Corona lockdown in Germany? Lauterbach and Drosten bring completely new variants into play

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.

• Politicians bring

  the scenario of a possible new

  Covid-19

  lockdown

  into the debate

  during the

  second corona wave

  .

• SPD health expert

  Karl Lauterbach

  and virologist

  Christian Drosten

  advertise

  short shutdowns

  on

  Twitter

  .

Munich / Berlin - 2020 and the

: When it comes to politicians such as

is a renewed

in

because of the sharp rise in

not excluded.

Corona pandemic in Germany: Discussions about a new Covid-19 lockdown

The

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

even more precarious - for example in

The nationwide

in the UK as of October 18 was 195.

Measures are therefore being eagerly discussed between London, Cardiff and Edinburgh.

One of them is apparently popular with the

and the

: short, temporary

.

Study is interesting, even for us.

Because with systematic short shutdowns the interruption of an 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

"

discussing a precautionary, temporary lockdown (# circuitbreaker /" overload switch ") to delay the increase in new infections.

The option would be autumn and / or Christmas holidays to limit the economic impact, ”wrote

, chief virologist at the Berlin Charite, on

.

Fr.de *, echo24.de *, ruhr24.de * and wa.de * also report a possible corona lockdown.

Lauterbach,

in turn, retweeted the post and said: “(The) study is interesting, also for us.

Because with

the interruption of an exponential growth could succeed while 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

afflicted 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

.

“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".

(

)

List of rubric lists: © Michael Kappeler / dpa