Scholz taps epidemiologist as new German health minister

Published December 6, 2021 4:17 AM

By GEIR MOULSON
Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz has announced that an epidemiologist who has been a prominent voice of caution in the coronavirus pandemic will be Germany’s new health minister. He will be part of a team that includes the first woman to become the country’s top security official. Scholz presented his center-left Social Democrats’ nominees for the Cabinet hours before the last of the prospective partners in the new three-party government, the environmentalist Greens, planned to announce on Monday whether their members have voted in a ballot to approve the deal to form a coalition government. That would clear the way for parliament to elect Scholz on Wednesday.

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