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FDP defense politician for compulsory corona vaccination in the Bundeswehr
05.28 a.m.:
The FDP defense
politician
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann has spoken out in favor of making corona vaccination mandatory in the Bundeswehr.
To do this, she should be included in the catalog of vaccinations subject to tolerance, Strack-Zimmermann told the German Press Agency.
This should apply to soldiers, but also to civilian workers who also went on missions.
At the same time, she pointed out that the vaccination quota in the armed forces of the Bundeswehr is over 80 percent and thus well above the national average.
"In addition, there are soldiers who have had themselves vaccinated privately, which in Germany for reasons of data protection may not be recorded by the employer," she said.
With the obligation to tolerate a number of vaccinations, a basic vaccination program was introduced for soldiers as a prerequisite for immediate readiness for action.
“These include tetanus, diphtheria, whooping cough, influenza and hepatitis A and B, and when used in Mali, for example, the vaccination against yellow fever.
The Covid-19 vaccination is not yet one of them, "she said.
Scholz supports the debate about compulsory corona vaccination in nursing homes
5 a.m.:
SPD Chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz supports a debate about compulsory corona vaccination for certain professional groups such as those working in nursing homes. "I think it is right that we have now started a discussion about whether this should be done," said the Executive Vice Chancellor on Monday evening at the economic summit of the "Süddeutsche Zeitung". To speak of it alone is a clear statement; The SPD, the Greens and the FDP deliberately opened this debate.
Scholz said at the same time that compulsory vaccination for certain professional groups was only possible if there was a consensus "that many want to participate".
"When that is reached, I think that's a good thing," he said.
Such a decision could also be made at short notice.
The Greens had also announced that possible future government partners wanted to talk about compulsory vaccination for employees in nursing homes, for example.
Federal states are calling for the bridging aid to be extended
4 a.m.:
In view of the increasing incidence figures in Germany, the federal states are demanding an extension of the Corona bridging aid III Plus beyond the end of the year by a large majority.
That is the result of a query among the state economics ministries and senate administrations that the chairman of the conference of economics ministers, Andreas Pinkwart (FDP), carried out.
Bridging aid III Plus, the federal government's central crisis instrument, is currently limited to the end of 2021.
The bridging aid is given to companies with a corona-related drop in sales of at least 30 percent.
Fixed operating costs are reimbursed.
"With the exception of Brandenburg and Schleswig-Holstein, all the other states have spoken out in favor of an extension," said the NRW Economics Minister, summarizing the result in a letter to the Executive Minister of Economics, Peter Altmaier (CDU).
Pinkwart spoke out in favor of extending the aid until March 2022.
At the same time, the federal states expressed the »urgent request« to »appropriately extend« the deadline for the final settlement of the corona aid in order to relieve the burden on the approval offices.
Corona incidence rises to 312.4 - ninth high in a row
03.45 a.m.:
The nationwide seven-day incidence of new corona infections has again increased significantly.
As the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Tuesday morning, citing data from the health authorities, the value increased to 312.4 and thus reached a new high for the ninth day in a row.
The previous day the incidence was 303.0.
The full report on the current numbers can be found here: The seven-day incidence rises to 312.4
The seven-day incidence indicates the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days.
On Monday of last week, the value had exceeded the threshold of 200, which had been the highest level since the beginning of the pandemic.
Since then, new highs have been recorded every day.
According to the latest information from the RKI
32,048 new coronavirus infections
were found within 24 hours
and
265 other deaths
related to Covid-19 recorded.
The
total number of registered
cases of
infection
in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic rose to
5,077,124
,
the total number of recorded
deaths
in connection with a corona infection to
97,980
.
Passenger Association Pro Bahn - 3G control cannot be implemented in trains
01.06 a.m.:
The passenger association Pro Bahn considers a control of corona vaccinations and tests in trains to be impracticable. "3G regulations in railways sound sensible, but cannot be implemented in a controlled manner", says the honorary chairman of the Pro Bahn passenger association, Karl-Peter Naumann, to the newspapers of the Funke media group. “A check might work on night trains because passengers check in there before the journey. But on S-Bahn or regional trains, the passenger frequency is too high and the travel times too short for sustainable control. Here I consider the previous practice of wearing a mask and keeping your distance to be appropriate. "
Checking even on long-distance trains is difficult, "because travel times, for example in North Rhine-Westphalia, are sometimes very short and there is no stop between Hamburg and Berlin to let non-vaccinated people get off." lead to long queues not only in rush hour traffic.
GEW union rejects compulsory vaccination for certain occupational groups
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The Education and Science Union (GEW) opposes compulsory corona vaccination for individual professional groups.
"The only way out of the pandemic is through a high vaccination quota in the entire population and appropriate behavior to protect yourself and others," said GEW chairman Maike Finnern to the editorial network Germany (RND).
At the same time, however, she emphasized: "The GEW rejects compulsory vaccination for certain occupational groups."
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