(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, DEC 10 - Germany's lower house of
parliament passed a draft law Friday requiring healthcare
workers and soldiers to get inoculated against Covid-19, a first
step toward possible mandatory jabs for all adults. A large
majority of Bundestag MPs voted for the measure requiring staff
at hospitals, doctors' offices and care homes to be fully
vaccinated by mid-March 2022. The Bundesrat or upper house is
expected to pass the bill later Friday following similar moves
by France, Italy, Britain and Greece. Health Minister Karl
Lauterbach, who took office this week with the new government
under Olaf Scholz, asked deputies from across the political
spectrum to support the measure to protect vulnerable groups.
"The pandemic is a mission for us all -- this isn't a moment for
party politics," he told the chamber before the vote.
(ANSA-AFP).
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