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SPD health expert Lauterbach: "We have to introduce 2G across the board, immediately."
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The number of new corona infections in Germany is increasing significantly, and the seven-day incidence has recently reached new highs every day.
Presenter Sandra Maischberger had invited the SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach to her talk show to discuss the situation.
He demanded very clearly: "We have to introduce 2G across the board, immediately."
At the same time, there must be drastic penalties if corona access rules for vaccinated and convalescent people (2G) are not checked.
“That has to be strictly controlled.
If, for example, a restaurant 2G does not control and then it is noticed during the control - closure for six weeks, "said Lauterbach on the ARD program" Maischberger.
The week".
The SPD politician emphasized: "Without the courage to introduce 2G across the board, drastically and with strict controls, we will not be able to get this wave under control."
Lauterbach and the FDP health expert Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus also spoke out in favor of employers being allowed to query the vaccination status of their employees in the future.
The two possible coalition partners announced that there will still be a draft for the Bundestag on the right to information.
He was of the opinion "that there must be the right to information in this catastrophic situation," said Lauterbach.
The corona pandemic is spreading "in a dramatic way," said government spokesman Steffen Seibert on Wednesday.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the health authorities reported a record of 39,676 new infections in one day.
The number of new cases per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days peaked at 232.1 for the third day in a row.
The regional range of the seven-day incidence is wide: it ranges from 82.2 in Schleswig-Holstein to more than 450 in Thuringia and Saxony.
"We now have a real emergency situation at the moment," said the Berlin virologist Christian Drosten in view of the situation in the intensive care units in the NDR podcast.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday evening: "We need a nationwide effort here again." A prime ministerial conference with the federal and state governments must be held as soon as possible, "in order to carry out harmonious, identical behavior and identical measures in Germany."
The virus does not take into account "whether we currently have a governing government, whether we are currently negotiating coalition," said Merkel.
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