German would-be govt stops short of vaccine obligation for care homes

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The parties holding talks on forming Germany’s next government have agreed to tighten care home’s protection from the coronavirus by introducing a daily test requirement for visitors and staff, but stopped short of making vaccination compulsory, reports Reuters.

Senior Greens legislator Kathrin Goering-Eckardt said she personally would have wanted to discuss compuslory vaccination, highlighting a dividing line within the would-be government between her party and the Social Democrats on the one hand, and the more libertarian-leaning Free Democratas on the other.

“There is no agreemnet on a vaccine obligation,” she told reporters. “I personally think we should discuss this.”

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