In a global comparison, Germany is one of the most successful countries in combating the pandemic.
Because the outbreak was recognized very early, without already overloaded clinics and high mortality had given the starting signal for measures.
This was not the case in other countries.
Germany was one month ahead of Italy or Spain.
Previous successes in containing the SARS-CoV-2 virus could be gambled away, says the head of virology at the Charité in Berlin.
The easing could undo the positive development.
He regrets “seeing so much that we are just about to lose this lead here completely”.
The virologist Prof.
In the NDR podcast “Coronavirus Update” Christian Drosten spoke out against loosening public life.
The expert fears an uncontrolled spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Germany.
Previous successes in containment could be undone.
Virologist Christian Drosten: “We may lose our lead”
“I think the politicians meant it very well, you could see very well that you looked very carefully into the details of the loosening and were planning to limit the number of new infections.
“But that must not” slip away from us, that is very important now, “said Drosten.
In this connection, the virologist criticized the fact that entire shopping centers are now full of people because the individual shops in the shopping malls are smaller than 800 square meters.
“You have to ask yourself whether all of this really makes sense.
“We are in a very fragile area,” says the researcher.
“You can’t do that if you don’t want us to come back through R1.
R1 indicates the number of reproductions.
This means that on average, almost every corona infected person infects another person.
He kept getting emails from citizens asking him what individual interpretations should look like.
Drosten just warned of those “single designs” after the first loosening.
“When everyone starts to lay out their own scope for interpretation, freely, then new infection chains suddenly start in many places in Germany.
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Drosten would not be surprised if a situation suddenly emerged in May and June that “we cannot control if we are not careful”.
There could then be much more “starting points for the virus than at the beginning of the epidemic”.
(sb)
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