The hygiene rules due to the coronavirus are also having an effect elsewhere: The flu wave that will be common in Germany in spring 2021 will be completely eliminated.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Strict corona rules apply between Berlin and Bavaria.
Because of the hygiene measures, other infectious diseases are sometimes significantly decreasing.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is now publishing remarkable results on the flu.
Berlin - The results of the Berlin
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
with data as of March 9th on its website
are absolutely remarkable
.
Germany is fighting against the insidious corona virus with strict AHA and hygiene rules.
No shaking hands, distance rules in many places, hand washing, FFP2 masks in public places, ban on group meetings and so on.
The resistance to Covid-19 demands a lot from the citizens, but also has side effects.
Coronavirus pandemic: No flu wave in Germany - probably because of AHA rules
One of them is: The flu epidemic, which usually occurs in spring, will practically not occur at all in 2021.
It literally fails.
And according to RKI boss Lothar Wieler, the corona rules that strongly prevent other infectious diseases are responsible for this.
The boss of the federal authority confirmed this repeatedly at press conferences.
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The flu situation in Germany as of March 9th.
© Screenshot RKI
The results for 2020 were already very informative.
According to the RKI, 35 percent fewer people in Germany contracted the flu.
"The number of cases
of many other infectious diseases fell during the Covid-19 pandemic compared to previous years, ”Sonia Boender from the
Surveillance
Department
at the
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
told
the
Focus Online
news portal in January
.
Corona rules to contain the pandemic also pay off with a view to the flu
According to Boender, there is no doubt that the measures taken to contain the coronavirus pandemic play an essential role in this.
And: The trend is not only continuing, but is likely to intensify again.
The Working Group Influenza (
virus flu, d. Red
.) Of the RKI has now published a so-called summary of the current situation on the flu.
Accordingly, the values “in the 9th calendar week are still significantly below the previous year's values at this time”.
The activity of acute respiratory diseases, the so-called ARE rate, is also "still below the values of the previous season at an extremely low level".
The RKI refers to 2573 samples of patients with respiratory diseases, so influenza viruses were not detected in a single sample.
AHA rules against corona infections: According to the RKI, great effect on protection against the flu
To underline the findings, the RKI published a map of Germany on its website, which underlines the activity of the flu in Germany in the colors red (strongly increased) to dark blue (normal).
And: the entire map was whitewashed deep blue.
The AHA rules against corona infections - they also pay off as protection against the flu.
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