“I don’t get it.” With these words, Andreas Mogwitz reacts to the resolutions of the new Saxon Corona Protection Ordinance, which the cabinet presented on Tuesday. The Dresden doctor and FDP health expert is head of a regional hospital and demands: “We need the courage to do the inevitable. And that’s a tough lockdown. “
Better an end with horror than horror without end is his motto. “Every day we wait leads to a prolonged pandemic. Therefore a lockdown is inevitable. You don’t pull the emergency brake after an accident, you pull it before it. And that time has now come, ”said Mogwitz.
Three weeks of absolute lack of contact
To stop the incidence development, it would take three weeks of absolute contact poverty. As early as November one would have seen that the breakwater lockdown had fizzled out. “Why does history have to repeat itself?” The medical staff are in the starting blocks, because it is clear: in two weeks the normal wards in the clinics will be full, in three weeks the intensive care units. You already know all of this from the Christmas season. Then there are the virus mutations. “That’s why the lockdown has to be even stronger. Just stopping relaxation when the limit of 1300 occupied normal beds is reached is not enough, ”explains the doctor.
Mogwitz does not accuse politicians of negligence. “It’s a tightrope walk. That’s politics: You negotiate and advise for weeks and months in order to satisfy everyone. That may help in normal times, but it doesn’t in a crisis situation. “
Saxony relies on a wide range of tests
Saxony’s Minister of Health Petra Köpping (SPD) announced on Tuesday that after Easter, specifically from April 11th, The loosening that is currently in place could be scaled back when 1,300 hospital beds are occupied by corona patients. “Then Click & Meet, shops and zoos would have to close again,” said Köpping.
Saxony is relying on a wide range of tests, said the health minister. A negative corona test among staff and customers will in future be a prerequisite for using, for example, hairdressing salons, foot care facilities, cosmetics, massage, tattoo and nail studios. DIY stores and garden centers, museums, galleries, zoos and botanical gardens can also continue to be visited under these conditions, said the minister.
From Christin Grödel
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