The number of infections must drop significantly, demand top virologists.
A panel of experts before the Corona summit speaks, among other things, about a radius restriction to five kilometers.
Berlin - Several top virologists are calling for policies to tighten.
Before the Corona crisis summit, experts from
science * were
heard
in a video link with around 60 politicians, including
Angela Merkel *
(CDU)
and the country leaders.
Charité virologist Prof.
Christian Drosten
,
RKI boss Lothar Wieler
, Prof. Michael Meyer-Hermann from the
Helmholtz Institute
and
physicist Dr.
Viola Priesemann
from the
Max Planck Institute in Göttingen
were among the speakers, according to the
Bild
newspaper, referring to the participants.
RKI boss Wieler
should
say
that the currently low numbers are of little value
have said - because little is being tested.
Conversation with radius restrictions: virologist with a tough demand
"The reported cases are not the problem at all, but those who do not know and do not adhere to the contact rules," said Priesemann.
She is a physicist at the
Max Planck Institute
and, according to the
picture
, demanded
: “You have to make a consistent
lockdown
and persevere, as in other countries.
We need low case numbers. ”The tightening proposed by her apparently includes
canteen closures
, a“
stay-at-home
”order by the government or the restriction of seats in
local public transport
.
Another point of discussion by Priesemann: She even calls for
citizens to be restricted in their
movement
to a radius of 5 kilometers.
Here https://t.co/Ir46QZQVft @ViolaPriesemann and I talk to the intensive care doctor Uwe Janssens about why we need low case numbers.
Many # SARSCoV2 infections allow changes in the virus - this is exactly what needs to be avoided.
Act proactively, not reactively.
- Melanie Brinkmann (@BrinkmannLab) January 4, 2021
“We still have too much mobility,” Thuringia's Prime Minister
Bodo Ramelow (Die Linke)
said
in advance of the
crisis summit
.
In the Free State, they apparently want to introduce a radius restriction of 15 kilometers, as it currently already exists in Saxony.
According to information from the
German Press Agency
, mobility restrictions will also be discussed on Tuesday morning in preparation for the crisis summit: In circles with a high rate of
new infections
, there could be restrictions on the permitted range of movement around the place of residence.
It is still open whether this point will be included in the
decision
paper.
Before the Corona summit: the expert does not want to open schools - Drosten about virus mutation
"A target incidence of 10 is a value that we should be heading towards" - this is the opinion of
Prof. Michael Meyer-Hermann, systems immunologist at the Helmholtz Institute.
He reportedly said: "Therefore, one should schools do not open." Conflicted was him by
Prof. Reinhard Berner, head of the University Hospital of Dresden
seem younger "children to be less susceptible to the virus and pass it on rare - showing the majority of Studies, ”said Berner, who had evaluated a study with 800 infected children.
Charité virologist Drosten
reported in the switch about the
virus mutation
in South Africa and England.
"You have to take the virus seriously," said
Drosten
about the
mutation
in Great Britain.
However, science does not yet know much about its origin and whether the new virus has already displaced the old one on the island.
Unlike planned, the switching takes over two hours, according to information from the
Bild
newspaper.
(kat) *
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