Of the President of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) sees the 2G rule as an opportunity to increase the vaccination rate in Germany. “A large part of the around 16 million people aged 12 and over who are still not vaccinated could be won over,” said RKI boss Lothar Wieler in an interview with the “Apotheken Umschau” on Thursday. “Those who do not get vaccinated would then increasingly have to decide whether they want to remain excluded from public life. Surely the unvaccinated cannot influence the lives of the vaccinated to such an extent as is currently the case. “
It depress him that so many people do not want to use the vaccinessaid the microbiology and veterinarian. “In Germany we definitely have a critical attitude towards vaccinations, which is also fueled by a lot of misinformation.” Five to ten percent currently reject the vaccination and are also hardly convincing. A slow and non-stringent implementation of the measures would have given reluctant people too much leeway, according to Wieler. He was by no means surprised by the course of the fourth wave, rather this corresponds to the RKI modeling from summer. “I don’t know why some people got the idea to suggest that the pandemic was over.”