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Jens Spahn (archive picture): "You shouldn't exclude anything in this situation, as bitter as it is"
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A nationwide incidence at the 400 mark, plus significantly higher numbers, including in eastern Germany: Germany is further and further away from an improvement in the corona situation.
Nevertheless, a not inconsiderable minority still refuses to be vaccinated against the virus.
The acting Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) turned to this group with the following announcement in the »Rheinische Post«: »There are still those who believe that the virus cannot harm them. I would like to drag these people to an intensive care unit and ask them in the face of suffering: What still has to happen for you to understand? "
The CDU politician thinks it is possible to bring forward the next prime ministerial conference planned for December 9th.
“We'll have to act sooner.
We can see that the situation is very serious in Saxony, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Thuringia.
We will probably have to move patients on a large scale within Germany for the first time.
We haven't had that before in the pandemic.
That will be a big challenge. «Stricter measures for events, bars and clubs would have to be examined.
When asked whether he ruled out a partial lockdown, Spahn said: "You shouldn't exclude anything in this situation, as bitter as it is." However, it is important that everything is done to avoid closings of daycare centers and schools.
Lockdown for people without a vaccination?
The CDU chairman Friedrich Merz suggested a lockdown for unvaccinated people in view of the number of infections.
"Those who have not been vaccinated or recovered can only go to the pharmacy, the supermarket and the doctor," said Merz to the editorial network in Germany.
Unvaccinated people would then no longer be able to work: "With a consistent 2G regulation, access to the company and the workplace would only be possible for vaccinated and genesis-based people - with all the consequences," says Merz.
The following must apply: "No more unvaccinated people in the office, no more unvaccinated soccer players on the lawn, no more unvaccinated MPs in the Bundestag, no more unvaccinated students in the classroom."
Transfer of intensive care patients begins
It was only on Tuesday evening that it became known that numerous federal states were starting the strategic transfer of intensive care patients.
As the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (Divi) announced on Tuesday evening, a "larger number" of patients from Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxony, Berlin and Brandenburg will be relocated to other "clover-leaf regions" over the next few days.
The so-called cloverleaf concept was developed during the pandemic in order to facilitate the distribution of patients when there was a high regional utilization of intensive care units.
The 16 federal states are divided into five groups - the North, East, South, Southwest and West clovers.
Bavaria forms the clover leaf south, the states of Thuringia, Saxony, Berlin and Brandenburg are in the clover leaf east.
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