Tag: Health
Vaccinations to be compulsory in nursing professions
(GermanPolicy.com) – A vaccination obligation for employees in the healing and nursing professions should apply in the future with a view on the Covid-19 pandemic. This was announced by the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Hendrik Wüst (CDU). Hospital employees and integration assistance facilities will also…
Merkel supports free citizen tests
(GermanPolicy.com) – The Federal Government has confirmed that it will support the reintroduction of free corona tests which the SPD, FDP and Greens want to implement. With a view to the currently rampant fourth wave of infections, this is the right step, which Chancellor Merkel…
New nationwide Corona rules planned
(GermanPolicy.com) – The traffic light parties – SPD, Greens and FDP – have presented a draft law. According to the draft, a distance requirement, a mask requirement and 3G should be introduced for workplaces and events. The regulations – valid until March 19 – are…
Demand for vaccines growing in Saxony and Baden-Württemberg
(GermanPolicy.com) – The willingness to vaccinate against the Coronavirus is growing in some Federal States. The mobile vaccination teams in Saxony are at the limit. In Baden-Württemberg, too, the demand for vaccinations has grown in the last four weeks.
Corona rules strengthened in several German states
(GermanPolicy.com) – Several Federal States have rendered the measures against Corona infections stricter. In Bavaria, the protective measures against the Coronavirus are being strengthened. From now on, the 3G rule will apply in the workplace. Unvaccinated people who have not had Corona disease must be…
FDP against compulsory vaccination
(GermanPolicy.com) – Volker Wissing (FDP) has spoken out against mandatory vaccination. “There will be no compulsory vaccination with the FDP, neither for the entire population nor in certain professions. I consider that debate a dangerous one,” said the FDP general secretary, according to a media…
Drosten for more responsibility in journalism
(GermanPolicy.com) – At the ceremony to award the Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Prize, virologist Christian Drosten called on journalism to undertake a necessary “reflection” with regard to the Corona pandemic. There is an immense responsibility with the media, because they reflect the reality of the people…
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…
