the Virologist Klaus Stöhr considers it necessary to reassess the corona measures in the light of the omicron variant, but warns against loosening them too far. “To me, opening everything now sounds a bit like driving from the right-hand ditch into the left-hand ditch. Somewhere the lane is in the middle and I think they find other countries better,” said Stöhr on the RBB broadcaster on Thursday evening.
However, in view of the many less severe courses of the disease and the high immunization rate in Germany, it is by no means right to “continue as we have been for the past year and a half,” emphasized Stöhr. the Omicron variant is spreading rapidly goes Indeed tends to be associated with milder courses than the delta variant. Countries like Spain are therefore considering changing the corona strategy, also because the number of corona intensive care patients is nowhere near as high as in the delta wave.
Before top-level consultations by the federal and state governments, the number of those who are pushing for a reassessment of the corona measures is increasing. The federal and state governments want to discuss protective measures in the Corona crisis on Monday.