The German Minister of Health said on Friday that people vaccinated against COVID will not have to close completely again and will enjoy more freedoms than people who have not been vaccinated in the event of another virus resurfacing.
“As long as there are no mutations that affect protection against vaccines … then being fully vaccinated means that no such restrictions will be necessary, necessary or legally appropriate that we saw last winter,” Jens Spahn told reporters in Berlin.
Germany currently has a very low number of infections and has relaxed most of the virus’s limits, but concerns are growing about the spread of the more contagious Delta variant and the likelihood that cases will escalate again due to trips to the US. summer.
Spahn reiterated requests for the Germans to step in to prevent a fourth wave of pandemic this fall.
“The more people get vaccinated this summer, the better the fall will be,” Spahn said.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff, Helge Braun, said earlier on Friday that scientists agree that fully vaccinated people “are not really at risk or pose a danger to the rest.”
Therefore, vaccinated people should be allowed to do things like go shopping or attend concerts, Braun told MDR.
“For this large part of the population, many sectors that were completely closed in the past will not have to close again,” he said.
Unlike the beginning of Germany vaccine drive, there are now enough doses available for anyone who wants them, Health Minister Spahn said.
More than 55.1 percent of German adults, or 45.8 million people, have received at least one COVID shot. More than 37 percent are fully vaccinated, according to government data.
Recently, Germany also opened the BioNTech / Pfizer vaccine to children aged 12 to 15, although the country’s vaccine commission has officially recommended it only for adolescents with pre-existing conditions.
So far, about 400,000 more than 12-year-olds have received the first two-dose vaccine, Spahn said.
Germany reported 649 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours and 69 deaths on Friday, according to health institute Robert Koch, which accounted for just over 3.7 million cases since the start of the pandemic. and 91,000 dead.
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