Monday, December 6th, 2021
“Limited time out” for the New Year
Weil is considering restrictions on vaccinated people
Family visits during the Christmas season could cause the high corona incidence values to rise even further. Because of the increased risk of infection, Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Weil is considering contact restrictions at the turn of the year – which would also affect vaccinated people.
Lower Saxony’s head of government Stephan Weil has spoken out in favor of contact restrictions also for vaccinated people in the period after Christmas. The “numerous family contacts” would “after all experience also cause a number of infections”, he told the daily newspaper “Welt”. “So it is worth considering whether the associated infection dynamics should not be alleviated by taking a limited break.”
He argued that “ten percent of infections come from vaccinated people.” That would not speak against the effectiveness of the vaccine, but it shows “that we as a society as a whole still carry a viral load that is far too high.”
According to Weil, the prime ministers want to meet with the Federal Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz next Thursday to discuss how to fight the pandemic. “Then we will of course have to think about how things should go after Christmas,” said Weil. “In the end, it depends on the development of the infection process and the situation in the intensive care units.”
Top representatives from the federal and state governments decided last week, among other things, that uniform nationwide contact restrictions will be introduced for people who have neither been vaccinated against Corona nor have recovered from Corona disease. Meetings are then limited to your own household and a maximum of two people from another household, with the exception of children up to 14 years of age.