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Debate before the Corona summit: Top virologists with tough demands - area restrictions under discussion

2021-01-05T14:50:23.118Z


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.


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) *

Merkur.de and tz.de part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network.

List of rubric lists: © Bernd von Jutrczenka / POOL / AFP

Source: merkur

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