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Corona summit: new details on vaccination status - which rules should be changed

2022-01-05T07:26:25.110Z


Corona summit: new details on vaccination status - which rules should be changed Created: 01/05/2022, 08:11 AM From: Tobias Utz New rules are being discussed at the Corona summit - the situation in advance. Another Corona summit * will take place on Friday. Germany’s further steps in the pandemic will be advised under the leadership of Olaf Scholz *. The focus is on contact restrictions and a


Corona summit: new details on vaccination status - which rules should be changed

Created: 01/05/2022, 08:11 AM

From: Tobias Utz

New rules are being discussed at the Corona summit - the situation in advance.

  • Another Corona summit * will take place on Friday.

    Germany’s further steps in the pandemic will be advised under the leadership of Olaf Scholz *.

  • The focus is on contact restrictions and a shortening of the quarantine rules.

  • You can find an overview of the news on the Corona summit here.

+++ 8.00 a.m.:

The health ministers of the federal states meet on Wednesday to discuss measures in the run-up to the corona summit. A shortening of the quarantine is under discussion in order to be able to maintain important supply areas in the event that the number of infections should rise sharply due to the spread of the Omikron variant.

Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) wants to enforce tougher contact restrictions in addition to shortened quarantine times. "Unfortunately, tightening will be necessary in order to counter the heavy wave that is coming our way," he told the editorial network in Germany. "I will make suggestions." Lauterbach did not give details. However, he emphasized that there was no reason to give the all-clear, especially for unvaccinated people. "You cannot promise them that the contact restrictions will be lifted for them in the short or medium term," said the minister. "My appeal to the unvaccinated is that they get vaccinated at least once quickly so that they have at least an important protective effect for the very serious course of the disease."

Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach at a press conference.

(Archive photo) © Ronny Hartmann / AFP

Corona summit: vaccination status should be re-regulated

Update from Wednesday, January 5th, 2022, 7:00 a.m.:

Several details of what will be discussed at the Corona summit on Friday are already public.

For example, it should be about the status of fully vaccinated people.

After the meeting of the Federal Government's Expert Council on Tuesday, the committee was unable to reach a decision, but was largely in agreement on the point mentioned.

"We cannot yet say whether the measures have worked over Christmas because we will only see the development of the infections in the coming days," said expert council member Stefan Sternberg from the news magazine Spiegel.

Accordingly, in the future only people with three corona vaccinations should be considered fully vaccinated. So far this has been the case with two vaccinations and without a booster.

First report from Tuesday, January 5th, 2022, 9:00 a.m .:

Berlin - In the run-up to the Corona Summit *, which will take place on Friday (January 7th, 2022) in the form of a video link, the first details are already circulating about what the federal and state governments could advise. The reason for the deliberations is the spreading omicron variant of the coronavirus. Research expects that the highly infectious mutation will soon replace the previously dominant delta variant. So far, only a few aspects of the new Corona variant have been researched. A detail that is being investigated in numerous studies is the possible course of Covid-19 after an infection with Omikron. The latest data indicate a mild course *.

For this reason, among other things, shorter quarantine periods for boosted people, who are, for example, Omikron contact persons, are already being discussed before the Corona summit.

Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach * said on Sunday that there would be "new measures" in this regard.

The decision should be based on the scientific assessment and expertise of the new expert council of the Ampel-Coalition.

Together with the Robert Koch Institute, recommendations are to be drawn up that will be presented during the week.

Corona summit because of Omikron: Expert advice makes statement

The expert committee will meet on Tuesday (January 4th, 2022).

The recommendation of the researchers is eagerly awaited, as there is currently no concept for possible massive failures of the critical infrastructure.

For example, there are fears that Omikron infections could lead to personnel bottlenecks in the fire departments or the police. Virologist Christian Drosten * predicted as early as December 2021: “Omikron will lead to massive sick leave. Also in essential professional groups. ”Shortly before the turn of the year, the RKI warned of a“ sudden increase in the number of infections ”in January 2022.

Karl Lauterbach also said that the Omikron wave was expected at the start of the year.

Before the Christmas holidays, the modeler Dirk Brockmann, who advises the RKI among others, spoke of a “risk of cascading infrastructural failures”: “If synchronously, at massive speed and in large numbers, illness-related work absences take place, even if in these cases the course at best does not are difficult, this harbors the risk of cascading infrastructural failures, ”Brockmann said on Twitter.

Omikron: failure of critical infrastructure - experts warn

"The situation is very, very critical - and is not clearly communicated by politicians," warns Holger Berens, chairman of the board of the Federal Association for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures, to the news portal T-Online.de. Accordingly, it is conceivable that employees, for example from waterworks, isolate themselves permanently at work so as not to be absent for emergencies.

It is so far unclear whether the quarantine duration will actually be shortened for those who have been boosted.

Lauterbach's announcement sounds like it.

He took up the suggestion of the Bavarian Health Minister Klaus Holetschek, who had brought the measure into play.

Lauterbach recently commented on the possible end of the corona pandemic - and caused astonishment. * (Do with dpa / AFP)

* fr.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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