The Bayern player is unable to resume training yet due to a “slight injury to the lungs” caused as a result of the covid.
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Bayern Munich midfielder or right-back Joshua Kimmich, unvaccinated and contaminated at the end of November with Covid-19, is out of quarantine but will not play again until 2022 due to physical after-effects, announced the German club on Thursday, December 9. . “I am happy that my quarantine is over. I am doing very well, but I cannot yet train fully due to a slight damage to my lungs,” The 26-year-old explained in a statement.
ℹ️ Der #FCBayern wird seine noch ausstehenden Spiele bis zum Jahresende ohne Joshua #Kimmich absolvieren.
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– FC Bayern München (@FCBayern) December 9, 2021
“So I’m going to be doing some fitness training and can’t wait to be back full time in January,” he added. The midfielder will miss the last three league games scheduled for December, namely the receptions of Mainz (December 11) and Wolfsburg (December 17), and the trip to Stuttgart (December 14). The Bavarian metronome’s last meeting with his club now dates back to November 6 against Freiburg.
Kimmich’s choice not to be vaccinated had sparked endless debates in Germany. The Minister of the Interior had even urged him to be vaccinated. Many, in the press or among politicians, have accused him of sending a negative signal, in a country where the vaccination rate is insufficient (69.3% of people fully vaccinated).
Germany is currently hit by a new wave of contaminations. To face it, the new social democratic chancellor Olaf Scholz will ask the parliament to vote on the vaccination obligation which, if approved, will come into force in February or March next.