Corona summit is approaching: RKI presents draft of new rules - doctors with clear demands

Created: 01/04/2022, 4:14 PM

From: Anna-Katharina Ahnefeld

Another corona summit is due on Friday.

In keeping with the new Omikron variant.

Quarantine times will be one of the topics.

Berlin - The next Corona summit * is scheduled for Friday, January 7th. It is clear that the federal and state governments will agree new regulations in the fight against the corona pandemic. The meeting is all about the Omikron variant and a possible new regulation of the quarantine times. According to a report by the

newspaper, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) will even today present a draft for new quarantine and corona rules. It had already been announced earlier that the RKI is expected to make a recommendation before the Corona summit on Friday.

Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) has also already announced that a possible shortening of the quarantine is up for debate.

Another mutation from Cameroon has caused a stir since the beginning of the week.

In the run-up to the summit, Lauterbach spoke exclusively to

.

The Education and Science Union (GEW) advocates shortening the corona quarantine for teachers.

At the same time, GEW chairman Maike Finnern confirmed to the

the demand to keep the schools open in principle.

“Face-to-face teaching should be continued across the board,” said Finnern.

"It cannot be that children and adolescents are taught from home for weeks on end."

Corona summit on Friday: demand to shorten the quarantine - RKI numbers incomplete

The German Association of Towns and Municipalities (DStGB) is pushing for a solid database for the decisions.

“We need a solid database of information about the infection process as soon as possible.

Otherwise politics cannot decide, ”said DStGB general manager Gerd Landsberg of the

newspaper on Tuesday.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has been pointing out for days that the figures it recently published on new infections with the corona virus are incomplete.

Because of the holidays, fewer people were being tested and not all health authorities passed their data on, the institute said.

RKI President Lothar Wieler.

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A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior announced on Monday that the RKI would present reliable data on the current level of infection in Germany during the course of the week.

MPK: The federal-state meeting is dominated by the Omikron variant

Germany's leading clinic doctors are also calling for a shortening of the quarantine for corona infected people and their contact persons who work in important care areas.

"Those who have recovered and who have been vaccinated should be allowed to go back to work after seven days if they take a PCR test on the sixth day after finding an omicron infection and the result is negative," said Michael Weber, President of the Association of Leading Hospital Doctors (VlK), in conversation with the

.

For close contacts of Omikron-positives, the quarantine obligation should be dropped entirely if they are employed in the critical infrastructure, Weber said. If this group of people tested negative three days after the risk encounter and showed no symptoms, "no quarantine should apply," said the association president of the

. "The people will soon be urgently needed."

The doctor from Dachau justified his approach with the Omikron experience from other countries.

"Here too, very, very many people will be infected with the new Corona * variant in the foreseeable future," he said.

With the currently applicable rules "we would then come into a critical personnel situation, from the bus driver to the nursing staff".

It is therefore important that isolation and quarantine be "limited to the absolute minimum" for this group.

The shortening should only apply to vaccinated and convalescent people who work in important care areas.

In addition, it must be tested closely.