Corona pandemic: + Schäuble for vaccination from the age of twelve +

Bundestag President Schäuble urges the STIKO to recommend vaccinations for children and adolescents from the age of twelve. SPD health expert Lauterbach assumes that the willingness to vaccinate will increase sharply in autumn.

Japan’s government plans to extend the state of emergency to three prefectures near the Olympic host city of Tokyo and the western Osaka prefecture by August 31. Economy Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura, who leads Japan’s pandemic response, suggested this before a panel of experts. He wanted to curb the sharp increase in coronavirus cases across the country by all means, the minister said. The Japanese capital reported a record 3865 infected on Thursday.

The Federal Association of Teachers for Vocational Training (BvLB) is calling for politicians to do more to ensure safe classroom teaching at the start of the new training year. “The vocational trainers finally want safe face-to-face teaching for students of vocational training and get out of the constant back and forth with alternating lessons,” says BvLB Federal Chairman Joachim Maiß of the editorial network Germany according to a preliminary report.

It could not be that politics repeatedly exclude schools and downplay the dangerous situation caused by the pandemic. Good education needs trust and reliability. Mobile air filters are needed in all classrooms, and a low-threshold vaccination offer must also be made available to the young people.

Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble urges the Standing Vaccination Commission to make a Corona vaccination recommendation for children and adolescents from the age of twelve. “If the European approval authority declares two corona vaccines to be safe and effective for children from the age of twelve, in my opinion there is a lot to suggest that the vaccine should also be used widely for this group,” said the CDU politician in an interview with the ” Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung “(NOZ). “It is not up to the President of the Bundestag to criticize the Standing Vaccination Commission. However, I may remind them of their responsibility.”

The corona risks are many times higher for children than those of a vaccination. As a grandfather, he personally wishes that his grandchildren could be vaccinated as soon as possible. In May, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved the Covid-19 vaccine from Biontech / Pfizer for children and adolescents from the age of twelve, and the approval for Moderna followed a few days ago. For Germany, however, the Stiko has so far only recommended vaccination for children and adolescents with certain previous illnesses who have an increased risk of a severe course. The reasons given by Stiko were the lack of data on the safety of the vaccine.

The German export industry has warned against a corona test obligation for long-distance drivers in intra-European goods traffic. “In principle, efforts to contain pandemics are understandable. National solo efforts are the wrong way to go, especially in freight transport, and would put additional stress on the already tense supply chains,” said the spokesman for the Federal Association of Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services (BGA), André Schwarz, who ” Rheinische Post “.

“The miles and days of traffic jams that we have already had to experience are still vividly remembered,” said the BGA spokesman. “What is needed are binding regulations across Europe that keep the borders for the movement of goods and goods open and at the same time guarantee the protection of health and security of supply.”

SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach assumes a sharply increasing readiness for corona vaccinations in autumn. “Corona behavior restrictions are essentially over in the fall, but not for the unvaccinated. The pressure on the unvaccinated will then increase automatically,” said Lauterbach of the “Rheinische Post”. But then there could no longer be equal treatment of vaccinated and tested people.

The delta variant ensures that the expressiveness of rapid tests is not yet precise enough to avoid chains of infection, argued Lauterbach. “There are too many false-negative results. Thus, unvaccinated people will not be able to return to normal.” Anyone who does not want or cannot be vaccinated must unfortunately expect to contract Covid in the next six months, Lauterbach said. “I am therefore assuming that the willingness to vaccinate will increase again sharply in autumn.”