If the corona numbers continue to rise and the vaccination rate does not increase significantly, according to Karl Lauterbach, restrictions for unvaccinated people are unavoidable.
Kassel - The relaxed phase on the occasion of the corona pandemic seems to be drawing to a close: The number of cases has been increasing again - since the end of June.
Could strict rules then again threaten from autumn?
SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach * has commented on this.
“Autumn will definitely be more difficult,” Lauterbach explains in an interview with the news portal Watson.
This is mainly due to the delta variant of the corona virus *.
If the vaccination quota does not increase, "we cannot return to full normalcy," said the MP.
Karl Lauterbach comments on Corona rules: "We have to protect those who have not been vaccinated"
Strict measures, as decided at the federal-state conference *, could then be part of everyday life again.
This also means that from August 23, access to schools, restaurants, clubs, fitness studios or similar facilities will only be possible for those who have been vaccinated, those who have recovered or who have been tested.
"Until the vaccination rate is significantly higher," says Lauterbach, such rules must apply.
In this context, Lauterbach emphasizes that it is not the federal government's strategy to “make life more difficult for the unvaccinated.” Rather, most of the unvaccinated would become infected with the coronavirus within a short period of time without restrictions.
"We have to protect these people, most of them are not lateral thinkers - they simply have not yet decided to vaccinate because they are insufficiently or incorrectly informed," adds the health expert.
This also applies to children.
An official vaccination recommendation from the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) is still missing.
Video: Karl Lauterbach - "Unvaccinated people will all get infected"
Corona pandemic: Lauterbach supports the transition to the 2G rule
The SPD politician advocates a transition from the so-called 3G rule (vaccinated, recovered, tested) to the 2G rule (vaccinated, recovered). "As an epidemiologist, I would prefer if we switched to the 2G rule, especially for narrow, poorly ventilated rooms," said the 58-year-old. So far, however, there has been no political willingness to do so. Above all, if there is a high corona incidence, it will be more difficult in the future to treat tested and vaccinated people equally, believes the SPD health expert. And this despite the fact that the RKI has so far reported almost 11,000 vaccination breakthroughs in Germany - people who are symptomatically ill with corona despite being vaccinated. The symptoms differ, however, in vaccinated and unvaccinated people *.
Lauterbach does not expect that there will be another hard lockdown in autumn.
Should the number of cases continue to rise, however, “restrictions for unvaccinated people will no longer be avoidable.” Karl Lauterbach, on the other hand, considers a lockdown for vaccinated people to be “impossible”.
Due to the increasing number of cases, many fear stricter corona rules - also in the supermarket *.
Consumers must now pay attention to this.
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