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German Health Min: EU Travel Restrictions On Omicron Unlikely

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Wires and social media reporting comments from outgoing German Health Minister Jens Spahn. He states that he believes the introduction of travel restrictions within the EU due to the spread of the Omicron variant is 'unlikely'.

  • Also states that the EU should treat vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals differently.
  • Once Olaf Scholz and his Cabinet are sworn into office tomorrow, Social Democrat Bundestag member and professor of health economics and epidemiology at the University of Cologne Karl Lauterbach will become the new German health minister.
  • Lauterbach is seen as an outspoken advocate for tough measures to combat the coronavirus, and therefore Spahn's more relaxed comments regarding restrictions may not carry through to the next gov't.

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