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The press conference of the RKI-heads at a Glance

  • RKI-chief to the Mouth guard debate: “will you not Help to protect the mask carrier itself
  • ” The recommendation for the population was not changed
  • “assume that it is underestimated”: Wieler believes in the further increase of the death rate

top news (10.00 am) at: , The head of the Robert Koch-Institute, Lothar Wieler, has spoken at a press conference on the current situation in Germany. “The reported Numbers continue to increase,” said Wieler and referred to in the daily new infections in the Federal Republic of Germany.

48 years, the Corona-Infected of age in Germany at the Moment, on average, where men and women are almost affected equally often. The death rate had increased to 1.2 percent. “We have to assume that more people will die and this Rate further increases,” warns the RKI-chief. How high they would rise, not can he say but. FOCUS Online/Wochit Lothar Wieler, Director of the Robert-Koch-Institute, speaks at a press conference.

be It the reproduction rate of the infection managed to press one. An infected man to put for some days in Germany on average only one other people, the RKI-President. The measures to contain the Coronavirus outbreak in Germany according to estimates by the Robert Koch Institute, i.e. a measurable effect. A transcript that is not yet.

masks-recommendation for population change? The RKI-chief knows nothing about it

Also on the topic of masks, said Wieler: “in Order to protect themselves and others from infection, remains to keep the most Important gap,” says the head of the Robert Koch-Institute. Fabric masks “could help to protect others. the But they do not help to protect the mask makers themselves.” For external protection, there is scientifically no evidence. “If you are sick, please don’t go shopping – not even with a textile mask.” The worst thing that could happen is that the masks “would fake a false sense of security”. the carry The recommendation to the Mask “we have not changed,” says Wieler on a demand – “not for the population”.

“We always had the same strategy,” says Wieler on the question of a modified Plan in Germany. “Slowing the spread. The is also managed.” To says the infections in the nursing staff of the RKI-chief, that “if a medical professional is infected, it may not, of course, continue to work.” The Problem was, but “protective clothing” is missing.

If the death rate in Germany are overestimated, you will be asked Wieler. “We even assume that it is underestimated,” he concludes. Often you could not prove the Virus, if you are Dead obduziere that have died. Antibody Tests called the RKI-chief “it is important to know how many people are healed.” To learn how to immunity, it’ll take a few weeks. At 350,000 Tests in the past week, the positive rate was eight percent.

For the evaluation of Stephan Willich, the Virus was only for a certain group of the population is dangerous Wieler said that “the risk for a specific group, namely the Elderly, was bigger”. You know already from the beginning. However, it could also be for young people to some extent dangerous. “Some of them can become seriously ill.” The idea to involve the Healed in the control of Covid-19, find Wieler well. “We have a lot of thoughts.” A specific model was not there but still.

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