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Christian Lindner: »I am not participating in the discussion about individual measures«
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The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the nationwide seven-day incidence on Wednesday morning at 238.1.
The day before, the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 199.9 (previous week: 207.0; previous month: 569.4).
However, the incidence does not provide a complete picture of the infection situation.
Experts have been assuming for some time that there will be a large number of cases not recorded by the RKI - mainly because by far not all infected people have a PCR test done.
Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics.
In addition, late registrations or transmission problems can lead to a distortion of individual daily values.
The health authorities in Germany recently reported 84,655 new corona infections (previous week: 54,957) and 145 deaths (previous week: 91) to the RKI within one day.
Here, too, comparisons of the data are only possible to a limited extent due to the test behavior, late registrations or transmission problems.
In general, the number of registered new infections and deaths varies significantly from weekday to weekday, as more and more federal states do not transmit to the RKI, especially at weekends, and report their cases later in the week.
The RKI has counted 26,583,016 infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections go undetected.
In the debate about the corona policy for the fall, FDP leader Christian Lindner made it clear that the planned scientific assessment of protective measures should first be awaited.
"I'm not taking part in the discussion about individual measures now, because then I would be assuming knowledge that you can't even have yet," said the Federal Minister of Finance on Tuesday evening on the ARD program "Maischberger".
"Because the scientists only now want to explain the effectiveness of individual measures to us." But it is clear to him: "There should no longer be any general restrictions on freedom."
In view of an expected new increase in corona cases in the colder season, there is currently discussion about which protective measures should be possible in autumn.
Green boss Omid Nouripour recently called for a rapid change to the Infection Protection Act.
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD), for example, advocates creating the possibility of making masks compulsory indoors again.
However, several FDP politicians had already insisted on first waiting for the evaluation of measures planned by the end of June.
With the amended Infection Protection Act, general mask requirements for events or when shopping, as well as 2G and 3G access regulations, have been abolished since the beginning of April.
For the time being, “basic protection” applies – for example with mask requirements in buses, trains, clinics, practices and nursing homes.
The current version of the law runs until 23 September.
The Federal Government's Corona Expert Council is presenting a statement in Berlin this Wednesday on the necessary preparations for autumn and winter.
It is expected that the experts working with the Chairman of the Board of Management of the Berlin University Hospital Charité, Heyo Kroemer, will provide information on further political steps.
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