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Germany to stop paying unvaccinated in quarantine
Health Minister Jens Spahn announced on Wednesday
22 September, 17:08
(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, SEP 22 - Germans who have not been
vaccinated against Covid-19 will no longer receive compensation
for lost pay if they have to quarantine from November, Health
Minister Jens Spahn said on Wednesday. The government had been
stepping in to pay workers sent into quarantine for at least
five days after having contact with an infected person or
returning from a "high risk" area abroad. But that policy will
end from November 1, Spahn said after a meeting with the health
ministers of Germany's 16 states, in the latest government
initiative to encourage more Germans to take the jab. Getting
vaccinated remained a "personal decision", Spahn said, but that
decision would now "also come with the responsibility to bear
the financial consequences". (ANSA-AFP).
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