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The epidemiologist Hajo Zeeb from Bremen welcomes the progress in the speed of vaccination, but warns against concentrating too much on the goal of so-called herd immunity in the corona crisis. It was an illusion to believe that the virus would not spread further if a certain percentage of the German population was vaccinated, he told the Evangelical Press Service (epd). With the currently prevailing mutation B.1.1.7, this value is calculated to be around 75 to 80 percent. Even if this value were reached, further factors of uncertainty would remain.
This includes, for example, the situation in other countries, the question of who is actually immune for how long and which mutations still appear, explained Zeeb. "We have to live with the fact that we can be confronted with corona outbreaks again and again and that masks and keeping our distance will accompany us for longer."
The anti-Semitism commissioner of the federal government has asked cities and municipalities to prohibit the wearing of a yellow star during demonstrations.
"If people attach so-called Jewish stars to demonstrations and thus make comparisons that relativize the Holocaust, the possibilities of regulatory law should be used," said Felix Klein of the "Tagesspiegel".
At rallies against the Corona measures, participants had repeatedly worn a yellow star with the inscription "unvaccinated", thus equating their situation with the persecution of Jews during the Nazi era.
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The government commissioner referred to the city of Munich, which had banned the wearing of a yellow star in the requirements for the rallies.
"I hope that other cities will follow Munich's example," Klein told the newspaper.
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