{"id":246494,"date":"2021-12-03T07:47:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T07:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=246494"},"modified":"2021-12-04T07:49:11","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T07:49:11","slug":"germany-imposes-coronavirus-lockdown-for-unvaccinated-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=246494","title":{"rendered":"Germany imposes coronavirus lockdown for unvaccinated people"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Laurenz Gehrke \u2013 Politico Dec 2, 2021\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The German government and the leaders of the country\u2019s 16 states on Thursday imposed a lockdown on people who are not vaccinated against coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday we talked about an act of national solidarity,\u201d said outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel, adding that restrictions \u2014\u00a0including some lighter ones on the vaccinated \u2014\u00a0are required due to Germany\u2019s bad epidemiological situation. Referring to recently stabilizing infection rates, Merkel said the wave had slowed, but \u201cat too high a level\u201d to be complacent.<\/p>\n<p>Merkel also said that the government would look into how long people can be considered \u201cfully vaccinated\u201d given immunity wanes over time, \u201cas it is also discussed on the EU level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking alongside Merkel, her prospective successor as chancellor, Olaf Scholz, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/scholz-wants-mandatory-vaccination-for-germans-by-february\/\">doubled down on his belief<\/a> that mandatory vaccination should be required because not enough citizens have been vaccinated. In Germany, the vaccination rate stands at <a href=\"https:\/\/vaccinetracker.ecdc.europa.eu\/public\/extensions\/COVID-19\/vaccine-tracker.html#uptake-tab\">68.4 percent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTherefore we must now do this,\u201d Scholz said.<\/p>\n<p>As outlined in a draft <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-to-tighten-coronavirus-restrictions\/\">document<\/a> on Wednesday, private gatherings can now only involve a maximum of two unvaccinated individuals from one household while nonessential shops will be restricted to the vaccinated and those who have recovered from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/germany-imposes-coronavirus-lockdown-for-the-unvaccinated\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile Angela Merkerl\u2019s likely successor, Olaf Scholz has reiterated the need for mandatory vaccinations <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246496,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246494\/revisions\/246496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}