In Austria, a second corona lockdown will apply from Tuesday like in spring.
The video of a Drosten interview from April, in which he predicted the current situation, goes viral.
The
second wave * of
the
corona pandemic * is
causing high numbers of infections in large parts of Europe.
In
Austria
, a
second lockdown
was announced at the weekend
, as in spring.
Virologist
Christian Drosten
predicted
the current situation in an interview with
ORF
in April.
Munich - During the
second wave of
the
corona pandemic
, the number of infections rose sharply across Europe.
In
Germany, there
are again restrictions on daily life, one is in a
partial lockdown
.
In
Austria
, Chancellor
Sebastian Kurz
announced a
second lockdown
on Saturday,
like in spring, with exit restrictions around the clock and schools and business closings.
In the neighboring country, the video of an interview with virologist
Christian Drosten
from the spring
has since
gone viral.
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Coronavirus: Drosten interview from April goes viral
It is a conversation that the German expert
Drosten had
with the news program
ZiB2
on ORF television on the subject of
coronavirus *
.
The conversation dates from April 24, 2020, but in view of the tough
corona lockdown
in
Austria, it
is an exact forecast of the events.
In the interview,
Drosten
predicted that some of the
corona measures *
could be relaxed in the summer.
At the same time, however, the virologist from the
Berlin Charité
warned
that there would still be "little population immunity".
Coronavirus: Drosten predicts another lockdown in an interview from the spring
You would then “run into a winter wave with an immunologically naive population”, predicted
Drosten
in April.
At the time he warned: “You have to prepare for it.
That would be dangerous. ”In
an interview,
Drosten
said that you have to be prepared for
a new
lockdown
in
winter
.
Whenever someone says that the massive increase in the number of corona infections in autumn came as a surprise, I have to think of this clip.
Christian Drosten in ZIB2 on April 24, 2020: pic.twitter.com/2gEY7o09e3
- Patrick Swanson (@patrickswnsn) November 15, 2020
The
ORF
-Journalist
Patrick Swanson
shared the video on his
-Account.
He wrote: "Whenever someone says that the massive increase in the number of
corona infections
in autumn was surprising, I have to think of this clip." The tweet garnered around 8,000 likes and more than 2,500 retweets within a few hours.
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