Highs since April: Spahn announces new corona strategy for 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 22nd, 10:34 a.m

.:

,

or an

- these terms have been around since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and are causing explosives.

Federal

Health

(CDU) originally planned such an immunity card.

Corona proof should give individuals more freedom, according to the plan.

But as early as May, Spahn put his plan on hold.

And

there will

hardly be any proof of

in his

for this autumn and winter.

Because, the

advises against the introduction of a corona immunity card.

The panel of experts justified its vote in a statement published on Tuesday in Berlin with the current

after

with the corona

.

The recommendation of the Ethics Council was unanimous.

The Ethics Council advises

immunity certificates at the moment

"in view of the

with regard to the characteristics and timing of immunity and infectivity as well as the

".

Instead, other measures should be used for

.

In addition, the experts are calling for over-the

immunity to corona "due to their dubious reliability and the resulting risk potential" to be more strictly regulated.

For example, antibodies are not detectable in all recovered persons, and in rare cases there are incorrect results.

In the event that

should be reliably demonstrable in the future, the Ethics Council is divided on the

.

Half of the experts then consider

a step-by-step, event-related and area-related introduction of an immunity certificate to be sensible

.

At the same time, she warns that this should only happen on a voluntary basis and that there should

or

.

The other half of the council members

such a

 in any case for practical, ethical and legal reasons.

Corona in Germany: Spahn advertises vacation in Germany

Update from September 21, 10:13 p.m

.: After his appearance on ZDF (

)

also a

guest

on

on Monday evening

.

In the “Corona-Extra”, the Federal Minister of Health promoted

spending

autumn or winter holidays in

.

"We saw, with the winter vacation - keyword Ischgl - and now again during the summer vacation, that travel and mobility also lead to additional risks of infection."

fighting the foci of infection that resulted from it.

"I think you can have

a nice vacation

in

too

," said Spahn.

Corona in Germany: Spahn explains new strategy and urges caution

Update from September 21, 7:33 p.m

.:

Minister

wants to set up fever clinics across the board in the fall.

On Monday evening, the CDU politician once again highlighted the importance of so-called fever consultations on ZDF.

In the program

said

: "If you agree that patients with respiratory diseases are treated in a practice at certain times of the week, then that is also a very simple and very effective means of preventing the waiting room from becoming the main route of transmission." do not take immediate action elsewhere.

So that the number of infections does not explode in the cold season, the

relies on tried and tested methods: “What remains important are the banal

:

,

,

.

We can all make a difference in everyday life by taking care of each other. "

Fever clinics: The doctors' associations shared a response to Spahn's proposal

Update from September 21, 5:21 p.m

.: The move by Federal Health

to

set up

for respiratory diseases

across the

in the fall

response from

.

The chairman of the German Association of

Practitioners,

,

that care should

take place

in

as long as possible

.

"After all, there is also most of the experience in treating infection patients," he told the

.

Weigeldt

called fever clinics an important option if more

occur

regionally

.

In doing so, however, the

with the practices on site is essential, as they know best what the

is.

In regions with few

, on the other hand, care should not be unnecessarily outsourced from the practices.

In order to protect

,

asked for

it to be possible to

establish

by telephone

.

"Infection patients who do not need any treatment in the practice, for example because they have a mild flu-like infection, can cure themselves at home, and the general practitioners do not have to worry about the possible risk of infection for their other patients," he explained.

New Corona strategy: National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians and the German Medical Association are reacting cautiously

The

Physicians also reacted cautiously to

advance.

"Doctors in private practice can cope with the corona risk that the beginning of the cold season brings with it across the board," said a spokesman for

.

, as

suggested by

the

, are not the method of choice everywhere.

In sparsely populated areas, for example, there are other options such as special consultation hours for doctors in private practice.

"The prerequisite for a successful Corona strategy in autumn is that the open financing questions are quickly clarified and that sufficient protective equipment is available," emphasized the spokesman.

Klaus Reinhardt

, the head of the German

, made a

similar

statement in the

.

could be a

, but above all “solutions are required that are precisely tailored to the local conditions”.

In

any case, the practices prepared for the

activity in the practices in the

, reinforced by

, by changing processes, separate waiting areas or separate consultation hours for people with

.

However, serial tests and screenings should be systematically kept out of the practices and

concentrated

on

centers.

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

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”.

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

.

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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.

Right now, our health system is coping well with the situation, 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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