Category: Health
Spahn: booster vaccinations to be made possible for everyone
(GermanPolicy.com) – Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) has announced that the governments on federal and state level want to make booster vaccinations possible for the entire population in Germany. This was decided by the federal as well as the state health ministers at a…
Chair of the Greens parliamentary group for tightening Covid-19 rules
(GermanPolicy.com) – The chair of the Greens parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, Katrin Göring-Eckardt, has called for action against the “rapidly worsening Corona situation.” In view of the “dramatic” development, one must “act urgently,” she said, according to media reports. “We need clear, binding…
FDP in favor of reintroducing free Covid-19 rapid tests
(GermanPolicy.com) – The head of the FDP, Christian Lindner, and FDP general secretary Volker Wissing have spoken out in favor of reviving the citizen tests. “In view of the developments, the decision of the CDU-led Federal Government to end free citizen tests was apparently premature,”…
Hundreds of proceedings after demonstrations against Covid-19 rules
(GermanPo(GermanPolicy.com) – After demonstrations by opponents of the German Corona rules in Leipzig, police has initiated more than 600 administrative offense proceedings as well as 48 criminal cases. A police spokesman announced, that there will be investigations on the grounds of of insult, assault, assault…
Booster vaccinations: conference of health ministers
(GermanPolicy.com) – At a conference of the Federal and State Governments in Lindau, health ministers agreed on a uniform procedure with regard to booster vaccinations against the Coronavirus. Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) announced that he agreed with his colleagues as well as medical…
Covid-19: Spahn calls for a booster summit
(GermanPolicy.com) – Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) would like a summit between representatives of the Federal Government and the Federal States to coordinate booster vaccinations against Covid-19. To break the fourth Covid-19 wave, booster vaccinations are essential, Spahn said. The vaccinations carried out by…
Vaccination ordinance provides for the right to booster vaccination
(GermanPolicy.com) – In principle, all citizens are entitled to a booster vaccination against the Coronavirus, the Federal Ministry of Health has confirmed. For certain groups such as people over the age of 60, medical staff or people with an immune deficiency, a booster vaccination is…
Health system: Lauterbach sees “construction sites”
(GermanPolicy.com) – Health expert Karl Lauterbach (SPD) has identified “huge construction sites” in the health care system. During the Corona crisis “in the last two years a lot has been left behind,” he explained. The balance sheets of the hospitals showed deficits, university hospitals in…
Statutory health association calls for reforms in care
(GermanPolicy.com) – The vice-chairman of the Central Association of Statutory Health Insurance (GKV) has called for reforms in statutory care insurance. According to media reports, Gernot Kiefer said that the implementation of solutions to the problems at hand cannot be postponed. Sufficiently qualified and better…
High numbers of Covid cases in hospitals
(GermanPolicy.com) – The number of Covid-19 cases is increasing. This also increases concerns about the clinics being overloaded. The managing director of the German Hospital Society, Gass, warned that, in the next two weeks, another 3,000 Covid-19 patients will have to be treated in intensive…
Braun (CDU) criticizes renaming of the ‘epidemic situation’
(GermanPolicy.com) – The Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery, Braun (CDU), has criticized the end of the ‘epidemic situation’ that the traffic-light parties are planning. In certain Federal States, not only did the number of cases increase, but also the hospitalization rate, which has…
Towards a transitional regulation against Covid-19
(GermanPolicy.com) – SPD parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag Mützenich has announced that there should be a uniform transitional regulation with regard to the Corona pandemic by March 20. The ‘epidemic situation of national scope’ is expected to expire despite an increase in the number…
