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“The situation is more serious than ever in this pandemic”
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Wieler – “New infections must now decrease significantly”
RKI Chairman Lothar Wieler has urgently warned about the possible consequences of ignoring Corona’s rules. Instead, you should be prepared for the fact that the situation will get worse after Christmas.
In clear words, RKI President Lothar Wieler called on the population to limit their contacts to a minimum and not exhaust the maximum number allowed during Christmas.
LOthar Wieler, president of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), raised the alarm at a press conference on Tuesday. “The situation is more serious than ever in this pandemic,” he said.
Currently more than 325,000 people in Germany are infected with Sars-CoV-2, in the summer there were only a few thousand. More and more people over the age of 80 are also being affected. Out of around 27,000 intensive care places in Germany, around 22,000 are currently occupied. The death rate is very high, and some people also die from late effects such as thrombosis, stroke, or liver failure, sometimes weeks or months later. 15 percent of those infected over the age of 85 would die.
We are currently seeing the result of the carelessness of some people for whom others have to pay a very high price ”. Wieler’s “very clear appeal” is to keep contacts to a minimum. “I certainly will not use the maximum number of possible contacts that have been made over Christmas; I deliberately fall short of that,” Wieler emphasized. His two daughters and his wife would go into quarantine before meeting the in-laws as a family.
“Nothing is more important in vaccination than confidence in the vaccine”
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU), who attended the press conference alongside Wieler, said that she would be alone with her husband on Christmas Eve, perhaps attending Christmas mass with registration.
When asked about his September statement that one would no longer close hair salons with “today’s knowledge,” Spahn said, “The best hygiene concept does not reduce the risk of infection to zero.” In the spring, during the first wave, there was another situation where, in hindsight, the hair salons did not have to close. Today, however, the situation is more difficult and worse. The risk also arises not in the stores themselves, but on the way to the city centers. Therefore, you must accept that your assessment of the hairdressers for September was incorrect.
Spahn subsequently explained again why Germany is dependent on proper full vaccine approval, as opposed to emergency approvals in Britain, for example. “Nothing is more important in vaccination than confidence in the vaccine. We want a thorough examination, but also a proper and prompt approval. ”
Jens Spahn (CDU, r.), Federal Minister of Health, and Lothar Wieler, Director of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
People don’t want to be guinea pigs either, so a healthy balance must be found. Lothar Wieler also referred to studies according to which high proportions of the population demand safety and knowledge about the possible side effects of vaccination.
Full approval in the European Union, which is scheduled for December 23, will be the first in the world, Spahn stressed. In the end, the head of RKI, Wieler, stated once again that the vaccine is indeed the solution to the corona pandemic problem, but this will only be achieved if everyone has actually been vaccinated. But this will take some time.
“A leading Formula 1 driver can see the goal, but then he doesn’t stop, he comes out and says: ‘I see the goal, I won.’ You have to go the rest of the way.
