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		</div><p>German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s chief of staff has warned that restrictions for unvaccinated people may be necessary if Covid-19 case numbers reach new heights in the coming months.</p>
<p>But Helge Braun said in an interview with the newspaper Bild am Sonntag that he does not expect another coronavirus-related lockdown in Germany.</p>
<p>Unvaccinated people may be barred from entering venues such as restaurants, cinemas and stadiums “because the residual risk is too high”, he said.</p>
<p>He added that getting vaccinated is important to protect against severe disease but also because “vaccinated people will definitely have more freedoms than unvaccinated people”.</p>
<p>Mr Braun said such policies would be legal because “the state has the responsibility to protect the health of its citizens”.</p>
<p>Germany’s vaccination efforts have slowed in recent weeks and that has led to discussions about how to encourage those who have not yet received a jab to do so.</p>
<p>More than 60% of the German population has received at least one dose while more than 49% are fully vaccinated.</p>
<p>With the highly transmissible Delta variant spreading in Germany, politicians have debated the possibility of requiring vaccination for specific professions, including medical workers. No such requirements have yet been implemented.</p>
<p>During a recent visit to the Robert Koch Institute, the government-run disease control agency, Mrs Merkel ruled out new vaccine requirements “at the moment”. The government would prefer to focus on encouraging vaccination for the time being, she said.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, she added: “I’m not ruling out that this might be talked about differently in a few months either.”</p>
<p>Winfried Kretschmann, governor of the south-western state of Baden-Wurttemberg, noted on Sunday that the Delta variant and others that may emerge could make vaccine requirements more attractive.</p>
<p>While there are no current plans to require people to get vaccinated, he told the German news agency DPA: “I can’t rule out compulsory vaccinations for all time.”</p>
<p>Others condemned Mr Braun’s comments, warning against freedoms and rights based on one’s vaccination status.</p>
<p>“Of course we need incentives to reach the highest possible vaccination rate,” Marco Buschmann, parliamentary group leader for the pro-business Free Democrats, told the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland newspaper group.</p>
<p>However, he said, if it is true that unvaccinated people who have been tested or recovered from the virus pose no greater danger than vaccinated people, to impose such restrictions on the unvaccinated “would be a violation of their basic rights”.</p>
<p>Rolf Mutzenich, head of the centre-left Social Democrats’ parliamentary group, said politicians should be focusing more on getting willing citizens vaccinated rather than penalising the unvaccinated.</p>
<p>“We’re not going to sustainably change the vaccination behaviour of individuals with threats,” he told RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland.</p>
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