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 Compulsory vaccination for staff in hospitals and care facilities is
due to come into force in Germany on March 15. Numerous people who
will be affected had filed the emergency petitions with the
constitutional court in Karlsruhe.
Germany's current coronavirus wave is expected to peak around
mid-February, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach said last month.
Lauterbach has warned against lifting restrictions fast as this
could sow the seeds of a new wave.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday that the fifth wave of the
coronavirus driven by the Omicron variant was approaching its peak,
allowing a gradual return to normal life. Details of lifting some
restrictions will be finalised during a meeting next week between
Scholz and leaders of Germany's 16 states.
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 "The scientific prognoses show us that the peak
of the wave is in sight," Scholz said in a
speech in the Bundesrat upper house of
parliament. "This allows us at the meeting
between the federal government and states next
week to take the first reopening steps and
consider more steps for spring."
(Reporting by Ursula Knapp and Andreas Rinke;
Writing by Paul Carrel and Joseph Nasr; Editing
by Hans Seidenstuecker and Maria Sheahan)
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