The virologist Christian Drosten sees Germany in an “emergency situation” with Corona and holds new contact restrictions for conceivable. “We have to do something right now,” said the head of virology at the Berlin Charité on Tuesday in the NDR podcast “The Coronavirus Update” on the current corona situation in Germany.
In the medium and long term, the way out of the pandemic is clear: “We must close the vaccination gaps. ”The“ ideal goal ”must be“ a population that has been completely vaccinated three times over ”. Thereon In view of the full intensive care units, one could not wait. In the short term, measures must be discussed again, “which we actually hoped to have behind us,” said Drosten.
He expects an sEither a strenuous winter “with new, let’s say calmly: shutdown measures“. Measures such as 3G or even 2G are probably not enough to reduce the number of infections enough in view of the delta variant.