The Government of Angela Merkel also plans to make the vaccination mandatory for the staff of hospitals and retirement homes.
Le Monde with AFP
Faced with an intense fourth wave of a pandemic that has already killed since the beginning of 2020 more than five million people around the world, and at lively hospitals, Germany will generalize specific restrictions for non-vaccinated , as their exclusion from certain public places, in order to combat the outbreak of CVIV-19 infections, announced Thursday, November 18 the outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel after a crisis meeting.
The so-called “2G” rule, which only allows vaccinations (“geimbe”) and cure (“Genesene”) to access public places such as restaurants or concert halls will be applied as soon as the threshold of Hospitalization exceeds three COVID patients per 100,000 inhabitants, she said, what is the case in the majority of the regions of the country.
“We must protect the most vulnerable”
Germany also plans to make VACCINATION against CVIV-19 for hospital staff and retirement homes, announced Thursday the government and the heads of the regions, after an emergency meeting. “We need to protect the most vulnerable groups,” they stated in a joint statement, adding that “it is necessary for the staff” hospitals, care or retirement homes “to be vaccinated against Coronavirus “. The Government of Angela Merkel had so far refused to consider the obligation of vaccination for certain occupational categories.
“We will be confronted with difficult weeks,” warned Saturday Angela Merkel, responsible for sending the day-to-day business before retiring politics.