People who have not been vaccinated could possibly come under increased economic pressure.

The reason for this are demands and considerations to make corona tests as an alternative to vaccinations chargeable in the future.

The Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder renewed his initiative on Tuesday.

"It's a question of fairness," says the CSU chairman on ZDF.

Now that there is enough vaccine available, the question arises why taxpayers should still bear the high test costs for those who did not want to be vaccinated in the future.

Merkel: "indirect compulsory vaccination"

Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) also said on Tuesday that in the medium term one would have to think about changes to the previously free rapid tests.

Chancellor Angela Merkel restricted this at least insofar as she said that measures "that are such an indirect vaccination requirement" must be carefully considered because, for example, children cannot yet be vaccinated and because some people have good reasons not to vaccinate allow.

So far, the state has paid for the so-called citizen tests - antigen tests, the results of which are available after a few minutes.

In many places, the result is currently made dependent on who is allowed to attend an event or take advantage of other offers.

When the incidences were still significantly higher, even visits to the hairdresser and a number of shops were tied to a negative test result.

The federal government had initially calculated costs of up to half a billion euros for citizen tests.

However, this sum was exceeded in the spring.

The debate about compulsory vaccination for certain occupational groups also continues. The President of the World Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, renewed his call for medical personnel to be vaccinated. On Wednesday, on Deutschlandfunk, Montgomery criticized the federal government's rejection of such an obligation for certain professional groups such as medical staff: "The issue has not been cleared at all." Montgomery.

The German Hospital Society (DKG) contradicted this.

According to her, the vaccination rate in the clinics is very high.

"Based on individual responses of 90 percent and more, we are assuming very high vaccination rates in the hospitals," said a DKG spokesman for the newspapers of the Funke media group.

“Therefore, the debate about mandatory vaccination for hospitals is hardly relevant.

There should be no other area in which employees protect themselves and their surroundings as well as in the hospital. "

Vaccination required in England

Meanwhile, the British Parliament has approved a compulsory corona vaccination for nurses in homes in England.

From October onwards, home workers must have two vaccinations against the virus.

However, several members of Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Conservative Party voted against the plan on Tuesday evening.

They criticized the government for not publishing an impact assessment before the vote.

Health Secretary Helen Whately said the government was working on it.

Previously, France had already made vaccination compulsory for health care workers from September onwards.

The corona crisis hit nursing and old people's homes in Great Britain, especially at the beginning.

There, almost 30,000 more residents died in the first months of the pandemic than in the same period of the previous year.

Secretary of State Whately announced guidelines.

She said home operators could offer non-vaccinated workers alternative jobs.

However, there are only a few jobs in the industry in which one can work without vaccination.

Nursing and medical associations had warned against compulsory vaccination.

This would pose further problems for the industry, which is already under great pressure.

Vaccination is only mandatory in England.

The governments of the rest of the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, which are responsible for their own health policies, have no plans to do so.