A narrow majority of Germans are in favor of lifting all corona measures for fully vaccinated people from September. This was the result of a survey by the polling institute YouGov. In the survey published on Tuesday, 51 percent were in favor, 39 percent rejected it. Eleven percent did not provide any information. In the age group between 18 and 33 years, only 33 percent were in favor of lifting the corona requirements for vaccinated people from September. In all other age groups, approval was just over 50 percent. So far, a little more than 38 percent of people in Germany have been fully vaccinated.
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) had previously spoken out in favor of lifting the corona restrictions as soon as all people in Germany have received a vaccination offer.
“This is to be expected in the course of August,” Maas told the German press agency and the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
"If everyone in Germany has a vaccination offer, there is no longer any legal or political justification for any restriction."
The chairman of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, had made a similar statement.
"By September at the latest, a vaccination offer will be available for everyone who wants to be vaccinated, then almost all corona measures will have to go," he told the Bild newspaper.
"Everyone can then still decide individually whether he or she wants to keep wearing the mask - but then it should no longer be an obligation."
Survey: New measures expected in autumn
Only yesterday, however, figures were published according to which, despite the advancing vaccination campaign, a large majority of Germans are expecting increasing numbers of corona infections and new government restrictions in the autumn.
The polling institute YouGov also carried out this survey.
According to this, 76 percent said that they expected an increase in the number of infections;
74 percent assumed that measures against the pandemic would be tightened in the autumn.
Only 16 percent said there would be no new restrictions.
Ten percent gave no information.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had promised that all people in Germany should receive a vaccination offer by September 21st.
Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) now assumes that this may be the case as early as the end of July.
Maas had already campaigned for the lifting of restrictions on vaccinated people in January shortly after the start of the vaccination campaign.
"Vaccinated people should be able to exercise their basic rights again," the SPD politician told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag at the time.
He had to take a lot of criticism for this because it was not yet clear at the time whether people who had been vaccinated could spread the virus further.
Union: repeal "constitutionally mandatory"
The legal policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, Jan-Marco Luczak, also made a statement similar to Maas. "The lifting of protective measures is constitutionally mandatory," he told the newspaper Die Welt (Tuesday). The previous measures were correct and necessary to get the pandemic under control. “If, however, harm to oneself and others is almost completely excluded from a scientific point of view, there is no longer any room for restrictions.” Interventions in people's basic rights require legitimation, which is lacking if there is no longer any risk of infection.
The deputy FDP chairman Wolfgang Kubicki is also on the lookout for an early lifting of the corona restrictions.
"At the latest as soon as all those willing to vaccinate have received a vaccination, the measures must be lifted," said the Bundestag Vice President.
“The federal government says that this will be the case by the end of summer.
Anything else would mean continuing the restrictions on fundamental rights indefinitely. "
The Greens health politician Kordula Schulz-Asche spoke out against a general exemption from the restrictions.
The maintenance of the restrictions must be based on the current Corona situation, and in this context the delta variant is "worrying".