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Vaccination status boom at Corona summit? Expert advice on Lauterbach probably already agreed

2022-01-05T04:50:44.391Z


Vaccination status boom at Corona summit? Expert advice on Lauterbach probably already agreed Created: 01/05/2022, 05:44 AM 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. The news ticker. The next Corona * MPK is on Friday. Because of Omikron, new rules could be enacted. Markus Söder rai


Vaccination status boom at Corona summit?

Expert advice on Lauterbach probably already agreed

Created: 01/05/2022, 05:44 AM

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.

The news ticker.

  • The next Corona * MPK is on Friday.

    Because of Omikron, new rules could be enacted.

  • Markus Söder raised the shortening of the quarantine times to the core question of the MPK

    (see update from January 4, 5.45 p.m.).

    This already applies to one professional group

    (see update from January 4, 6.44 p.m.).

  • The government's expert council has agreed on an amendment to the vaccination status

    (see update from January 4, 9:03 p.m.).

  • This news ticker is updated regularly.

Update from January 4, 9:03 p.m.:

On Tuesday (January 4), the Federal Government's 19-member expert council met with Health Minister Karl Lauterbach for a video meeting.

According to

Spiegel

, however, the committee was unable to come to a joint decision.

In addition to the classification of the current corona situation, the implementation of a possible shortening of the quarantine time, the effects of the Omikron variant and booster vaccinations were discussed.

Apparently there was agreement that in future only people with three vaccinations should be considered fully vaccinated.

"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 as saying.

Therefore, they want to meet again either Wednesday (January 5th) or Thursday (January 6th) and then publish a recommendation. 

Health ministers of the federal states meet with Lauterbach before the federal-state summit

Update from January 4, 7:53 p.m.:

On Wednesday (January 5), the federal and state health ministers will meet at short notice for a video conference, as announced by the Saxony-Anhalt Ministry of Health.

The state has chaired the Conference of Health Ministers (GMK) since the beginning of the year.

In view of the growing wave of omicrons, a change to the corona quarantine rules is to be discussed at the video conference.

This means that the heads of department will meet before the Prime Ministers' consultations with Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Friday (January 7th).

Update from January 4th, 6.44 p.m.:

Already before

the next federal-state summit on Friday (January 7th) will be discussed eagerly.

A possible shortening of the quarantine time for people who tested positive for the coronavirus and their contact persons is under discussion.

For a professional group, this is even possible now.

According to a document from the Robert Koch Institute, exceptions apply to medical staff who have tested positive.

According to this, hospitals, for example, can consider shortening the 14-day quarantine in individual cases in the event of an "acute staff shortage".

This only applies to people with an easy course.

In addition, those affected must be symptom-free for 48 hours and two PCR tests must be negative within a minimum of 24 hours.

Before the federal-state summit: Söder calls for new quarantine regulations

Update from January 4, 5.45 p.m.:

Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder is calling for a shortening of the Corona quarantine regulations - following the example of other countries, such as France or Italy.

Söder raised the issue to the core question for the upcoming MPK on Friday.

“The traffic light now has to make suggestions on how to continue using Omikron.

The basis for this must be a scientifically sound assessment, ”said the CSU boss on Tuesday of the German Press Agency in Munich.

Above all, it is important to know whether the milder course will reduce the burden on the hospitals.

“It is necessary to revise the current quarantine regulations.

With a rapidly growing spread, we cannot quarantine the whole country at the same time, ”says Söder.

Update from January 4, 5:33 p.m.:

The Corona Expert Council met on Tuesday to discuss the current situation in front of the MPK (Friday).

After the meeting, the local representative in the council spoke out in favor of more uniform national regulations.

As an example, he cited access to gastronomy: “We see it in a circle that we have a real gastronomy run on other federal states, in which - unlike us in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - you don't need an additional negative corona test “, Says Stefan Sternberg.

"I think that will also be the subject of the Prime Minister's Conference on Friday," he added.

Before the corona summit: new tightening of rules?

Expert council member with assessment

Sternberg also confirmed that the consultations were also about possible changes to the quarantine time. However, he did not give any details.

However, it remains to be seen whether, in addition to standardizing the measures, new, stricter rules will be necessary, according to Sternberg. It is important that reliable data are available on the spread of the new virus variant. "We will only see after the weekend what effects the contact restrictions had over Christmas," said Sternberg. An initial inventory showed, however, that Germany is two weeks behind most other countries in terms of the spread of the Omikron variant. But you have to wait until more test results are available again and provide a more precise picture of the infection situation. "In the course of the next week we will see where the train is going and whether it is not necessary to go in again with further measures, or whether a standardization is sufficient."

Corona summit is approaching: RKI presents draft new rules

First report from January 4th:

Berlin - The next Corona summit * is due on 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

Bild

newspaper, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) will even today present a draft for new quarantine and corona rules.

It had already been announced 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

Merkur.de

.

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

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

editorial network Germany

the demand to keep the schools open in principle.

"The face-to-face teaching should be continued across the board," said Finnern.

"It cannot be that children and young people 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

Bild

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.

© Bernd von Jutrczenka / dpa

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

Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung

.

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

NOZ

. "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.

(aka with dpa and AFP) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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