Rules are rules! Police enforce 1.5-metre social distancing with giant rulers during Covid protest in Frankfurt

 Police in Germany have gone the extra mile when it comes to enforcing social distancing measures, with officers seen using giant 1.5 metre rulers during a Covid protest in Frankfurt.

Bizarre video footage shows police officers scanning a crowd of protesters demonstrating against the government's Covid restrictions in the city while holding red and white measuring sticks. 

One police officer can be seen approaching protesters and measuring whether they are 1.5 metres apart with the giant ruler on Saturday night. 

Thousands of protestors took to the streets in several cities across Germany to protest against the latest measures at the weekend, with around 10,000 people demonstrating in Hamburg. 

Police in Germany have gone the extra mile when it comes to enforcing social distancing measures, with officers seen using giant 1.5 metre rulers during a Covid protest in Frankfurt

Police in Germany have gone the extra mile when it comes to enforcing social distancing measures, with officers seen using giant 1.5 metre rulers during a Covid protest in Frankfurt

Bizarre video footage shows police officers scanning a crowd of protesters demonstrating against the government's Covid restrictions in the city while holding red and white measuring sticks

Bizarre video footage shows police officers scanning a crowd of protesters demonstrating against the government's Covid restrictions in the city while holding red and white measuring sticks

Frankfurt Police Department have previously told the public that they would be using the rulers to check compliance with social distancing rules

Frankfurt Police Department have previously told the public that they would be using the rulers to check compliance with social distancing rules

Frankfurt Police Department have previously told the public that they would be using the rulers to check compliance with social distancing rules.  

The protests in Frankfurt on Saturday saw around 100 people take part in the demonstration. The demonstrators were left baffled when the police officers brought out rulers to measure their distance.   

Anger has been mounting in Germany after the government announced earlier this month to bar the unvaccinated from access to all but the most essential businesses such as grocery stores, pharmacies and bakeries. 

Meanwhile nightclubs and music venues in areas where the incidence rate is higher than 350 will be forced to close.

Outdoor football stadiums will be limited to a maximum of 15,000 spectators while indoor venues will be capped at 5,000. 

Schools students will have to wear masks while private gatherings for unvaccinated people will be limited to one household. 

The Bundestag also earlier this month debated a nationwide vaccine mandate with a view to making it law by February next year. Members will vote on the bill in early 2022. 

Police face demonstrators protesting the COVID-10 restriction measures, in Greiz, Germany, on Saturday

Police face demonstrators protesting the COVID-10 restriction measures, in Greiz, Germany, on Saturday

Just 69 per cent of Germany's population is vaccinated, lower than the 74.2 per cent who have had both jabs in Italy and the 70.7 per cent in France. Meanwhile 69.3 per cent of the UK's population have had both jabs. 

It comes after health officials said children aged from five to 11-years-old will be eligible to begin receiving COVID-19 vaccine doses this week in Berlin.     

The children in that age group will be able to get a first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech shot in Berlin's mass vaccination centers in schools, doctors' offices and even at the city's Natural History Museum.

The news comes days after Germany's independent vaccination advisory panel said Thursday it was recommending vaccination for children age 5 to 11 with preexisting conditions or who are in close contact with vulnerable people. 

Children in this age group should receive two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine three to six weeks apart, the panel said.

The panel, known by its German acronym STIKO, added that young children without preexisting conditions can be vaccinated if there is an 'individual desire' to do so - a step short of advising that all children in that age group get the shots.

Top government officials have pushed to make the vaccine available for younger children across the country.

'For many 5- to 11-year-old children and their families, this is a huge relief,' incoming families minister Anne Spiegel told the Funke media group in an interview published Sunday.

Other German states, including North Rhine-Westphalia, Hamburg and Bavaria, will also make shots available to the 5-11 age group in the coming days.

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