The federal government has set up a crisis team because of the corona virus developments. There should also be changes when entering Germany.
- Because of the beginning coronavirus epidemic, the federal government is setting up a crisis team .
- Interior Minister Seehofer also announced stricter entry regulations .
- Spahn also gave specific advice on how people should behave if they suspect coronavirus .
Berlin - Due to the increased occurrence of corona cases , the authorities will increasingly focus on what happens when entering Germany: People who come to Germany by train, bus or boat should fill out special "drop-out cards" , said the Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) in Berlin on Thursday. Air travelers from infection areas should also provide information about their whereabouts. The situation has "worsened significantly" , warned Seehofer.
Coronavirus: Seehofer speaks of an "incipient epidemic"
The interior minister also emphasized that it was an "incipient epidemic" . He further made a pessimistic forecast: "There will also be a further upward trend ," he predicted. Information on their stay should provide the authorities with return trips from China, South Korea, Japan, Iran and Italy, said Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) * He also announced a targeted information campaign on behavioral measures for return travelers from northern Italy.
Spahn also pointed out that health insurance companies cover the costs of corona * examinations . He also gave specific advice on how to deal with suspected infections. You should not sit in a doctor's waiting room, but contact us by phone to be examined at home. According to Seehofer, the transfer of asylum seekers to and from Italy has been suspended.
Coronavirus: The federal government has set up a crisis team
Due to the beginning of the corona epidemic, the federal government has set up a crisis team , in which the ministries of the interior and health are significantly involved .
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Despite the increasing number of coronavirus infections, the President of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler , Germany sees the pathogen "not defenseless" . Everyone could do something by themselves, from "banal things" such as washing hands to avoiding major events or public transport in the event of infections, said Wieler. How you can also protect yourself against the corona virus *, read Merkur.de *. In total, over 25 corona cases are known to date in Germany.
In North Rhine-Westphalia , all new infections are directly related to contacts with the first sick couple. The sick are "office workers and neighbors from the surrounding area," said State Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) on Thursday in the ZDF morning magazine.
Coronavirus: NRW Minister of Health Laumann considers blocking off individual places as wrong
A Bundeswehr soldier who was ready to fly and tested positive for the coronavirus also had contact with the first-sick. Currently, the environment of the new infections is clearly limited to the Heinsberg district . Blocking off individual locations is, according to Lauman, not the right measure - what measures can be taken in the event of further spread is regulated by the Infection Protection Act.
In the next step, the participants of the carnival session in which the couple had participated had to be identified. Laumann also announced that he would talk to virologists about a possible test for all participants . "We have to adapt the measures to the situation every day," he said. The sick wife works in a kindergarten. According to Laumann, all children are in quarantine. However, the couple's own children are doing well.
But the spread of the corona virus has fatal consequences not only in the health sector. The economy is also increasingly burdened by Covid19.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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