Klopp sees Premier League professionals 'moral obligation to vaccinate'

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Liverpool coach Jurgen Klopp

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Liverpool coach Jürgen Klopp urged the professionals to vaccinate in view of the renewed corona situation in English football.

The coach sees a "moral obligation" to get vaccinated.

The 54-year-old judged a legal vaccination requirement cautiously: "I still believe that you can convince people to do the right thing."

Almost half of all games in the first four English leagues have been postponed this weekend because there are too many corona cases in the teams.

The Omikron variant has spread rapidly in Great Britain in the past few days and has also hit the Premier League and the other leagues massively.

According to figures called by the British "Times", a good quarter of the professionals in the three leagues below the Premier League are unvaccinated, according to the English Football League.

No current figures are available for the Premier League itself.

In October, the league announced that 68 percent of the professionals had been vaccinated twice, 81 percent had already received one dose.

Series A with a vaccination rate of 98 percent

The numbers from Spain and Italy are higher.

For example, the Serie A reported a vaccination status of 98 percent on Friday (double vaccination), and a vaccination rate of 93 from the Primera División was reported from Spain.

In Germany, too, the vaccination rate in professional football is significantly higher than on the island: at the end of November, the DFL reported that 86 of the 1,000 players from the 1st and 2nd league were still without a vaccination.

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