Since the health authorities can no longer keep track of contacts, facilities such as nursing homes should be prioritized.
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Berlin In many places, health authorities no longer see themselves in a position to track all contacts of infected people in view of the high number of cases in Germany. “The loads are enormous,” said Ute Teichert, chairwoman of the Federal Association of Doctors in the Public Health Service (BVÖGD), the Handelsblatt. “At the moment it is no longer possible in many places to reach and inform the contacts of infected people promptly,” said Teichert.
Many federal states have therefore foregoed contact tracing, “as we know it so far,” said Teichert. There, people who tested positive for the coronavirus would no longer be routinely contacted by the health authorities.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has been recommending that the health authorities focus contact follow-up on the protection of “people at increased risk of a severe course” since September. These are, for example, old people’s and nursing homes as well as larger outbreaks in schools and other facilities.
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