The National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina calls for mandatory vaccination in certain professions as well as disclosure of the vaccination status of employees in companies.

The corona pandemic “gained strong momentum again with the fourth wave”, according to a new statement by the scientists, about which “Spiegel” reported in advance on Wednesday.

In the occupational health and safety ordinance, "an appropriate regulation for disclosing the vaccination status" is needed, the statement said.

So far, for reasons of data protection law, most employers have not been allowed to ask employees whether they are vaccinated.

Reker: "2G last step before a vaccination light"

The Academy calls for the 2-G rule, according to which only vaccinated or convalescent people are allowed access to events, should be given “a greater scope of validity”.

At the same time, the scientists want “vaccination requirements for multipliers”.

This is not just about nursing staff.

According to Leopoldina, teaching staff or other professional groups with a lot of contact with other people should also be vaccinated.

The coronavirus will "establish itself as an endemic virus in the long term, i.e. circulate permanently in parts of the population," the experts expect. Even after the pandemic subsided, people would become infected, which could lead to severe courses and deaths. That is why the Leopoldina calls for the research and development of antiviral drugs to treat a Covid disease that has already broken out.

The mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker, meanwhile did not rule out compulsory vaccinations.

With a view to the start of the carnival, she assured that the city of Cologne would celebrate as safely as possible on November 11th.

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"But it is clear to all of us that there can be no absolute security," Reker told the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" (Tuesday).

Due to the sharp increase in the incidence of corona, the urban crisis team decided on a nationwide 2G rule for the start of the session on Monday.

Reker himself can independently from 11.11.

also introduce “2G plus”, a rule according to which vaccinated and convalescent people are only allowed to attend events with negative test results.

"Then, from my point of view, the free citizen tests would have to be reintroduced."

The independent mayor described 2G as the “last step before mandatory vaccination”.

Such a general duty will probably have to come if more people decide to vaccinate.

“I'm afraid that if we don't have a real boost in the vaccination quota by Christmas, we will have to discuss compulsory vaccination for everyone.

It can't go on like this with the restrictions in our life. "

Intensive care physician Christian Karagiannidis called for 2G to be introduced across the board in the coming week at the latest in order to keep the corona numbers under control.

"This has brought a lot in the European area," said the President of the German Society for Internal Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DGIIN) to the Berlin "Tagesspiegel".

It will not be long before the first corona intensive care patients have to be relocated from the severely affected federal states of Saxony and Thuringia because there is no more space, according to Karagiannidis.

Even 2G and booster vaccinations in pharmacies, as requested by him, would no longer affect the number of corona intensive care patients nationwide in the short term.

"Because even if 2G brakes, it won't be an emergency stop."