Merkel's husband calls COVID-19 unvaccinated Germans 'lazy'

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FRANKFURT: Chancellor Angela Merkel's husband on Tuesday (Nov 23) accused unvaccinated Germans of 'laziness', as calls grew louder for the country to consider mandatory coronavirus jabs to combat a

Germany's COVID-19 resurgence has in part been blamed on its relatively low vaccination rate compared with Western European nations like France, Italy or Spain, with just 68 per cent of the population fully jabbed.

"The other group are people who follow a personal conviction, a kind of ideological reaction to what they consider a vaccination dictatorship," Sauer said, a cohort he said also included some doctors and scientists.Sauer's comments came a day after Merkel warned that Germany was not doing enough to contain the"highly dramatic" fourth wave of the pandemic.

Germany last week announced tougher COVID-19 curbs, including requiring people to prove they are vaccinated, cured or have recently tested negative for the virus before they can travel on public transport or go into the workplace. Society will"pay an ever higher price for a small part of the population" rejecting the vaccine offer, they warned, stressing that mandatory jabs were necessary"to give us back our freedoms".

 

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