The horror scenario of a new lockdown accompanies the second corona wave in Germany.
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach and virologist Christian Drosten have a different proposal.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
:
New corona infections
remain at a consistently high level.
During the
second corona wave,
politicians bring
the scenario of a possible new
Covid-19
lockdown
into the debate.
SPD health expert
Karl Lauterbach
and virologist
Christian Drosten
advertise
short shutdowns
on
Twitter
.
Munich / Berlin - 2020 and the
coronavirus
: When it comes to politicians such as
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU)
is a renewed
lockdown
in
Germany
because of the sharp rise in
Corona
-Fallzahlen
not excluded.
Corona pandemic in Germany: Discussions about a new Covid-19 lockdown
The
Robert Koch Institute (RKI) found
5587 new infections with the insidious lung disease within 24 hours on this Sunday.
The numbers tend to be lower on Sundays as not all health departments report their new statistics.
Elsewhere in Europe, the situation with the
coronavirus pandemic is
even more precarious - for example in
Great Britain.
The nationwide
7-day incidence
in the United Kingdom as of October 18 was 195.
Measures are therefore being eagerly discussed between London, Cardiff and Edinburgh.
One of them apparently finds
favor
with the
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach
and the
virologist Christian Drosten
: short, temporary
lockdowns
.
Study is interesting, even for us.
Because, with systematic short shutdowns, the interruption of exponential growth could succeed, while at the same time minimizing the economic and school costs.
Interruptions could also be planned, which would increase acceptance https://t.co/gBrltJczUD
- Karl Lauterbach (@Karl_Lauterbach) October 18, 2020
Corona lockdown in Germany?
Lauterbach and Drosten promote the English approach
"
England is
discussing a precautionary, temporary lockdown (# circuitbreaker /" overload switch ") in order to delay the increase in new infections.
The option would be autumn and / or Christmas holidays in order to limit the economic impact, ”wrote
Drosten
, chief virologist at the Berlin Charite, on
.
Fr.de *, echo24.de * and ruhr24.de * are also reporting on a possible corona lockdown.
Lauterbach,
in turn, retweeted the posting and said: “(The) study is interesting, also for us.
Because, with
systematic short shutdowns,
the interruption of exponential growth could succeed, while at the same time minimizing the economic and school costs.
Interruptions could also be planned, which would increase acceptance. "
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: approval for lockdown or shutdown?
It
remains to be seen
whether such a measure
would really be approved by
the
Corona-
plagued population.
The British have not yet decided on such a new break in public life.
Lauterbach
meanwhile sees the responsibility of the population to
avert
a
second lockdown
.
“It will depend on how the population behaves.
That is more important than individual measures, “said the SPD health expert in the Funke newspapers.
The question is whether it will be possible to convince a sufficiently large proportion of German citizens to restrict their contacts.
Otherwise, clinics and health authorities would be overrun, said Lauterbach.
The result is "local shutdowns".
(
pm / dpa
)
* fr.de, echo24.de and ruhr24.de are parts of the nationwide Ippen-Digital network
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