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Chancellor Merkel has made specific statements about when the crown’s restrictions on public life could end. He also has a clear position on the issue of mandatory vaccination.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) assumes that after a vaccine against the new coronavirus has been approved, nurses, doctors and people from risk groups will first be vaccinated. The issue will be discussed with the Permanent Vaccination Commission, the Leopoldina Academy of Sciences and the Ethics Commission, Merkel said in a video posted Sunday for the federal government’s virtual open house. At the same time, he emphasized: “No one is obliged to get vaccinated.”
The German government expects the first vaccines to be approved “very soon,” Merkel said. Preparations for vaccination were already underway. However, initially there will not be enough vaccines available. The virus is “more or less defeated” when between 60 and 70 percent of the population is immune, either because they had the disease or by vaccination. “Then we can lift all restrictions.”
Patient advocates want the Bundestag to decide
The vice president of the parliamentary group FDP, Michael Theurer, demanded that the federal government “legitimize in parliament the necessary vaccination strategy and explain it to the general public to achieve a large majority in the population and in parliaments.”
The board of the German Foundation for Patient Protection, Eugen Brysch, expressed a similar opinion. Who should receive the vaccine must first be discussed and decided in the Bundestag. “Only its democratically elected members are legitimized by the people for this.” The federal and state governments should establish bindingly how the vaccine would also reach people in nursing homes.
