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Berlin (dpa) - Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) has given people who have been completely vaccinated against Corona hope for more freedom - but many do not believe in a vaccination until the end of the summer.

According to a survey by the YouGov opinion research institute on behalf of the German Press Agency, only just under a quarter (23 percent) expect that the goal of offering every person willing to vaccinate a corona vaccination by September 21 will be met.

On the other hand, 62 percent do not expect it.

15 percent did not provide any information.

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) has announced several times that she wants to make an offer to all adults in Germany who want to be vaccinated by September 21st.

Confidence in this promise has fallen: In a comparable YouGov survey at the beginning of February, 26 percent still believed that the goal would be achieved.

Even then, 57 percent did not trust the promise.

The corona vaccinations have started slowly in Germany compared to countries like Great Britain or the USA.

After Easter, they will also start in 35,000 general practitioners' practices nationwide and be gradually ramped up there.

Later, specialists, private doctors and company doctors will also vaccinate.

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According to the Federal Ministry of Health on Saturday, a good twelve percent of Germans have been vaccinated at least once - more than ten million citizens.

4.3 million people have already received the second vaccination.

Minister Spahn said on Sunday: "Anyone who has been fully vaccinated can be treated like someone who has a negative test result while traveling or shopping."

Spahn referred to an evaluation of the latest scientific findings by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), which was also sent to the federal states.

Meanwhile, the head of the Association of Towns and Municipalities wants more uniformity between the federal states in the fight against pandemics, despite regionally adapted measures.

Otherwise, people would hardly be able to understand the different regulations, said chief executive Gerd Landsberg to the newspapers of the Funke media group (Monday).

A federal law for uniform measures, as proposed by Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU), would, from Landsberg's point of view, come too late for the third wave because of the "experience" long-term legislative process.

“In addition, federalism has proven itself in the pandemic.

Different regulations in different regions are justified if the incidence figures allow this approach. "

Seehofer had told the “Welt am Sonntag” that such a law could be passed in the shortest possible time.

A government spokesman had also spoken of considerations on uniform requirements to contain the third corona wave - if the country's approach was not sufficient.

Landsberg said: “The federal and state governments could agree on stricter common rules at short notice.

However, that would presuppose that everyone really adheres to the agreements made ».

The infection process is dramatic.

"The emergency brake must now be implemented consistently."

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The FDP stood behind the Union's push for uniform corona rules by federal law - and held up the CDU / CSU to have taken up proposals from the liberals.

The deputy chairman of the FDP in the Bundestag, Stephan Thomae, told the German Press Agency in Berlin: "The FDP parliamentary group had introduced appropriate legislative proposals in the Bundestag."

The fact that “more and more voices from the Union understand this necessity is a belated insight.

But better late than never".

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