In an Interview with the weekly newspaper “time” advocate of the virologist Alexander Kekulé, and the Economist Clemens Fuest together for an early exit from the Lockdown in Germany. “But it’s not an Option to keep Europe for a year or even six months in Lockdown,” says Kekulé. “In three to four weeks, you could start to open up. Until then, we need a strategy.“

Clemens Fuest warns that the economic costs of the lock downs in the time to rise to the expiration disproportionately. To extend “the Lockdown after a month, a week, is already expensive, but when it comes to three months, it is much more expensive,” says Fuest of “time”.

Both call for mouth protection is mandatory. “It needs something, so that people are ready to go to work,” says Fuest. “The masks could be something. If it requires across the Board simple masks are to be worn, that would be not only in the medical protection, but also a Signal, out confidence.“

Kekulé, criticized the attitude of the authorities to the Mouth guard. “I find it very terrible that the Robert Koch Institute still holds to the fact that these masks would bring nothing. That’s not true: First of all, to protect others. On the other, one protects oneself.“ Image: dpa virologist Alexander Kekulé, offers a concept of the Corona-crisis, largely without the restrictions of the basic to survive rights. All the important messages to the Coronavirus in the FOCUS Online Newsletter. Subscribe now.

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