Merkel warns: Those who have been tested for coronavirus and those who have been vaccinated should not be equated

The chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Monday not to equate those who have been tested with those who have been vaccinated against coronavirus in today’s federation-state debate on the return of freedoms.

Merkel stressed at today’s online meeting of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) presidency, which took place before the conference of the federal government and the governments of the states, that “what applies to those who have been vaccinated cannot apply to those who have been diagnosed test The safety of the vaccine is much stronger than the safety provided by the diagnostic tests for him coronavirus. “Therefore they can not be equated,” the chancellor said, according to participants in the meeting. Excerpts from the CDU presidency were first published in the Bild newspaper, according to the German News Agency (dpa) and as relayed by the Athenian News Agency.

According to participants in the online discussions of the CDU presidency, the party president Armin Lasset spoke at the beginning “about the positive development of vaccinations”.

According to “Bild”, the Minister of Health Jens Span stressed in the internet meeting of the presidency of his party that “the rules for keeping the distance and the obligatory mask should be maintained until the immunity of the herd is achieved. “Promoting vaccination among refugees and migrants is also a big challenge.”

The Federal Government’s Immigration Officer, Anete Widmann-Mauts, spoke in detail about “the particular problems that arise in the approach of refugees and immigrants to the coronavirus issue, because it does not work in conventional ways,” she said.

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