Saxony's hospital coordinator Michael Albrecht has called for a 14-day lockdown in order to get the drastically increasing corona infection numbers in the Free State under control.
“My personal recommendation would be: Do a total lockdown for 14 days now.
Let's take a breath, let's see how the development of the number of cases will then weaken, "said the medical director of the Dresden University Hospital on Wednesday evening during an online discussion with the Saxon Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer (CDU).
Dresden - At the moment, the dynamics of corona infection are unchecked and it will take a long time for the numbers of infected people to decline.
The previous measures would not have brought anything, as the numbers of patients in the hospitals showed.
The forecasts assumed that the number of corona patients in the clinics and intensive care units would continue to rise - according to forecasts to more than 2800 patients in total in the hospitals and 550 intensive care patients in two weeks.
"Then we are worse than we were in December last year, where we really did fly 60 intensive care patients from Saxony to other federal states in heroic actions shortly before Christmas," said Albrecht.
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"Salami tactics" - that is, weakened measures - led to the fact that you chase after the infection, said Albrecht. That is why a lockdown is now better so that you can find your way back to normal life “with graduated regulations” before Christmas. Albrecht said he didn't enjoy it either. But: "In principle, we are already standing with our backs in front of the wall."
The Leipzig infectiologist Christoph Lübbert warned that the ideal way out of the pandemic was vaccination - but this did not ease the current situation.
“It is now strictly again: keep your distance, observe hygiene rules, ventilate and, above all, wear a mask.
In addition, test a lot, reduce contacts, online meetings, home office, preferably no major events, ”said the head of the Infection and Tropical Medicine division at the Leipzig University Hospital of the“ Leipziger Volkszeitung ”(Thursday).
Because of the aggravated Corona situation, contact restrictions and stricter access rules in many areas will come into force in Saxony this Friday.
A visit to the hairdresser, the fitness studio or a club is then only possible with proof of 2G (vaccinated or recovered).
Members of a household are only allowed to meet with one other person.
Vaccinated, convalescent, children and adolescents up to the age of 16 do not count.
Saxony reached the overload level for its hospital beds on Wednesday.
On Wednesday 1520 occupied beds were reported, on Tuesday it was 1524 and on Monday 1391. dpa
