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The number of new infections each day has passed the 2,000 mark for the first time since August. Virologist Christian Drosten worries that the situation is now fundamentally different.
Virologist Christian Drosten sees differences in the development of the number of new infections in Germany compared to August. The value of around 2,200 new infections reported on Thursday by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) was “not just any fluctuation. Now we are increasing again,” said the renowned virologist from the Berlin Charité at a congress where he was responsible for its Se awarded awareness of the pandemic.
In August, the brief rise and fall in the number of new infections was almost certainly due to imported cases from abroad, “which did not go further in Germany,” Drosten said. The now newly diagnosed cases are infections that have occurred in Germany and mainly indications of undetected clusters in the background, which are then in Germany.
Drosten warns about “super spreaders”
For example, a group can be a group of people at a family celebration. “That means we have to adjust to the fact that what we see is the beginning of an increase in incidence, which we have to come back to control at some point,” Drosten said.
In the case of the coronavirus, most infected people, according to Drosten’s previous statements, cause relatively few infections, while individual infected people, the so-called super spreaders, cause a large number of secondary cases in certain circumstances, for example, in a group.
