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Germany on Friday (December 10th) passed a law requiring healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
The decision, which was voted in the Bundestag, requires that the staff of hospitals, doctors’ offices and care homes be fully vaccinated by mid-March 2022.
This decision follows similar decisions by France, Italy, Great Britain and Greece.
Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, who took office this week with the new government led by Olag Scholz, urged lawmakers from across the political spectrum to approve the measure for vulnerable groups.
“The pandemic is a mission for all of us, this is not a moment for party politics,” he told lawmakers before the vote.
He said he hopes Germany can break a fourth wave of infections by the end of the month so people can visit their families for the holidays.
“This is what we are fighting for,” he said, stressing that they should stop distributing the Delta variant as well as the Omicron variant.
Scholz who took power on Wednesday (December 8th) has come out strongly in favor of compulsory vaccination as the voluntary campaign was not successful with less than 70 percent of the population fully vaccinated.
About 21 percent of the population have received a booster dose.
If the government extends the ordinance to the general population it means following the example of neighboring Austria which is making vaccination mandatory from February 2022.
The previous government led by Angela Merkel has always ruled out compulsory vaccination.
Germany reached a record number of infections of 61,288 new cases in the last 24 hours on Friday (December 10th) as well as 484 deaths, according to the Robert Koch Institute.
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