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Health Minister Karl Lauterbach in Berlin at the beginning of December
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Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) is confident about the development of the corona pandemic in the coming months.
"Hopefully the coming winter will be the last major battle with the corona virus," said the politician to the "Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin".
The virus had "mutated into a dead end," explained the minister.
Lauterbach wants to stick to his cautious line, he does not give the all-clear: “There is no reason for carelessness.
It's too early to relax further,' he said.
In the short message service Twitter, he wrote that not wearing a mask or isolation at the moment shows “too little consideration for all the people who would become seriously ill in the event of an infection”.
Chancellor speaks of "much more relaxed situation"
Similar to Lauterbach, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) is optimistic about the coming months.
"It's a much more relaxed situation than before," Scholz said after the federal-state conference on Thursday.
The corona pandemic is not over yet.
There are also major problems with other respiratory diseases at the moment.
Unlike in previous years, however, there is now a “very extensively vaccinated population” in Germany, according to the Chancellor.
Therefore, the country could go into this winter "very well".
This time, the top group of federal and state governments did not make any concrete decisions on pandemic policy.
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