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Ver.di boss calls for an extension of the pandemic situation
4.30 a.m.:
Ver.di boss Frank Werneke has called for a correction of the expiry of the epidemic corona emergency targeted by the nascent traffic light coalition. "The expiry of the pandemic is a mistake," said Werneke in Berlin. "At this point there should be a correction." The SPD, Greens and FDP in the Bundestag want to let the epidemic emergency run out on November 25, against the will of the Union, the incumbent Chancellor Angela Merkel and, for example, several Green health ministers of the federal states.
With an amendment to the Infection Protection Act, the federal states are to be given the opportunity to apply a smaller catalog of measures until March 19.
Werneke criticized: "That is the wrong signal in this critical situation." It cannot be ruled out that contact restrictions will again have to occur.
"This possibility is now to be largely surrendered." With this, the union chairman, himself a member of the SPD, opposes the first concrete project of the coalition of the SPD candidate for Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Habeck brings contact blocks for unvaccinated people into play
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Greens boss Robert Habeck starts talking in view of the current corona situation. »Contact restrictions are painful cuts, we all know that too well. But in view of the dramatic situation, they can be necessary regionally for unmiped people, «says Habeck to the newspapers of the Funke media group. In addition, the countries needed the opportunity to cancel events if the epidemic situation made it necessary.
Habeck urged the population to vaccinate.
He considers compulsory vaccination for certain professional groups to be sensible.
It is also imperative to establish 3G measures in the workplace.
Home office should be used more intensively again.
“The situation in Germany is extremely dramatic.
If the fourth wave is not broken quickly, the hospital system threatens to collapse in December, ”says Habeck.
Doctors expect corona patients to be transferred across Germany
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Medical representatives expect that corona patients will have to be distributed across Germany in the future in order to relieve regions with overcrowded clinics. "The number of corona patients in the intensive care units will rise so much in the coming weeks that a supra-regional, perhaps even Germany-wide transfer will be necessary in some places in order to provide relief in time for particularly affected regions," says the chairwoman of the Marburger Doctors' Union Bund, Susanne Johna, the newspapers of the Funke media group. The doctor's representative is concerned about the power-political transition phase between the previous and the new government: “The numbers are rising rapidly and there is a power vacuum in politics between the old and future government, the federal government and the federal states."You have never been so worried in the pandemic as you are now," said Johna.
Lauterbach for 3G rule in train traffic
01:00 a.m.:
Because of the worsening Corona situation, politicians are now calling for the 3G rule to be applied in train traffic.
Travelers would then have to be vaccinated, recovered or tested.
Among others, SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach speaks out in favor.
»3G should also apply on trains.
In this Corona situation, it is irresponsible that people, unvaccinated and untested, sit close to other passengers for hours in long-distance traffic, "Lauterbach told" Bild am Sonntag ".
Union fears long-term shortages in nursing professions
0.49 a.m.:
The Ver.di union has warned of a long-term shortage of nursing staff due to the current sharp rise in infections with the coronavirus and the threat of overload in the intensive care units.
"Many employees in the care sector have turned their backs on their job en masse, even though they love it," said Verdi board member Sylvia Bühler of "Bild am Sonntag".
"We are threatened with a real exodus in nursing."
In addition to those dropping out of their careers, many nurses would also reduce their working hours and more and more trainees would drop out of their training, Bühler said.
The current fourth wave of the pandemic "broke the barrel".
Health care is at risk, "not only in the pandemic, not only in the hospitals, but also beyond."
Heil wants to reintroduce the obligation to work from home
0.15 a.m.:
Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) wants to reintroduce an obligation to work from home due to the increasing number of infections with the corona virus.
This was reported by "Bild am Sonntag" with reference to a draft law that the Federal Ministry of Labor had submitted to the traffic light parties SPD, Greens and FDP.
Accordingly, 3G is also mandatory in the workplace.
"In the case of office work or comparable activities, the employer has to offer employees to carry out these activities in their home, if there are no compelling operational reasons to the contrary," the newspaper quotes from the draft.
"The employees have to accept this offer, provided there are no reasons to the contrary."
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