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The nationwide
seven-day incidence
has risen again.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Tuesday morning as
312.4
.
For comparison: the previous day the value was 303.
The seven-day incidence thus reached a new high for the ninth day in a row.
The value indicates the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days.
On Monday of last week, he 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 corona infections were
recorded
within 24 hours
.
That is 10,216 more cases than on Tuesday a week ago, when 21,832 new infections were reported.
In addition, the health authorities registered
265 further deaths
related to Covid-19.
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.
"Politicians have to ask themselves how many corona deaths they still want to accept"
In view of the ever-increasing number of cases, there is an increasing discussion in Germany about compulsory vaccination.
In the coalition negotiations of the traffic light parties, for example, a possible vaccination requirement for employees of certain facilities such as nursing homes is being discussed.
The constitutional lawyer Christian Pestalozza has now said that he considers the introduction of a corona vaccination obligation inevitable under certain conditions.
If the "small relief measures" to fight the pandemic are not enough, politicians are "even constitutionally obliged to take more stringent measures" such as mandatory vaccination, he told the editorial network in Germany.
If an occupational group-specific vaccination requirement is not sufficient, a general vaccination requirement is also permissible.
"Politicians have to ask themselves how many more corona deaths they want to accept and how high the incidences should rise before vaccination becomes compulsory," said Pestalozza.
According to him, sanctions such as fines for violations could be introduced to enforce such a compulsory vaccination.
Pestalozza admitted that a law on compulsory vaccination could land before the Federal Constitutional Court.
Politicians should "not put their hands on their laps out of concern before the constitutional court."
aar / AFP