New corona rules: mask requirement, alcohol ban, curfew - does that even make sense?

Keep your distance and hygiene measures - people in Germany have internalized these rules since March.

Now are curfew hours, alcohol bans, bans on accommodation - are these corona measures really useful?

An overview.

In the summer it looked like it would work and a

could be avoided.

Now the forecast for the Corona autumn is bleak: The number of

continues to rise, the second wave is here.

On Saturday morning (October 17), according to the

, the health authorities reported

7,830 new infections - more in one day than ever since the outbreak of the

in Germany.

That reports

*.

Initially, it was mainly infected returnees who brought the

to Germany.

In the meantime, it is always

at which the virus is transmitted.

Young, party-loving people also come into focus.

The number of

within the Federal Republic is increasing accordingly: According to the

, 102 of 412 rural and urban districts nationwide exceeded the limit of 50

per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days (as of October 19, midnight).

More and more regions are tightening corona rules - but: what helps?

More and more cities - including Berlin, Frankfurt, Bremen, Stuttgart - are becoming

and tightening

to contain the

.

There is a

in Berlin

and nightlife pauses from 11pm to 6am.

Only a maximum of 10 instead of the previous 25 people are allowed to participate in private celebrations in closed rooms.

In Stuttgart, people now have to

wear

even in the city center

.

The

is also available in Munich, also an alcohol-serving prohibition applies in the restaurant business after 22 pm at hotspots applies a night

.

But which

help most in the fight against

?

The most elementary question is also sometimes the greatest difficulty. Because there has simply never been a situation like this.

You have to adapt your actions to the current state of knowledge.

There are no years of experience or controlled

that can currently be used.

What can be noted, however, are the measures that were taken in various countries in the spring and how the number of

there subsequently developed.

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Mask requirement now also applies in some cities in public spaces.

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Studies on the coronavirus: According to analyzes, these measures make sense

This

is exactly what happened

at the

and the

.

That reports rbb24.de.

First of all, of course, it has to be said: In some cases, several

at the same time and the studies also do not consider what consequences these have on the economy, for example.

The conclusion from Oxford: Drastic measures such as school and university closings,

of shops (excluding systemically important shops) and personal restrictions at private meetings are most effective.

According to the Vienna study, "

", travel restrictions and quarantine

were particularly

effective in containing the pandemic when corona was suspected.

What is stopping the spread of the #corona virus?

Or at least slows down the contagion?

@HalukaMB has analyzed international studies on the most effective measures for us.

# COVID19de https://t.co/Y4HxcAY1Vi

- rbb | 24 (@ rbb24) October 10, 2020

It

is undisputed

that

such as hand washing,

keeping

your

and regular airing generally help against the spread of viruses.

When it

,

people at private meetings or

, some people disagree.

However, there is currently no time to test various measures in different cities over a longer period of time.

By then, the coronavirus has probably already spread - with dramatic consequences.

What helps against the coronavirus?

Politics reacts to current developments

The

reacts with the

, therefore, the information that is currently known.

Initially, a large proportion of new infections were imported from abroad after traveling.

The designation of

and the expansion of

at airports, train stations and motorway service areas were the result.

Recently, private celebrations such as weddings have come into focus.

Limiting the maximum number of participants, contact lists for follow-up and

for a certain number of people should help here.

Stricter

apply until the affected rural or urban district is no

longer

a

- i.e. the critical limit of

per 100,000 inhabitants is no longer exceeded for a period of seven days in a row.

In

, the stricter Corona regulation, which was published after pandemic level 3 was declared, will initially apply until November 30, 2020.

Curfew and alcohol ban: do these measures help in the fight against corona?

At the moment there are many boys who are

infected

with

- at parties and celebrations.

Therefore the

seems

a plausible

to intervene here directly.

In this way, politicians want to prevent sprawling parties and falling caution with rising alcohol levels - and still avoid complete closings.

Berlin's health senator Dilek Kalayci said in the RBB that night life had been identified as a source of infection.

"The time of socializing is over," she noted.

The head epidemiologist at the Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Gérard Krause, is

skeptical about

the effect of the

.

In an interview with Der Spiegel, he pointed out that this would mean that “more customers could come together in a shorter time”.

Thomas Lengfelder, Berlin head of the German Hotel and Restaurant Association (DEHOGA), warned against the editorial network Germany: "The meetings are then transferred to the private living space." He called instead for stronger

and tougher penalties for companies that deliberately not

stick

to the

.

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There has recently been a curfew in Berlin to contain the corona pandemic.

(Symbol image)

© Angelika Warmuth / dpa

Nevertheless, a lot of alcohol can lead to people losing their inhibitions,

no longer

keeping their

, taking off

- and then it becomes dangerous.

and

"are intended to prevent occasions under which infections can take place", health researcher Hajo Zeeb from the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology in Bremen told BR24.

Especially in bars and

, where it is comparatively tight and many people meet.

Doors and windows remained open in summer, in winter the air stands still and the risk of

increases.

Whether the

a good remedy for the pandemic will only show after a certain time.

Mask requirement in public areas - how useful is the Corona measure?

In

which is

been proclaimed - with

that apply across the country regardless of the incidence on site for all.

Among other things, this provides for a nationwide

everywhere in public areas, such as pedestrian zones - unless it is certain that the

to others can be maintained.

In schools, from grade 5, the mask requirement now also applies in lessons.

SARS-CoV-2

is spread via droplets or aerosols.

The basic problem with the

is that it can be transmitted before the infected

or sometimes even have symptom-free courses.

A

does not protect against infection by the coronavirus.

However, they can help to ensure that "droplets from saliva or throat secretions when breathing out, speaking, sneezing or coughing hit other people less," says the Federal Ministry of Health.

The RKI also recommends wearing masks wherever closer contact can occur.

# Wear mouth and nose cover - protect against droplet infection!

It is important that the everyday mask completely covers your mouth and nose and fits tightly around the edges.

#BZgA info at: https://t.co/jMH1DdII4s pic.twitter.com/O1gS3Aok17

- BZgA (@bzga_de) October 16, 2020

In the study by the

, the evaluation of the

shows

only a minor effect.

The person in charge Jan Brauner notes, however, that by the time this obligation was made mandatory, other measures (the

in March, for example) had significantly reduced public interactions.

"That could explain why studies in China and South Korea have found a greater effect where mask-wearing was introduced earlier," says Brauner.

No uniform regulation: ban on accommodation in several countries overturned

Many criticize that in the

, the

is lacking and so the population the

can not understand and the faith of those who set up the rules to lose.

This becomes particularly clear when it comes to the

.

So far, this has applied to guests from German regions in which 50 or more new

per 100,000 inhabitants were registered within seven days.

An overnight stay in hotels or restaurants is only allowed if you can present a negative

that is not older than 48 hours.

According to the law, avoidable trips from and into

should be avoided

.

In numerous federal states, however, the ban on accommodation has already been overturned *.

The

in

had initially suspended the ban.

The court saw the cut in the fundamental right to freedom of movement as disproportionate.

The country was also unable to demonstrate that hotels and guest houses are the "drivers" of the

, so that drastic measures are necessary.

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