert, will take part in the session of the Bundestag on November 18, 2021.

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The FDP parliamentary deputy (and possible future Federal Health Minister *) Michael Theurer sees it completely differently.

In the same broadcast, he described compulsory vaccination as "unconstitutional".

The deputy chairman of the Union parliamentary group in the Bundestag, Thorsten Frei, was also very skeptical.

A general compulsory vaccination is likely "because of the serious interference with the right to physical integrity under the current framework conditions also disproportionate and thus unconstitutional," he told the

on Monday.

Corona in federal states: General vaccination requirements are controversial - Söder is open

Opinions on compulsory vaccination also differ in the federal states. The Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans does not consider a discussion about a general vaccination against the coronavirus * to be sensible at the moment. That said the CDU politician on Sunday evening in the ARD program "Anne Will". "Now I really ask you to concentrate all your strength on the vaccination." You haven't done enough "to really convince you that the vaccination is the right way," said Hans. "We have whole strata of the population in precarious life situations that we couldn't get at."

Several representatives of the Union had recently been open to a general compulsory vaccination.

If it doesn't go without it, he is ready to take this step, said Schleswig-Holstein's Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU) of the

.

The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) had already pleaded for a general vaccination * on Friday.

RKI boss Wieler sees compulsory vaccination as a last resort - Holetschek: "talk quickly about this topic"

The President of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler, has called for a vaccination again in view of the dramatic Corona situation. "We have to make sure that we get as many people as possible to vaccinate and boost those who have a complete basic immunization," said Wieler on Sunday evening in the ZDF's "Today Journal". In the debate about compulsory vaccination, he expressed himself reluctantly, but referred to considerations as a last resort.

Compulsory vaccination is "a means, and I am completely with the (World Health Organization) WHO, which we all do not want," said Wieler. “It is really nobody who would like to have a mandatory vaccination. There are many, many studies on this, many scientists do not find a good solution. But if you have tried everything else, then the WHO says: Then you have to think about compulsory vaccination. "

Bavaria's Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) can also imagine a general vaccination requirement.

"I was actually always an opponent of mandatory vaccinations," he told Deutschlandfunk on Monday morning.

In the meantime, however, he believes “that we have to talk about this topic relatively quickly”.

Compulsory vaccination will not help today and tomorrow, but it is the way out of the pandemic.

“Personally, as a last resort, I am now actually in favor of this general compulsory vaccination.” This should be discussed relatively quickly in Berlin - a nationwide solution is needed. 

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