Health Minister Spahn and RKI boss Wieler appear again in front of the media.
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach dampens expectations.
Our news ticker about Corona in Germany.
Corona * situation in Germany: RKI * boss Wieler and Health Minister Spahn give an update.
The topic of the joint press conference is likely to be the vaccination campaign - when does it take place in medical practices?
SPD * health expert Karl Lauterbach has already given an assessment.
In this news ticker, we continuously report on the PK appointment this Friday from 10 a.m.
Berlin - The Corona crisis is currently a lot about family doctors in Germany.
They will certainly also be the subject of the joint press conference held by RKI boss Lothar Wieler and Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU *) this Friday.
The ministers had agreed on the recommendation to start corona vaccinations in family doctor's practices in mid-April - because there was not yet enough vaccine available for an earlier start.
The final decision will be made by Chancellor Angela Merkel * (CDU) and the country leaders based on the recommendation of the health ministers.
Corona in Germany: "When vaccinating and perfectionism stands in the way"
"Already now you could inoculate all vaccines in the practices", criticized Ulrich Weigeldt against the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
this line.
He is the head of the German Association of General Practitioners.
The result of the deliberations is "a disaster".
Vaccinating as quickly as possible is especially possible in doctors' offices.
Weigeldt spoke out in favor of closing the vaccination centers.
Prioritizing, inviting, registering and documenting - that would take far too much time and energy, also find the medical officers .. "In Germany we always want to do everything particularly neatly and thoroughly," said BVÖGD chairman Ute Teichert according to
dpa
.
"At the moment, thoroughness and perfectionism stand in the way of vaccination."
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Regularly provide information in a joint PK about the Corona situation in Germany: RKI boss Lothar Wieler (left) and Health Minister Jens Spahn.
© Michael Kappeler / dpa
Lauterbach on the family doctor debate: "Would have led to disappointments"
Karl Lauterbach, however, disagrees.
The SPD * health expert defended the later inclusion of general practitioners in the vaccination campaign.
“If we had already involved the resident doctors, it would have led to disappointment.
If a doctor can only vaccinate a few people a day, but 1000 are waiting for him, that only causes trouble. "
Lauterbach also expects that the corona vaccinations in the doctor's offices will start in mid-April - but with one restriction: "It will take until May before it can run in full in all countries," he told the newspapers of the
Funke media group .
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"Only then will we have enough vaccine."
The corona numbers in Germany put a damper on the Wieler-Spahn-PK: The RKI reported 12,834 new infections with the virus on Friday morning - 2000 more than a week ago.
The 7-day incidence * increased further to 72.4 (previous day: 69.1).
There were also 252 new deaths from or with Covid-19.
The R value was 1.04 (previous day 0.96).
If the R value is below 1 for a longer period of time, the infection rate subsides;
if it is consistently higher, the number of cases increases.
(AFP / dpa / frs)
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