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Lockdown: Doctors reckon with the federal government's corona policy - "For the high death rates ..."

2021-01-13T09:37:41.812Z


Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Germany will have to prepare for a hard lockdown that will last for months. A health expert sharply criticizes Angela Merkel's federal government for its corona policy in this situation.


Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Germany will have to prepare for a hard lockdown that will last for months.

A health expert sharply criticizes Angela Merkel's federal government for its corona policy in this situation.

  • Coronavirus pandemic in Germany

    : The number of

    Covid-19 cases

    is still

    very high nationwide

    at the beginning of 2021 despite

    strict Corona rules

    *

    and a

    tough lockdown

    *

    .

  • The

    Corona

    * lockdown

    could still take months - also because the

    vaccinations against the

    corona

    virus are making

    slow progress.

  • A doctor is

    now sharply

    criticizing the

    Corona

    * policy

    and the

    lockdown

    * strategy of

    the Federal Government of

    Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)

    *

    .

Munich / Berlin - The

Corona

* policy of

the Federal Government of

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) *

has been the subject of sometimes sharp criticism for weeks.

From the political opposition in

Berlin

, but also from other senders.

Now a doctor and health expert has followed up on alleged shortcomings in the strategy to

contain the coronavirus *

.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Sharp criticism of the federal government's corona policy

"The

epidemic

was triggered by a virus, that's clear," said medical professor Matthias Schrappe of the

picture

and said: "But

politics is responsible

for the high death rates only among the

elderly

and the very

old

."

Schrappe is now not just anyone, but was once the vice-chief of the Advisory Council on Health.

In his opinion, the federal government decided "against expert advice to only rely on

lockdowns

and

to forego

specific

protective measures for the elderly

," Schrappe explained his criticism.

This strategy had "crashed" and the consequences were "catastrophic", the doctor continued.

Corona pandemic in Germany: should Covid-19 risk groups have been better protected?

In his view, the

Covid-19

* risk groups should have been

better protected against the virus and infections.

Merkel had repeatedly emphasized in recent months that she

did not want to exclude

the

risk groups

.

There is now a debate going on about whether this has not allowed them to be adequately protected.

(pm) * Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network

Source: merkur

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