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The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has again called for a debate about compulsory vaccination for care workers in old people's and nursing homes.
"We have to consider whether we should increase the protection for the particularly highly sensitive areas, that is the old people's and nursing homes," said Söder on Tuesday morning in the ZDF "Morgenmagazin".
If you hear and read that few nurses want to be vaccinated there, you have to discuss it.
"The German Ethics Council should deal with it," said Söder.
The CSU boss had previously told the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” that there was “too high a refusal to vaccinate among nursing staff in old people's and nursing homes”.
It would therefore be "good if the German Ethics Council made suggestions as to whether and for which groups compulsory vaccination would be conceivable".
After all, it is a matter of life and death in nursing homes.
In the hospitals the situation seems to be much better, in the care sector more difficult, says Söder with reference to experiences in Bavaria.
"I think that has something to do with this incredible fake news," he said.
That is why on the one hand there is a need for education, but also a commandment about how important a vaccination is.
In the case of caregivers in particular, it is not just about self-protection, but about protecting one's neighbor.
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In some areas, such as measles, there is already a compulsory vaccination.
"If you compare measles with corona, the danger and importance of corona is of course much higher," he said.
That is why there is now a need for a social debate and a parallel vaccination campaign to increase the general willingness to vaccinate.
"There will and should not be a general compulsory vaccination," emphasized Söder.
Heil rejects mandatory vaccination for nurses
Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) rejected compulsory vaccination for nursing staff.
"At the moment speculating about mandatory vaccinations is forbidden," said Heil RTL / ntv.
"I think the path we have taken is the right one, namely that we do not introduce any compulsory vaccinations." Instead, one should advertise more to nurses and doctors.
“Above all, I want vaccination acceptance.
Now it is a matter of explaining that vaccination is important. "
Söder also reiterated his call for a “national pharmaceutical alliance” to increase the production of corona vaccines.
“The problem is not the cans ordered, but the production,” he said on ZDF.
Germany is a pharmaceutical country.
It must be possible to mobilize more production facilities that could manufacture vaccines for Germany and Europe.