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Corona rules in front of MPK on the test bench: CSU wants to change course - Lauterbach indicates major change

2022-01-21T12:14:16.975Z


Corona rules in front of MPK on the test bench: CSU wants to change course - Lauterbach indicates major change Created: 01/21/2022, 13:05 Markus Söder (CSU, r.), Prime Minister of Bavaria and CSU Chairman, and Markus Blume, CSU General Secretary (l.) (archive image) © Sven Hoppe/dpa In the opinion of CSU General Secretary Blume, the previous procedure must be put to the test because of the Omic


Corona rules in front of MPK on the test bench: CSU wants to change course - Lauterbach indicates major change

Created: 01/21/2022, 13:05

Markus Söder (CSU, r.), Prime Minister of Bavaria and CSU Chairman, and Markus Blume, CSU General Secretary (l.) (archive image) © Sven Hoppe/dpa

In the opinion of CSU General Secretary Blume, the previous procedure must be put to the test because of the Omicron variant.

When it comes to compulsory vaccination, the CDU is pushing.

Update from January 21, 12:30 p.m .:

The federal government wants to prepare Germany organizationally for the rapid growth of the omicron wave with expected hundreds of thousands of infected people per day. In addition to prioritizing the particularly safe PCR tests, a further concentration of contact tracing on important social areas is being considered, as a spokesman for Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) said on Friday in Berlin with a view to the upcoming Prime Ministers' Conference. The federal and state governments want to discuss further steps in the fight against the corona pandemic this Monday.

"We have to reckon with these increasing numbers of infections and have to adapt to them organizationally," said the spokesman. Changed quarantine and test rules ensure that public life can still take place safely, especially in critical infrastructure. These include the health care system, utilities and security authorities. A "bottleneck in the PCR tests, at least for the critical infrastructure" should be prevented. "And that's probably why we're concentrating contact tracing on important areas, as is already happening today," said the spokesman. 

Deputy government spokeswoman Christiane Hoffmann did not comment on the question of whether the prime ministers' conference on Monday would be preceded by deliberations by the federal government's Corona Expert Council. The spokesman for the health department confirmed the assessment that several hundred thousand new corona infections per day could be expected in mid-February. The assessment of the situation and the conclusions are the subject of the federal-state meeting.

Update from January 21, 10:25 a.m .:

Federal Minister of Education Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP) does not expect any new restrictions for schools from the federal-state group on Monday. "There is great agreement to keep the schools open," she told the

Passauer Neue Presse

on Friday. Everything must be done for this, since school students suffered greatly from school closures in the first waves of the pandemic.

If they are temporarily unable to attend classes due to quarantine, "schools must be able to provide them with a digital offer so that they can continue to attend classes," Stark-Watzinger continued. The goal remains to “keep the curve of new infections as flat as possible,” emphasized the minister. In the event of staff shortages as a result of the Omicron wave, there are precautions in the countries. “We need contingency planning in every school. If support from the federal government is required, we are ready to provide it.”

The corona pandemic had a negative impact on school leaving certificates, said Stark-Watzinger.

But she also stated: "Even before Corona, Germany should have done more to ensure its competitiveness and to counteract the blatant shortage of skilled workers." The new federal government is now taking countermeasures and must ensure "that learning deficits can be made up quickly".

In addition, the transition from school to work must be strengthened.

“In addition, the immigration of skilled workers remains of the utmost importance.

It must be simplified, not only in the academic field," said the FDP politician.

Before the Corona summit: Before the federal-state meetings, Weil speaks out against loosening – and tightening

Update from January 21, 10 a.m

.: Lower Saxony’s Prime Minister Stephan Weil spoke out against easing the corona pandemic before new top-level consultations by the federal and state governments – but also against tightening. The massively increasing incidences "already played a role, but we have to rethink a bit compared to the previous waves of infection," said the SPD politician on Friday in the ARD "Morgenmagazin". The number of infections is high, but the clinics are less burdened. "We're dealing with a new opponent, so you have to adjust your strategy accordingly."

