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Berlin (dpa) - The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has again called for a debate about mandatory vaccination for nursing staff 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 "morning magazine".
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.
Previously, the CSU boss had already expressed himself accordingly in the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" (Tuesday).
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 be and should not be a general compulsory vaccination," emphasized Söder.
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.