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Germany is in the grip of a fourth wave of coronavirus. Cases are rising rapidly and many hospitals are full but it has one of the lowest vaccination rates in Western Europe, with only around 68% of people fully vaccinated. Yesterday, Germany recorded its highest daily death toll since February. Germany's incoming Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has said he supports compulsory jabs, and there are plans for a lockdown for people who have not been vaccinated.

Dr Hans Bodeker, a consultant at the St Joseph-Stift hospital in Dresden, Saxony, Saxony, which has the highest infection rate in the country, says many of the younger people being hospitalised there are not vaccinated. He believes that scepticism about the government and' mainstream media' is behind this.

"They are living in their social media bubble and see the danger not from Covid, but from the vaccinations."

Photo: A patient is treated in a hospital in Leipzig, Saxony Credit: Getty Images