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Berlin (dpa) - Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble has spoken out against preferential treatment for people who have been vaccinated against the corona virus.
“Preferential treatment for vaccinated people runs the risk of dividing society.
We must not drive a wedge between those who have already been vaccinated and those who have not been vaccinated, ”said the CDU politician of the“ Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung ”(Thursday).
The pace of vaccine development is "absolutely impressive", so there is hope that production will go even faster than expected.
"In any case, now is not the right time to argue about privileges for the first vaccinated, we still know too little about the duration and extent of the vaccination effect."
The ex-Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz, who is running for the CDU chairmanship, wants to give corona-vaccinated people more freedom.
"Basic rights are individual rights, but not collective rights, which the state withdraws from everyone if necessary and only granted back to everyone at the same time if the situation allows it again," Merz told the newspapers of the Funke media group (Thursday).
"It is therefore not possible to withhold basic rights across the board from an ever-increasing population group of vaccinated, healthy and convalescents, because an ever-smaller group is still at risk from the virus."
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Granting more freedom rights to people who no longer endanger themselves or others is therefore not a form of discrimination.
That goes either through the proof of a vaccination or a negative corona test, said Merz.
A de facto vaccination requirement is also excluded.
Norbert Röttgen, who is also running for the CDU chairmanship, told the “Welt” (Thursday): “Of course you have to draw conclusions if someone can no longer endanger others.
When the practical questions have been resolved and there is no longer any objective reason for the restrictions, they must be lifted. "
It is currently unclear to what extent a corona vaccination not only protects against the disease itself, but also other people from infection due to the lack of risk of infection by vaccinated people.
The vaccine manufacturer Biontech does not expect research results on this until February.
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The constitutional lawyer Christoph Möllers told the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" that, in his opinion, privileges for vaccinated persons could be prevented for a transitional period by a law of the Bundestag.
For a few months, in his opinion, there is scope for the legislature to supplement the anti-discrimination law.
The former President of the Federal Constitutional Court, Hans-Jürgen Papier, on the other hand, recently said the "Bild": "As soon as it is certain that there is no longer any risk of infection from vaccinated people, there is no constitutional legitimacy to further restrict those affected in their basic rights."
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