Highs since April: Spahn announces new corona strategy for autumn and winter in Germany

Health Minister Jens Spahn announces a new corona strategy for the cold season in Germany.

There should be central contact points for patients with classic respiratory symptoms.

• The second wave * of the coronavirus pandemic * seems

  to have reached

  Germany

  .

• Federal

  Minister of

  Health

  Jens Spahn

  has now announced a new

  corona strategy

  for

  autumn

  and

  winter

  .

• So-called

  fever clinics

  are to become central contact points for patients with the classic symptoms * of a respiratory disease.

• We have summarized basic facts about the coronavirus * for you.

  We also offer you the current number of cases in Germany as well as the

  Corona news

  from

  Germany

  on a map 

  .

Update from September 21, 3:04 p.m

.: Federal Health

 has

the plans to set up so-called

with a view to a feared increase in the

.

“It's about having an infrastructure that ensures that people don't get infected with one another in the waiting room.

That makes sense for Corona and also with the flu and a possible flu wave, "said

on Monday in

.

In the

future,

patients with corresponding

should be able to turn to “specialist consultation hours”, “specialist practices” and “regional fever clinics”.

Safe through autumn: Germany has come through the #Corona crisis comparatively well so far.

To ensure that it stays that way, the Federal Minister of Health @jensspahn has announced special protective measures for risk groups and fever clinics in the @DLF.

https://t.co/BDNMhqRRxn pic.twitter.com/X4FsobvSFa

- Germany's CDU (@CDU) September 21, 2020

In addition,

stated

that

part of the

from mid-October.

These are now also qualitatively better.

According to the health minister, visitors to

can be tested quickly in order to find out a

.

Furthermore,

commented

on Monday about the current

of

in

.

This is worrying.

"There is no neighboring country directly to Germany that does not have a multiple of our number of infections based on the size of the population, and that of course also leads to entry into Germany," said the

.

Corona high since April: Spahn announces new corona strategy for autumn and winter

Update from September 21, 1:53 p.m

.:

would like to present a new

by mid-

at the latest

.

The quarantine regulations are to be adjusted nationwide, says Spahn in a press conference on Monday in Berlin.

There should be no further opening steps, stresses Spahn.

In autumn and winter, patients should not be infected in the waiting room of doctor's offices, which is why so-called “fever clinics” are planned.

There are different concepts from the associations of statutory health insurance physicians.

The Minister of Health did not initially provide any further details.

First report from September 21, 2020

Munich / Berlin - The

the

now

seems

to have reached

.

In many places, the number of

rising

again.

Last Saturday, September 19,

the highest value since April was reached

with 2297 new

.

With a new

, Federal

Health

wants to

arm

the country for the feared increase in the number of

in the cold seasons of autumn and winter.

New corona strategy in Germany: fever clinics as central contact points

The

new strategy

provides for so-called

and special protective

for

.

In an interview with the

,

explained

that there

should be

for patients with classic respiratory symptoms that indicate a

or corona infection *

.

The offer is to be built up according to his plans of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.

"Conceptually, they already exist - they should ideally be accessible across the board in autumn," said the

.

Almost 2300 new # COVID19 infections are daily highs since April.

Our health system is currently handling the situation well, but the dynamics across #Europe are concerned.

We can all make the decisive difference in everyday life: #AHA

- Jens Spahn (@jensspahn) September 19, 2020

Jens Spahn: Preventive series tests in the sensitive areas to protect the risk groups

To protect

from a

, there should also be special measures from autumn.

"It is important that we continue to protect the particularly affected risk groups and sharpen the concepts for this in everyday life,"

clear.

In

and

,

in sensitive areas such as nursing homes are to become an integral part of the test strategy.

The Federal Minister of Health warned: “We have to prevent the virus from entering there.

The highest level of vigilance still applies. "

Corona Germany: Further development of the test and quarantine strategy by mid-October

Furthermore,

announced

that he

wants to have further developed

the

for the

by mid-October

in coordination with the federal states

.

"It is crucial that we develop our test and quarantine strategy well and carefully for the autumn and winter," he said.

The realignment of the

is already underway.

are therefore also planned, as are new requirements from the Federal Ministry of the Interior for

for returnees from

.

The

in

had already been ramped up enormously in the past few weeks.

"In the last four weeks alone, around a third of all tests since the beginning of the pandemic have been done,"

made clear

.

According to the

of

, the last time there were

within a week.

Experts are now recommending a simple home remedy that will probably

help

against the spread of the

.

On Saturday night, the

had to break up

several illegal corona parties.

The German biotech company Biontech is

already very far

in the development of a

* - and is planning something spectacular.

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