Merkel’s husband hits out at ‘laziness’ of unvaccinated Germans

Amid calls for mandatory jabs, Joachim Sauer says complacency partly to blame for rising Covid rates

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Angela Merkel's husband has accused unvaccinated Germans of laziness", amid calls for the introduction of mandatory coronavirus jabs to combat a dramatic rise in infections.

Germany's Covid-19 resurgence has in part been blamed on its vaccination rate of 68%, which is relatively low compared with western European nations such as France, Italy and Spain.