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Winfried Kretschmann (archive photo): »Hope dies last«
Photo: Winfried Rothermel / imago images/Winfried Rothermel
Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann fears that general vaccination against the corona virus will not come after all.
"You can - as it seems - have some doubts about that," said the Green politician on Monday evening on SWR television.
»At the moment it doesn't look as if the Bundestag can agree on a line.
But hope dies last."
At the end of November - in the middle of the fourth corona wave - Kretschmann spoke out in favor of the rapid implementation of general vaccination.
While the heads of government of the federal states are unanimously in favor of this, opinions in the Bundestag differ greatly.
Last week, the Bundestag dealt with five specific applications for the first time.
At the moment it is uncertain whether an application for compulsory vaccination will prevail.
However, the time for preventive measures until autumn is running out: the Federal Council could agree to compulsory vaccination in April at the earliest, and the law would not be introduced until May at the earliest.
In view of the fact that there must be several months between the first vaccination and full immunization, experts are skeptical as to whether the missing almost ten million unvaccinated people will be vaccinated before the start of an imminent corona wave in September.
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