The chairman of the World Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, spoke against it of a correct measure. He is from the “Augsburger Allgemeine“Quoted with the words that vaccination is” a social act “. Anyone who does not get vaccinated despite repeated vaccination offers and many options” must also bear the consequences of their actions “.
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08:52 am | Plea for more free “Citizen tests”
Bremen’s Senator for Health, Claudia Bernhard, has spoken out in favor of continuing to offer free Covid-19 “citizen tests”. Without them the overview of the pandemic situation would be lost, said the left-wing politician of the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. There will then be significantly less data and “many people will simply no longer be tested”.
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08:32 am | Further criticism of the end of continued payment of wages
The Verdi union has also criticized the fact that unvaccinated workers in quarantine should no longer receive compensation for loss of earnings. This exerted “enormous pressure”, said Gabriele Schmidt, Regional Director of North Rhine-Westphalia, today in the “Morgenecho” on WDR 5. It is about a “question of existence”. Unrest in companies is to be feared and further division.
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The virologist Hendrik Streeck also criticized the new regulation. He said in the ARD talk show “maischberger.die woche” on Wednesday evening: “We work with penalties and that leads to pressure where people say at the end: I don’t even tell my employer that I have Corona.”
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08:01 am | Bancel: “The pandemic will be over in a year”
The boss of the vaccine manufacturer Moderna, Stephane Bancel, does not expect the coronavirus pandemic to end for a year. By mid-2022, however, there would be enough vaccine to protect everyone, said Bancel of the “Neue Zürcher Zeitung”. Then Covid-19 will be like the flu and the vaccination, on the other hand, can be part of a combined vaccination against various respiratory viruses. Moderna developed such a vaccination, which could be available from 2023. “The pandemic will be over in a year,” the Moderna boss was quoted as saying by the Swiss newspaper.
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07:20 am | Dahmen criticizes the cancellation of wage replacement
The health expert of the Greens parliamentary group, Janosch Dahmen, has criticized the cancellation of the quarantine wage replacement for unvaccinated employees. In the ZDF morning magazine he said today: “As a doctor, I worry that people may no longer report when they have a positive test result, no longer go into quarantine and thus become a danger to others again, and we do something like that like getting a hidden pandemic. ” According to Dahmen, a necessary step would be to test more consistently in the workplace and to introduce 3G rules in the workplace as in other EU countries.
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