SPD Vice Kuchaty calls for clarity about the fourth vaccination

Created: 2022-01-24 05:49

Thomas Kuchaty (SPD) speaks.

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The deputy SPD chairman Thomas Kutschaty expects a clear announcement from the prime ministers' conference on Monday that a fourth vaccination is currently not necessary.

"Many citizens are asking in the doctor's office whether they need a fourth vaccination now," said the opposition leader in the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament of the German Press Agency.

Berlin - Clarity is now needed.

With the third so-called booster vaccination one is well protected, which is also shown by the experiences of the countries in which vaccinations have already been given for the fourth time.

"The priority continues to be that those who are not fully vaccinated can have boosters up to the third vaccination."

The prime ministers of the federal states will discuss how to proceed in the corona pandemic with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) on Monday.

There are no signs of any changes to the existing measures, which Kuchaty welcomes.

"Currently there is no room for easing or tightening," he told the dpa.

"I expect that we will continue to act with a sense of proportion in the pandemic policy and not come to hasty conclusions that we may soon regret."

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Decisions are expected in the federal-state group, among other things, on the subject of PCR tests.

Minister Lauterbach and the health ministers of the federal states had spoken out in favor of a so-called prioritization: given the limited laboratory capacities, certain population groups should be given preferential rights to the particularly precise tests.

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