Medical Association President calls corona isolation obligation "disproportionate" - fear of Covid-19 decreases
Created: 2022-11-15, 09:08
By: Momir Takac
Klaus Reinhardt, President of the German Medical Association.
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After four federal states want to abolish the corona isolation obligation, the measure is becoming increasingly popular in Germany.
Düsseldorf/Berlin – Infections with the corona virus continue to decline in Germany.
On Tuesday morning (November 15), the RKI gave the nationwide seven-day incidence as 212.
Yesterday it was 216.7, in the previous week it was 283, in the previous month it was 732.
Not only because of the falling number of infections, but also because the course of the disease is mostly mild, four federal states rushed forward and announced that they wanted to abolish the corona isolation requirement: Bavaria, Hesse, Schleswig-Holstein and Baden-Württemberg.
In Bavaria, the mask requirement on buses and trains could soon be dropped.
End of the corona isolation obligation for the President of the Medical Association Reinhardt "justifiable"
Criticism came promptly from Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach, but the federal states also justified the step with experiences from abroad, where there is no longer an obligation to separate and no negative findings are known.
The President of the German Medical Association sees it that way too.
In view of the falling number of infections and the predominantly mild course of the disease, an obligation to isolate is disproportionate and its end is therefore justifiable, Klaus Reinhardt told the
Rheinische Post
.
Pandemic wave: The fear of corona continues to decrease in Germany
"This is also shown by the experience of other European countries that have already taken this step," said Reinhardt, who also called for a "uniform procedure nationwide".
The virologist Hendrik Streeck considers the corona isolation obligation to be “no longer effective”.
Meanwhile, the fear of contracting Corona in Germany continues to decrease.
In a representative study by the Forsa Institute on the most feared diseases, 18 percent of those surveyed stated that they were most afraid of Covid-19.
That is just under half as many as in the first Corona year 2020, when the infection was the greatest health threat for 37 percent.
Last year, Covid-19 triggered a particularly high level of fear in only 20 percent of those surveyed.
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