Berlin, 12 December 2021 (dpa/MIA) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for flexibility in taking countermeasures to combat the coronavirus pandemic. "There must be no red lines, this pandemic has really shown us that. We must always be ready to rethink if circumstances require it," he told the Sunday edition of the mass circulation Bild newspaper. Then, he said, one must act quickly and decisively. "So that the hospitals can offer enough intensive care beds despite the many Covid-19 patients, we have just made a lot of money available," he explained. "The ban on fireworks on New Year's Eve is also aimed at preventing more injured people from putting additional strain on emergency rooms." Scholz did not categorically reject a Christmas lockdown. In response to a question to that effect, he said, "The federal government and the states have just taken very rigid measures. We will check every day how they are implemented and whether they are sufficient." According to Scholz, Germany is not divided into vaccinated and unvaccinated people. "The vast majority of citizens have been vaccinated. Many more want to do it soon because they have overcome their reservations," he opined. "And of those who have not been vaccinated, there are very few who think they have to demonstrate their opposition to vaccination with military torchlight marches and threaten politicians who work around the clock for the citizens." Scholz affirmed, "I want to keep the country together. And so I am also the chancellor of the uninoculated." Having different opinions does not mean division, he said. "We are also allowed to argue. I am convinced that the vast majority of the unvaccinated find these torchlight rallies as repugnant as I do." Scholz was referring to an incident a few days ago when opponents of anti-coronavirus policies had marched with torches to stop in front of the residence of Saxony's Health Minister Petra Koepping.