Chancellor Olaf Scholz regretted the failure of a general corona vaccination requirement, but sees no basis for a renewed attempt.

The statement by Parliament was very clear, said the SPD politician on Thursday evening in Berlin.

“There is no legislative majority in the Bundestag for compulsory vaccination.

This is the reality that we must now take as a starting point for our actions.”

Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) and his Bavarian colleague Klaus Holetschek (CSU) had previously spoken out in favor of making a new attempt at general vaccination.

He would continue to try "to achieve compulsory vaccination by autumn in order to avoid unnecessary victims in the fall," Lauterbach confirmed in the "Bild" newspaper (Friday).

"As a doctor and as a politician, I never give up when it comes to other people's lives."

Lauterbach said on Deutschlandfunk on Friday morning that you should never refuse to talk.

Nevertheless, he shares "Olaf Scholz's assessment that the probability that we will achieve anything through talks is very low".

The Parliamentary Managing Director of the Greens, Till Steffen, said on ZDF that another vote was “only possible on the basis of a decision by the federal government”.

It hadn't existed.

The FDP, which had also ensured that the general protective measures were abolished, had pushed through the voting without party discipline.

The compromise draft supported by Scholz by several MPs for compulsory vaccination from the age of 60 then clearly failed, as did all other applications.

The current head of the Prime Ministers' Conference, North Rhine-Westphalia's Hendrik Wüst (CDU), is also skeptical that the Bundestag will make a second attempt at compulsory vaccination.

He believes that won't happen, said Wüst in the evening after a country meeting with Scholz.

Too late anyway?

From the point of view of the Secretary General of the German Immunological Society Carsten Watzl, a new parliamentary attempt would come too late anyway.

"A vaccination that would only be decided in autumn would hardly have an acute effect on the upcoming wave, and you would have to take other countermeasures," he told the "Augsburger Allgemeine" (Friday).

"The worst that could happen was no agreement at all."

And now?

"Germany will be in a bad position for next fall," predicted the chairman of the World Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, in the same newspaper.

If many more do not get vaccinated, “we will talk and argue about lockdown and contact restrictions again next autumn and winter”.

New vaccination campaign announced

Chancellor Scholz promised: "We will do everything we can to convince even more citizens to get vaccinated." It is now important to concentrate on the options for action that are there.

There are a number of approaches that have been discussed and formed part of the proposals.

It's about getting to people.

Here you have to see "whether we can still use a bit of this part for the future".

Part of the approaches that have now not been implemented in the Bundestag was, among other things, an obligation to provide vaccination advice.

One day after the Bundestag vote, Lauterbach announced a new vaccination campaign.

It should be aimed at previously unvaccinated people who are “in principle ready”.

You know that there is such a group, especially among people with a migration background, he said on Deutschlandfunk.

"They have to be achieved, we mustn't give up.

By the way, we also have to advertise more creatively.

We're preparing something right now." At the moment, the vaccination campaign has come to a virtual standstill.

The weekly average is a good 36,000 vaccinations a day, at the beginning of the campaign it was sometimes over a million.

According to Lauterbach, an adjustment to the Infection Protection Act is also necessary in the fall.

The nationwide seven-day incidence has meanwhile continued to fall.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Friday morning as 1181.2.

A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 1586.4.

The health authorities in Germany reported 175,263 new infections to the RKI within one day.

This is evident from numbers that reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5 a.m.

When considering the values, it must be taken into account that individual countries do not report data on every day of the week.