Tag: Health
Covid-19: back to normal in most parts of Germany
(GermanPolicy.com) – According to the leader of the Liberal parliamentary group in the Bundestag, the FDP supports a “return to normality” through the infection protection law to be passed next week by the Bundestag, followed by the Bundesrat. “With the agreement on the changes to…
Lauterbach: Covid situation still critical
(GermanPolicy.com) – Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) warned on Friday against underestimating the current situation in view of the Corona pandemic. The pandemic is not over, and in terms of the number of cases, the situation is “objectively much worse than the atmosphere”…
Wiese: vaccination to be enforced as mandatory
(GermanPolicy.com) – On Wednesday, the German Bundestag debated various group proposals for compulsory vaccination against the coronavirus. In the coming weeks, a model for and an application against a general obligation to vaccinate are to be voted on, as well as a regulation for people…
Caritas President: vaccination compulsory from the age of five or 50
(GermanPolicy.com) – The President of Caritas sees a vaccination requirement for residents over the age of 18 as insufficiently justified. The vaccination approval applies to people from the age of five, said Welskop-Deffaa. However, one could also assume the risk to groups, in which case…
Vaccination register unnecessary, Lauterbach
(GermanPolicy.com) – Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach considers a vaccination register unnecessary. The introduction of such a database would take too long to help prevent a new wave in autumn this year. Instead, they want to act quickly and focus on a general obligation to…
Lauterbach: current corona measures are to be maintained
(GermanPolicy.com) – The measures against the corona pandemic should be maintained and not tightened. Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach is committed to this: “An easing would be fatal. We would pour oil on the fire and accelerate the wave.” He justified this by saying that…
German parliaments decide on shorter quarantines
(GermanPolicy.com) – Bundestag and Bundesrat have decided on shortened quarantine rules for infected people and people who have been in contact with people infected with Covid 19. Instead of 14 days, one now only has to go into isolation for a period of ten days….
PCR tests are restricted to certain groups
(GermanPolicy.com) – The number of new corona infections is currently increasing, mainly due to the omicron variant. The state health ministers have therefore decided that PCR tests should be limited to the staff of hospitals, medical practices and nursing facilities. In addition, they should continue…
Hospitals at the breaking point
(GermanPolicy.com) – The medical association Marburger Bund sees German hospitals at their breaking point. “By the beginning of February at the latest, it will be very cramped in hospitals across Germany,” criticized chairwoman Susanne Johna, according to a media report. This is due to the…
Ministry of Health: ‘recovered’ status still at three months
(GermanPolicy.com) – The Federal Ministry of Health does not want to change the validity of the convalescent status to three months. The status was recently reduced to three months, enough to allow EU citizens to be treated like unvaccinated, three months after becoming infected. As…
Biontech begins study for drug against Omicron
(GermanPolicy.com) – BioNTech and Pfizer have started a first clinical trial for a vaccine against the omicron variant of the coronavirus. 1,420 subjects aged 18 to 55 have agreed to take part in the study, which aims to ensure the safety, tolerability and effectiveness of…
Federal Government should prepare further protective measures, council
(GermanPolicy.com) – The Council of Experts, which the Federal Government has set up to provide technical support for the corona pandemic, has called on Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his ministers to prepare additional protective measures from now. It is to be feared that the hospitalization…
