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RKI chief believes corona hotspots can be sealed
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“We have to stop the exponential increase”
The federal and state governments have fought for eight hours, but Chancellor Merkel is still not satisfied with the results of the Corona summit. There is a disagreement on the ban on accommodation. On other points it was possible to agree.
Nine months ago, RKI President Lothar Wieler could not imagine cordoning off risk areas; now he sees it differently. “If the measures are not hardened, the number of infections will continue to increase,” he warns.
WITHTo contain the corona pandemic, the president of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, no longer rules out cordoning off risk areas. “Nine months ago, in a similar interview, I said that I couldn’t imagine that. In the meantime, I can imagine such measures will be carried out, “Wieler told Phoenix television station on Thursday. His institute had previously reported the record number of 6,638 new infections in Germany, 2,580 more than on Thursday of the previous week.
Lothar Wieler lacks “commitment” in crown measures
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“If the measures are not hardened, the number of infections will continue to increase,” warned the head of RKI and mentioned a number of up to 10,000 new infections daily. In the face of the crown measures agreed between the federal and state governments on Wednesday, Wieler criticized that it lacked “binding force.” Some of the measurements are only recommendations, but you would like the use of masks to be mandatory indoors.
The RKI chief also campaigned for controversial accommodation bans to restrict travel activities: “Mobility is one of the drivers of this pandemic.” The regulation has now been overturned by courts in two federal states. In Baden-Württemberg, the Mannheim Administrative Court suspended the ban because it was a disproportionate reduction in the fundamental right to freedom of movement. In Lower Saxony, the Higher Administrative Court in Lüneburg declared the ban illegal. In Saxony, after a conversation with district administrators and mayors, the government announced that it would lift the regulation from Saturday.
