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Unvaccinated may face restrictions in Germany
    2021-07-26  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff has warned that restrictions for unvaccinated people may be necessary if case numbers reach new heights in the coming months.

But Helge Braun said in an interview with the newspaper Bild am Sonntag that he doesn’t expect another coronavirus-related lockdown in Germany.

Braun said that unvaccinated people may be barred from entering venues like restaurants, movie theaters and stadiums “because the residual risk is too high.”

Braun said getting vaccinated is important to protect against severe disease and because “vaccinated people will definitely have more freedoms than unvaccinated people.”

Braun said that such policies would be legal because “the state has the responsibility to protect the health of its citizens.”

Germany’s vaccine efforts have slowed in recent weeks and that has led to discussions about how to encourage those who haven’t yet received a vaccine to do so. More than 60 percent of the German population has received at least one dose while over 49 percent are fully vaccinated.

Braun told Bild am Sonntag weekly that he fears the number of new coronavirus cases will soar in the next few weeks and could hit 100,000 a day by the end of September, causing big problems for many businesses.

After more than two months of steady decline, cases have been rising in Europe’s biggest economy since early July, due mainly to the spread of the more infectious Delta variant.

Braun said cases were increasing by 60 percent per week, even though nearly half the population has been fully vaccinated.

“If the Delta variant were to continue to spread at this rate and we don’t counter it with a very high vaccination rate or change in behavior, we would have an incidence of 850 (per 100,000 people) in just nine weeks,” he said.

“That would equate to 100,000 new infections a day,” he said, adding the effect would be huge as so many people would have to quarantine.

(SD-Agencies)

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