The draft for the new Infection Protection Act provides for a departure from the incidence value.
The hospitalization rate takes its place.
However, the leaked paper does not answer all of the questions.
Munich - What corona measures can we expect in autumn? In order to take account of the increasing vaccination rate, the federal government has drawn up a draft for an amended Infection Protection Act. The draft law should be presented to the Federal Council by next Monday at the latest, and the
world
has already received it today. In the paper, the incidence value is abolished as the exclusive criterion for measures to contain the corona pandemic *. The hospitalization rate will play an important role in this regard in the future - however, crucial questions remain unanswered.
Die
Welt
quotes from the draft law by the CDU * / CSU * and SPD *: "The number of new infections with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days is no longer a central benchmark because of the progress in vaccination." Incidence values *, beyond which the authorities have to intervene, are “no longer up-to-date”.
This applies to the incidence values 35 and 100, as well as “especially for the threshold value of over 50”.
Corona: Draft for the new Infection Protection Act - hospitalization rate instead of incidence value
According to
Welt, the
decisive factor for protective measures against corona in the
future will be “in particular” the rate of hospital treatments - the so-called hospitalization rate. It is calculated in a similar way to the incidence value and shows the number of hospital cases per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days. On Tuesday (August 24), the nationwide hospitalization rate was 1.38. Last winter, according to the federal government, the quota reached values of more than 10 in some cases. However, the draft leaves open when measures are to be taken.
Two further questions remain unanswered: On the one hand, there is no value for the rate.
From when hospitals are considered to be overloaded remains unclear.
On the other hand, it says in the draft that the hospitalization rate should only be “a measure of several”.
However, the draft does not reveal which other parameters should decide on measures to contain the corona pandemic in the future.
New Infection Protection Act: Lauterbach believes that the incidence move away is "wrong signal"
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach has spoken out against turning away from incidence as an important corona value.
The planned reorganization sends "the wrong signal", as if the incidence was no longer important and one only had to look at the number of hospital admissions, Lauterbach told the TV broadcaster Phoenix on Monday.
"I think that's wrong, because many of those who fall ill and do not have to go to hospital are seriously ill and suffer long-term damage."
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