Unvaccinated Germans will no longer be allowed into “restaurants, pubs, cinemas, gyms, cultural events, and non-essential shops,” according to multiple reports. German parliament, meanwhile, is considering a vaccine mandate for all Germans beginning early next year, potentially joining Austria in making the experimental COVID jabs compulsory for the entire population.
Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the sweeping new restrictions on Thursday, saying unvaccinated people will be barred from many public places unless they have recently recovered from COVID.
“Culture and leisure nationwide will be open only to those who have been vaccinated or recovered,” Merkel said.
“We have understood that the situation is very serious and that we want to take further measures in addition to those already taken,” she added.
Merkel also said a nationwide vaccination mandate will be imposed from February 2022, if approved by parliament. Several other European countries are imposing draconian vaccine mandates, including Austria and Greece. The European Union also announced on Thursday that it is mulling a bloc-wide mandate, in a move some are calling the “Chinafication of Europe”.
Merkel noted in her remarks that vaccinated people will lose their vaccination status nine months after getting their last shot, implying that people will be forced to take booster shots too.
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