Germany: Next Chancellor Hubeck in favor of lockdown for the unvaccinated

Robert Hubeck, Germany’s next vice chancellor, today called for tougher restrictive measures in his country, which suffers from a record number of new coronavirus infections, ahead of federal and state health consultations.

“What needs to be done is absolutely clear: contacts should be reduced” and the “vaccinated-recovered” rule should be applied in a nationally binding manner to all public bodies “, with the exception of essential stores. said the co-chair of the Greens in a question posed to him by the public network ZDF.

“We will have to spend the winter with new uniform measures,” Habeck said, noting that the states already have a “set of options on the table” to respond to emergencies, such as not hosting Bundesliga football matches. full stages or cancel Christmas shopping.

“This is called, we have to say it out loud, a lockdown for the unvaccinated,” he added.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, as well as her successor, the Social Democrat Olaf Solz, and the leaders of the German states will discuss today the possible tightening of the restrictive measures in order to stop the sharp resurgence of COID 19.

Prior to that, politicians will be briefed this morning on their room for maneuver following the federal Constitutional Court’s expected ruling on curfews and school closures, which was mandated by a so-called emergency brake law. in spring.

These consultations via teleconference and following pressing requests from political officials will take place at a time when Europe’s largest economy is setting new daily daily record levels, which reached almost 80,000 last week.

The Robert Koch Institute reported nearly 46,000 new cases today, with a seven-day incidence rate falling slightly to 452.2 as Germany faces an impending hospital overload and the spread of the new Omicron coronavirus variant.

SOURCE: AMPE