The number of corona cases in Germany has been increasing dramatically for weeks.
RKI boss Lothar Wieler is already warning of the fifth wave.
Berlin - The corona pandemic has been making the headlines since spring 2020.
But this has been particularly true in the past few weeks, as the number of new infections with Sars-CoV-2 has skyrocketed.
The Robert Koch Institute and many other experts have been warning of overloading the health system for some time.
The intensive care units are full in many places, and the clinics see little room for maneuver in emergencies.
Lothar Wieler, head of the RKI, warned days ago of the next big catastrophe.
in Germany.
Corona situation in Germany: RKI boss warns of fifth wave of pandemics
More and more people are currently infected with the coronavirus, on Wednesday (November 24th, 2021) the RKI reported an incidence value of over 400. A sad high, never before had so many people become infected within 24 hours as last.
While many intensive care physicians have to adjust to the triage in hospitals, RKI boss Wieler is already daring to look ahead.
He told the
German Press Agency
that Germany might have to adjust to a fifth wave.
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Lothar Wieler in a live switch with Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer.
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The President of the Robert Koch Institute has been calling for weeks to adhere to the AHA rules and avoid unnecessary contacts.
More and more federal states are now trying to break the currently fourth corona wave through restrictions.
While hard restrictions for unvaccinated people have been in place in Bavaria since Wednesday, November 24th, NRW is also trying hard to rely on the 2G rule.
Corona in Germany: RKI boss warns urgently - is it already too late?
"If the reduction in contacts and the vaccination do not succeed intensively, we will also get a fifth wave according to the current modeling," said Wieler of the
German press agency
. “The rest of the winter depends heavily on what happens now.” In order to defuse the current situation, according to Wieler, “nationwide” contacts in Germany would have to be restricted. “In the federal states where the numbers are still low, we have the chance to keep the numbers low with contact restrictions. Where the numbers are high, it is actually very late, if not too late. "
Regarding the late reaction of politics to the fourth corona wave, Wieler told Die
Zeit
that it was “remarkable that you obviously have to put your hand on the hot stove again and again to notice that you get burned. That's sobering, nothing Question. "
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