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Across Germany, disease control rules need to be tightened due to the rapid increase in the number of people who have been confirmed to be infected with the new type of coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2), the Bavarian Prime Minister said on Tuesday, Markus Söder, in Munich.
“It is faster and more consistent than hesitant and reluctant, and a more effective therapy than a full placebo,” said the president of the Christian Social Union (CSU). He did not comment in detail on what the appropriate “therapy” might be. However, he stressed that much stricter restrictions will be needed than before.
Nor did he comment on the news report that Angela Merkel is proposing the introduction of a so-called mild short-circuit, a set of rules indicated in the German press by the phrase lockdown light. This would mean that public education and child care would continue to function and with added precautions retail would work as well, but restaurants would have to close and ban all events again.
Physics researcher Angela Merkel, who made her way into politics, has also been warning for weeks about the dangers of an explosive and exponential increase in the number of infections in her public appearances, as well as in closed forums, according to constant press reports.
According to Bild, his party, the Christian Democratic Union and the fraternal party, in the joint federal parliamentary group of the CSU (Bundestag) on Tuesday, noted that the number of confirmed infections doubles in about a week and the number of people who need intensive care doubles in ten days. From this, as well as from the capacity of the healthcare system, it follows that all beds in intensive care units in German hospitals are filled at Christmas.
“Four more duplications and voila, the system is over,” the foreign minister said, according to reports from the faction meeting.
SARS-Cov-2 is spreading rapidly in Germany compared to the summer after the first wave, but with less force than in most neighboring countries. According to the Robert Koch National Institute of Public Health (RKI) on Tuesday, there have been 11,409 infections in the past 24 hours, up from 6,868 more than a week earlier.
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