The prime ministers of the federal states want to discuss further measures in the pandemic with Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) on Monday. Weil said: "We must not let the pandemic slip away." At the same time, in view of the changed situation, he spoke out against a "total lockdown". In particular, the hospitalization and the situation in the intensive care units are “not yet causing him to ponder”, even if the number of infections is increasing from day to day.

Because warned not to fool yourself.

According to the Omicron variant, the virus will not be out of the world: "We will have to deal with new virus forms." Only a high vaccination rate in society as a whole offers serious protection: "We will do it at the pace we have now, not make it.” The vaccination dynamics have decreased in the new year.

"We're making a mistake there," he said.

He spoke out clearly against the so-called contamination, which was cynical and meant that many people would end up in intensive care units and die.

Corona rules on the Omikron test bench: CSU makes wind in front of MPK - and wants to change course

First report from January 21, 8 a.m.:

Berlin – On Monday, January 24th, they will come together again: the federal and state governments to discuss the corona situation.

With a view to the Omicron variant, which is currently causing the numbers to shoot up, the CSU* is pushing for a reassessment of the corona measures.

“It is true that the fundamentals are changing with Omikron.

We need an omicron check for the Corona* management in Germany," said CSU General Secretary Markus

Blume

.

"The upcoming Prime Ministers' Conference can be an important milestone to talk about these things."

Before the Corona summit, Söder spoke up: "We have to react appropriately"

The very contagious Sars-CoV-2 variant Omikron has now established itself in Germany.

It causes a sharp increase in the number of new infections, but tends to be associated with milder courses than the delta variant.

Countries like Spain are therefore considering changing the corona strategy, also because the number of corona intensive care patients is not increasing as it is at Delta.

There are also advocates for this in Germany.

Politicians like the Green health expert Janosch Dahmen warn that Omikron is milder, but not harmless.

Experts also often refer to the comparatively high number of unvaccinated people in Germany and urge caution.

"We have to react appropriately," emphasized CSU boss Markus Söder* on Thursday evening in the ZDF program "maybrit illner".

But: “I think we have a new situation now.

And part of a smart policy is not simply to react in a stubborn or ideological way, or even to be personally motivated, but always to put the well-being of the country and the people in the foreground.”

Video on the current corona situation: Incidence rises above 700 for the first time

Corona in Germany: The federal and state governments will discuss the situation on Monday

Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach * expects a stress test for the hospitals in mid or late February.

According to the SPD politician, Germany will then be confronted with several hundred thousand newly infected people every day.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), on the other hand, expects that the maximum deflection of the omicron wave in Germany cannot be precisely measured by reporting data.

"However, the magnitude and the decisive trends in the epidemiological development are reliably displayed," wrote the RKI in its Corona weekly report published on Thursday evening.

The background to the temporarily incomplete recording of infected people is, for example, limited test capacities and human resources due to the high number of cases, it said.

MPK on Corona: Kretschmer (CDU) calls for a mandatory vaccination proposal from the traffic light government

Since the federal states have already pushed for progress in terms of compulsory vaccination at the past Corona summits, it can be assumed that it will be on the agenda again this time. In the coming week, the Bundestag wants to deal with compulsory vaccination in a first debate.

In the meantime, Saxony's Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer has called for a proposal from the federal government. "Introducing compulsory vaccination is a task for the coalition in Berlin," said the CDU* politician to the

editorial network Germany

. Therefore, the government must now vigorously advance with a proposal, promote its proposal and take others with it. “It cannot be that with this pandemic all unpleasant issues are weighted away to the federal states, the RKI or the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut. That's not how it works."

Kretschmer emphasized that politicians need leadership, especially when it comes to difficult issues.

The traffic light coalition should therefore quickly inform the population whether they are serious about introducing compulsory vaccination and whether they have a majority for it.

(dpa/cibo) *Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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