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Following the Chancellor’s warning, other politicians have called for more commitment in the fight against the corona pandemic. CSU chief Söder called for “prudence, caution and solidarity.” Otherwise, there could be a new lock.
Chancellor Angela Merkel receives support for her urgent call to the population to reduce contacts.
“The situation is dire. If we do not take countermeasures quickly, Corona will spiral out of control,” Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder said of “Bild am Sonntag”. If in doubt, you risk a second lockdown, the CSU chief said. “Prudence, caution and solidarity have never been more important than now.”
Lauterbach believes local closures are possible
According to Karl Lauterbach, health expert of the SPD, only the population could still avoid a new blockade. “It will depend on how the population behaves. That is more important than individual measures,” Lauterbach told the newspapers of the Funke media group. Many of the state crown requirements were difficult to verify anyway. The question is whether it will be possible to convince a sufficiently large part of the population to limit its contacts.
If exponential growth does not slow down, “the daily number of cases will increase so rapidly in a very short period of time that clinics and health authorities will be overrun,” Lauterbach said. The result is “local stops”. With exponential growth, nothing else is possible after a few weeks in the affected regions.
Merkel calls for contacts to be restricted
On her weekly podcast on Saturday, Merkel called for the number of contacts outside the family to be limited and for travel behavior to be significantly restricted. “I ask you: Refrain from any travel that is not really necessary, any celebration that is not really necessary. Please stay home, whenever possible, in your place of residence.”
Germany is in a “very serious phase of the corona pandemic,” Merkel added. The spread of the corona virus is “faster than at the beginning more than six months ago.” Now every day counts. In this situation, it is no longer enough to keep your distance and wear a mask. “We have to go further now. Science tells us clearly: the spread of the virus depends directly on the number of contacts and encounters each of us has.”
Consideration and reason as “the most effective means”
Germany has weathered the pandemic comparatively well so far because the people stick together and have followed the rules out of consideration and common sense. “This is the most effective remedy we currently have against the pandemic. Now it is more necessary than ever.” The relatively relaxed summer is over. Difficult months ahead. How winter will go will be decided in the coming days and weeks. “We all decide that through our actions,” Merkel warned.
To contain the spread of the virus, the contact persons of each infected person should be notified to break the chain of infection. The health authorities did “very well”, but when the number of infected people was too high, they could no longer keep up.
Kretschmer asks the health authorities for help
Therefore, the Prime Minister of Saxony, Michael Kretschmer, called for greater support from the Bundeswehr to the health authorities. “We are in the exponential phase,” said the CDU politician of “Bild am Sonntag”. “We have to hope that the number of new infections will double every three or four days. This pushes the health authorities to the limit in the follow-up of contacts of positive cases and we can no longer interrupt the chains of contagion.”
According to Kretschmer, health authorities must urgently be updated. “The Bundeswehr must be more closely involved and employees of state ministries must be seconded. The police must help regulatory agencies monitor the measures.”
