New restrictions possible for non – vaccinated people in Germany / Article

If the new coronavirus infection continues to rise in Germany, the unvaccinated may face new restrictions, said Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office manager Helge Brown in an interview with Bild am Sonntag on Sunday.

“Vaccinated people will definitely enjoy more freedom than non-vaccinated people,” he said.

Currently, Germans are allowed to visit restaurants, cinemas or sports clubs if they have been fully vaccinated or can test negative for Covid-19.

However, Brown warned that if infection rates got worse, unvaccinated people would not have enough of the test to go to the cinema, stadium or canteen.

According to him, the risk would be too high in that case, but the state has a duty to protect human health and that means also to ensure that doctors do not have to postpone planned surgeries in the winter in an attempt to cope with the influx of Covid-19 patients.

In Germany, infection rates have been relatively low this summer compared to many other European countries, but have started to rise markedly in the last two weeks with the spread of the virus delta.

Merkel has recently expressed concern about the trend and encouraged people to get vaccinated.

According to the latest data, by Sunday, 60.8% of the population in Germany had received at least one dose of the vaccine, and 49.1% of Germans had completed the vaccination process.

However, Merkel has indicated that she does not intend to follow the example of France and other countries and impose mandatory vaccination for certain groups of the society.

German Health Minister Jens Span said in early July that in the event of a new outbreak of Covid-19, vaccinated people in Germany would not be subject to restrictions as severe as during the previous wave of the disease, as long as there were no mutations affecting vaccine protection.

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