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Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health:
"We are at the beginning of a corona epidemic in Germany."
"I mean, we have an exceptional year, we have a pandemic of the century."
Chapter 1: Continuous Loop
knowledge
Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health:
"Status today"
Status at midnight "
" Status now status is this morning "
" Knowledge
status
now Friday morning "
" Status today 13.11.
can I make this statement. "
Wait
Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health:
. "The pandemic is far from over"
. "The virus is there, it stays there,"
"The pandemic is not over yet."
"The pandemic is obviously not only still there, but the fourth shaft it with full force. "
Act
Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health:
"We need to break this momentum."
"That's why we need to break this third wave."
"It also needs common state, decisive action to break this momentum."
"It now comes to the fourth wave together to break."
Vaccinate
Jens Spahn, Federal
Minister of
Health:
"Vaccination is the way out of the pandemic."
"Vaccination makes the decisive difference
."
Chapter 2: Persevere
Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health:
"This virus has an incredibly long skid marks."
"That is why it demands a lot of patience from us."
"He will have to go on for many more months than just weeks."
"This crisis is not a sprint, it is a marathon. "
" Don't call us, we call you. "
" That means we still have to prepare for a few very challenging weeks. "
" We have very difficult weeks ahead of us. "
" It's ten past twelve. "
" It is now half past twelve.
But the wake-up call still hasn't arrived everywhere. "
Chapter 3: Misjudgments
Second wave
Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health:
“Incidentally, that doesn't mean that we automatically have to expect a second wave in autumn and winter.
Because I have just mentioned the measures that we as a society can prevent together. "
" A second wave, which is expressly not excluded, will not come suddenly, but turn around if we saw it coming.
That is when we test and are vigilant and attentive.
And my impression is that we are in all 27 member states. "
" There are 1,129 deaths this morning alone.
1125 families will experience this turn of the year in mourning. "
Lockdown
Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health:
. "And I put above all on reason and not first and foremost on Prohibitions"
'And so it also needs nationwide uniform additional measures without a doubt.
Better sooner than later. ”
“ It takes a lockdown to break the current wave. ”
AstraZeneca
Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health:
. "Nothing is more important, especially in vaccinating as confidence,"
"I'll even when it's my turn, like to get vaccinated with the AstraZeneca vaccine immediately."
"I regret that on this basis - now knowledge Friday morning - some countries in the European Union have suspended vaccination with AstraZeneca. «
» Due to a current recommendation by the Paul Ehrlich Institute, the federal government is suspending corona vaccination with AstraZeneca. «
» It is the common goal of the federal government and everyone 16 federal states that vaccinations with AstraZeneca in Germany can start again tomorrow during the day. "
Fourth wave
Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health:
“It gives us a high probability that we will recover, be tested, vaccinated, especially indoors - well through autumn and with the simple AHA rules in the interior, in local public transport, in long-distance traffic and with the 3G Winter can come. "
" Well, we are in a position where the ticker report can be produced again, but where nothing should be ruled out. The only question is whether we shouldn't be much better off avoiding getting into such situations and such need for decisions. "
“That means that significantly more contact restrictions are needed, that is, consistent 2G plus, as we have been calling for for over three weeks, by the way.
That means at least the cancellation of major events and celebrations.
More contact restrictions are needed nationwide. "
Compulsory vaccination
Jens Spahn, Federal Minister of Health:
"We will definitely have no mandatory vaccinations, even in schools or kindergartens."
"It will be a voluntary vaccination."
"It will be a voluntary vaccination.
From my point of view that's enough. "
" I give you my word.
There will be no compulsory vaccination in this pandemic.
Finally
stop saying
otherwise. "
" Well, you know my fundamentally very skeptical attitude towards a general vaccination requirement. I also took my word for it on this question.
That will also determine my voting behavior, and in this respect the question of enforcing the implementation must be addressed primarily to those who work out and introduce the corresponding draft law. "
And now?
Karl Lauterbach, designated Federal Minister of Health:
“We have to fight this pandemic.”
“The pandemic will last longer than many think.”
“Vaccination will play the central role, but not only.”
“We will win the fight
against
the pandemic and for it we will be better equipped for further pandemics than we were for these. "
