Among the measures under discussion is the imposition of mandatory vaccination for workers in some sectors, including the health sector, without yet having an agreement between the three parties negotiating a future government coalition.
The debate, mainly through the media, precedes the vote that will be held next Thursday (11.18.2021) in the Bundestag, which plans to approve the new measures prepared by Social Democrats, Liberals and Greens to replace from November 25 those allowed in the country at the federal level by the regulations applicable to the state of emergency against the pandemic.
But skepticism is already spreading about the ability to control some of them, such as the one that provides that the use of public transport would be restricted to vaccinated people, who had the disease or with a recent negative test.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) of virology registered 32,048 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday, 10,216 more than a week ago, and 265 deaths related to the disease compared to 169 last Tuesday.
The weekly incidence reached a new record with 312.4 infections per 100,000 inhabitants.
The number of patients in intensive care due to the coronavirus reached 3,190, 22 percent more than the previous week.
People queue to get vaccinated in Wunsiedel, Germany.
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That implies an occupancy of 13 percent of the capacities of the intensive care units.
Since the beginning of the pandemic there have been 5,077,124 confirmed infections and 97,980 deaths in Germany.
Meanwhile, the vaccination campaign remains stagnant. 67.6 percent of the population has received the complete schedule of the vaccine and 70.1 percent, the first dose.
German President Frank Walter Steinmeier has called on the population to get vaccinated. Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder said on Tuesday that covid would have ceased to be a problem in Germany if people had been vaccinated.
“It must be said clearly, if people had been vaccinated – and in summer we could have vaccinated all of us – the coronavirus would have ceased to be a problem in Germany,” Söder said in statements to the Morgenmagazin program on German public television.
Bavaria is just the federal state where the highest number of new infections are occurring and Söder admitted that there is resistance from part of the population to the vaccine.
“We have various groups, some esoteric, some from the extreme right, who reject the vaccine. We have to insist on the information campaign to overcome resistance,” admitted Söder.
CP (efe, dpa)
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