Soaring COVID-19 rate prompts fresh fears in Germany
In a Forsa survey carried out for the health ministry and published Thursday, 65 per cent of unvaccinated respondents declared there was "no way" they would take a COVID-19 and 23 per cent were "reluctant".
At the same time, health professionals have reported a new influx of infected people into hospital, mostly unvaccinated.
Merkel defended the right not to be vaccinated in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper on Sunday but admitted at being "very saddened" that as many as three million Germans aged over 60 have still not had the jab.
Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, the likely next chancellor, said Sunday that Germany must do what was necessary "to ensure that we keep the pandemic under control".
However, he also said that in a country where a large number of people have been vaccinated, it is no longer possible to respond with strict measures such as lockdowns.
Scholz's party has said it aims to have a new government in place by early December, leaving the country in a kind of political limbo as it confronts the surge in new cases. Merkel will remain in power in the meantime but only as caretaker chancellor.
Germany recorded 9,658 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours on Monday and 23 deaths, according to the RKI.
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