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While the pace of vaccination has slowed a lot in recent weeks, the German government and the regions decided on Tuesday to end, from October 11, free testing for Covid-19.
Germany will end free Covid-19 screening tests from October in the hope of relaunching a vaccination campaign that is slipping.
From that date, people who do not want to be vaccinated will have to pay for a test proving that they are negative for Covid-19 in order to be able to go to the cinema, to the restaurant or to the gym. Proof of vaccination or a negative test will also be required as soon as the infection threshold reaches 35 cases per 100,000 inhabitants over seven days.
The free tests will however remain in force for people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons, for pregnant women or children, according to the text adopted Tuesday August 10 during the meeting between Angela Merkel and the sixteen heads of regional governments. .
“Responsibility of all”
As Germany now has sufficient doses of vaccines for all citizens, “we will put an end to free tests from October 11,” said the Chancellor. And she said she hoped that “vaccination rates will rise again sharply”, deeming it “everyone’s responsibility” to encourage vaccination.
After vaccinating more than a million people a day at the height of the campaign, the pace has drastically slowed down in Europe’s largest economy during the summer holidays.
Some 52 million people have received at least one dose in the country, or 62.5% of the population, according to the latest data from the Robert Koch Institute for Public Health Surveillance.
Debate
For several weeks, the debate has swelled in the country on how to convince the reluctant without making vaccination mandatory, while infections and fears of a fourth wave of the pandemic are increasing.
Angela Merkel has more than once reaffirmed her opposition to an obligation to be vaccinated general or partial, as in France or Greece for nursing staff in particular.
But the idea of paid tests has been criticized, especially by the far right, as an indirect way of forcing reluctant people to get vaccinated to avoid being restricted in their freedom of movement.
Angela Merkel replied on Tuesday that immunized people could not be asked to continue to be restricted because part of the population refuses the vaccine. “We must also think of those who work in the hospital and it is excluded to overload the health system”, she insisted.
With AFP
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