When will the coronavirus pandemic finally end?
When will Germany return from lockdown to normalcy?
If it is up to a medic, very soon.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: The
hard corona lockdown
has been extended until March 28th
.
The number of Covid 19 cases remains high because of the corona mutants - the vaccinations are slow.
According to Chancellery Minister Helge Braun (CDU), a doctor is now hoping that
the coronavirus pandemic will end soon.
Munich / Berlin - Bum!
The union of the CDU and CSU crashes in the polls.
And Chancellery Minister Helge Braun, close confidante of Chancellor Angela Merkel (both CDU), reacted promptly with a steep thesis.
“In the summer” Germany will return to normality from the corona lockdown, explained the 48-year-old Hesse in an interview with the
WAZ
: “Under two conditions: The vaccine manufacturers keep their delivery promises.
And there is no mutant who questions the whole success of the vaccination. "
Corona in Germany: end of pandemic possible in midsummer?
Is it suddenly going much faster after all?
Because the social pressure is increasing, while the satisfaction with the corona crisis management decreases significantly?
"If we have given everyone in Germany a vaccination offer, then we can return to normality in all areas," Braun continued and promised: "Then we will return to normality in full.
And all restrictions fall. "
Then we will have defeated the pandemic by the end of September.
Intensive care physician Gernot Marx from DIVI
Political calculation or not: The Merkel intimate is apparently not alone in his assessment.
“Then we will have defeated the pandemic by the end of September,” said Gernot Marx, head of the intensive care medicine association
DIVI *
, the newspapers of the
Funke media group
: “It is even possible that we will be in midsummer
are so far. "
Coronavirus in Germany: Apparently chances of an early end to the Covid-19 pandemic
According to the doctor, there are two buts: First, the citizens will continue to adhere to the corona rules in Germany in a disciplined manner until then;
Second, vaccinations against Covid-19 will be significantly accelerated in the Federal Republic.
Conditions for an end to a pandemic in midsummer according to intensive care doctor Gernot Marx:
1. Until then, people in Germany will adhere to the Corona rules in a disciplined manner.
2. The vaccinations against the coronavirus will be significantly accelerated.
The reason for his forecast?
According to Marx, data from Israel would “show with great certainty” that those who had been vaccinated would no longer be infected and that others could “no longer be infected”.
Marx suggests a kind of transition phase: “Wherever many people meet, for example when shopping
or in church services, masking should be required
continue to apply for a while. "
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: folk festivals like the Cannstatter Wasen in autumn 2021?
During the week, the interview with a German mayor caused a stir.
“As an optimist, I expect a real Cannstatter Volksfest to take place again in September,” said the new Stuttgart city hall chief Frank Nopper (CDU) of the
Stuttgarter Zeitung
and the
Stuttgarter Nachrichten
(behind a payment barrier): “I'll get a witty opening speech try my best. "
To put it into perspective: An average of four million visitors flock to the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart in autumn.
So a quick way back to normal?
With thousands of people in marquee tents soaked in beer fumes?
Corona lockdown: when will Germany return to normal?
Different opinions
Certainly a fervent wish of many German citizens, the long lockdown has long left deep marks in Germany.
But there are also experts who are close to the virus - and expect normality only at a later point in time.
Ugur Sahin, corona vaccine developer at the Mainz-based pharmaceutical company BioNTech, spoke in an interview with the British
BBC that the
pandemic would not end until November or December 2021. However, his interview was
three months
ago.
Will the hopes of normality soon begin to really move?
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