Karl Lauterbach (SPD) calls for corona controls in private apartments: "We are in a national emergency"

SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach is calling for controls in private apartments and houses in view of the drastic numbers of corona infections.

• Karl Lauterbach

  sees Germany shortly before a second lockdown.

• The SPD health expert calls for

  controls

  in private rooms.

• The trigger is the increasing

  Covid-19 infections *

  in Germany.

Munich - The SPD politician

is considered a clear health expert for the Social Democrats.

The 57-year-old is currently strongly committed to a

: “We need a break, a kind of breakwater lockdown.

We have to get out of the exponential growth again, otherwise in three weeks we'll be back where we were in spring, only that we'll then face a long winter and have to go into a complete lockdown which will close most of all facilities nationwide for two weeks - including restaurants, bars, clubs and fitness studios.

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The SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach warns against classroom teaching in schools.

This could become a “superspreading event” in autumn and winter.

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Karl Lauterbach calls for controls in private apartments and breakwater lockdown

In order to avoid a scenario in which intensive care beds are missing due to the coronavirus and the number of

goes up, Lauterbach is calling for a massive reduction in contacts within the next few weeks.

For this, the SPD politician suggests that

also be

in private rooms

.

Lauterbach said to

the

: “We are in a national emergency that could be worse than in spring.

The inviolability of the apartment must no longer be an argument for a lack of controls. "

In the

a

, most of the contact with other people would take place in private.

already

a large part of the increasing

attributed.

Lauterbach says: "If private celebrations in apartments and houses endanger public health and thus security, the authorities must be able to intervene." After harsh criticism, the politician has already defused his statement on Twitter.

Lauterbach wrote there: “I refuse the police or law enforcement officers to check apartments.

The private home remains fully protected.

Nevertheless, we must urgently appeal to citizens to avoid any private celebration now. "

To make it clear again for everyone, because there is a lot of criticism: I refuse the police or law enforcement officers to control apartments.

The private home remains fully protected.

Nevertheless, we must urgently appeal to citizens to avoid any private celebration now https://t.co/dq719ohfzJ

- Karl Lauterbach (@Karl_Lauterbach) October 28, 2020

Corona lockdown scenarios: Lauterbach calls for a breakwater from Chancellor Merkel

The health expert sees

only ten to 15 days behind the surrounding countries, in which there are sometimes significantly higher numbers of corona infections than in Germany.

With an interim lockdown and the prevention of

,

wants to

prevent this development and at the same time keep schools and care facilities open for as long as possible.

The current Corona summit shows which further measures will be decided at the federal level.

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