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Minister of Labor Heil wants to win more Hartz IV recipients for vaccinations
3.30 a.m
.: Federal Labor
Minister
Hubertus Heil (SPD) wants to gain more Hartz IV recipients for corona vaccinations.
"I asked the Federal Employment Agency and the federal states to write to adult people with basic security benefits and to inform them about vaccination offers on site," says Heil to the newspapers of the Funke media group, according to a preliminary report.
The letter campaigns were just starting on site.
According to Heil, the job centers should do their utmost to support the vaccination campaign.
Triple inoculation apparently works against Omikron
1:45 a.m
.: Israeli researchers have found that a triple vaccination with the vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech offers significant protection against the new Omikron variant. "The good news is that the booster dose increases protection 100-fold," Gili Regev-Yochay, director of the infectious diseases division at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv, told reporters. The protection is still about four times lower than that against the delta variant, but the overall good effect of the vaccine makes the researchers optimistic. So far, there is no information on whether and when the booster effect will also decrease, explains the researcher. Sheba conducted the study in collaboration with the Department of Health's Central Virology Laboratory.
Interior Minister Faeser calls on participants in Corona protests to delimit right-wing extremists
1 am
: The new Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) calls on participants in protests against the Corona protective measures to distance themselves more strongly from right-wing extremists and so-called Reich citizens. "Right-wing extremists and Reich citizens are trying to enforce the movement in order to pursue their own goals," said Faeser to the newspapers of the Funke media group, according to a preliminary report. Civil demonstration participants would not distinguish themselves enough from these people. Efforts for social cohesion must be stepped up in order to overcome attempts to divide anti-democratic forces, said the Interior Minister. Faeser also warns against a further radicalization of the so-called lateral thinking movement, as their willingness to use violence is increasing.The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution has therefore once again significantly intensified its observation of all extremist parts of the movement.
Health ministers want to discuss the lifting of compulsory tests for people who have been vaccinated three times
00.30 a.m.:
At their next meeting on Tuesday, the health
ministers of
the federal states want to decide whether there should no longer be a nationwide test for people who have been vaccinated three times in the future.
"We countries need clarity quickly as to whether and from when the compulsory test can be waived for people who have been vaccinated three times. The Federal Minister of Health has promised me that he will make a proposal to the Conference of Health Ministers next Tuesday. This is not only medically sensible, but also provides one additional vaccination incentive ", says Klaus Holetschek (CSU), chairman of the health ministerial conference, the" Bild am Sonntag "according to a preliminary report.
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