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Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) wants to win over the churches and other religious communities for the advertising campaign for corona vaccinations.
Spahn referred on Thursday in Berlin to a campaign among others with footballers and actresses who - based on the term “influencer” in social networks - are supposed to advertise immunization as “vaccinators”.
He also wants to talk to the religious communities about whether and in what way they are willing to participate.
In principle, the churches were open-minded when it came to participating in the campaign. "If there should ever be a situation in which you have to motivate people, I am always happy to be there," said the chairman of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, the Evangelical Press Service (epd). This also applies to campaigns that advertise vaccination, said the Bavarian regional bishop.
According to the EKD, vaccination should also be a topic in “Word for Sunday” in “Das Erste” next Saturday on ARD.
The Mannheim pastor Ilka Sobottke wants to go into what vaccination has to do with charity.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference pointed out that its chairman, Limburg Bishop Georg Bätzing, can already be seen on posters for the vaccination campaign of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
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At the beginning of April, the President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, wrote in a joint letter with Vice-President Abraham Lehrer to the members of the Jewish community that saving life was the top priority in Judaism.
“In practice this now means: We get vaccinated!
Anyone with the opportunity to be vaccinated should set a good example, ”the letter says.
With the vaccination you not only protect yourself, but also those around you.
"If many people have been vaccinated, we can return to our normal everyday life step by step."
More than one in four vaccinated against corona
In the federal government's current "Sleeves up" campaign, celebrities give their reasons why they are ready for the corona vaccination. Among the volunteers are the actress Uschi Glas and the goalkeeping legend Sepp Maier. For weeks the word “vaccination” (instead of influencer) has been circulating on the internet for celebrities who advertise vaccination or make their immunization public.
More than every fourth person in Germany has now received at least one dose of vaccine against the coronavirus.
This emerges from the vaccination rate monitoring carried out by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Thursday (as of April 29, 1.30 p.m.).
25.9 percent of the approximately 83 million people in the country already received the first vaccination dose, 7.5 percent the full vaccination protection.
In addition, more than a million vaccine doses were injected on Wednesday - more than ever since the vaccination campaign began.
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The vaccination campaign in Germany started at the end of last year.
First it was the turn of people over 80, residents of old people's and nursing homes and medical staff.
Among other things, chronically ill people with an increased risk of a serious and fatal course are given preference to vaccinate.
According to a representative survey by the YouGov opinion research institute on behalf of the German Press Agency at the beginning of April, willingness to vaccinate among adults in Germany has fallen slightly since the beginning of the year. In mid-January, 67 percent said they wanted to be vaccinated. Now it's 57 percent plus those who are already vaccinated. 18 percent do not want to be vaccinated, 16 percent have not yet made a decision or did not provide any information.