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Bremen virologist: “No reason to throw corona measures overboard”

  • Virologist Dotzauer warns against lifting all corona measures
  • Health Senator Bernhard wants threshold planning
  • Mayor Bovenschulte considers easing to be appropriate

The Bremen virologist Andreas Dotzauer criticizes that all far-reaching corona protection measures are expected to be lifted from March 20th. Looking at the numbers, there is no reasonable reason to throw all measures overboard.

Lifting all measures can only seem plausible to people who ignore reality and indulge in the fantasy that nothing will happen over the summer months.

Andreas Dotzauer, Bremer Virologe

In fact, the infection process in the state of Bremen has recently picked up speed again. The seven-day incidence rose to 843 in the city of Bremen on Saturday and 1,246 in Bremerhaven. A week ago these values ​​were 667.5 (Bremen) and 883 (Bremerhaven).

The federal government has set criteria with which the states can tighten the measures again after March 20th. But they are quite vague and it is still unclear how Bremen will deal with them.

Mayor and health senator at odds

Especially since Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte (SPD) and Health Senator Claudia Bernhard (Die Linke) do not agree. Bovenschulte recently stated that he considers the planned easing to be appropriate. “In the current situation, I think that’s a responsible regulation,” he said to buten un binnen. However: “Should the pandemic situation change fundamentally in the future and there is a threat of a nationwide overload of the health system, the federal legislature would have to make improvements again.”

Bernhard (Die Linke) sees it completely differently. “We’re seeing increasing numbers of cases all over Germany, and then there’s not even the possibility of making a decision about the obligation to wear a mask indoors?” she said buten un binnen. Buten un binnen she said she didn’t think the plans for after March 20 were appropriate at all.

Further discussion in the Senate

The Bremen Senate meets on Tuesday. Bernhard wants the Bremen state government to commission its authority to develop “threshold value planning” in the event that “incidences continue to rise, this is noticeable in the clinics and a quick reaction is required,” she said Interview with the “Weser-Kurier”. The federal and state governments meet on Thursday. It cannot be ruled out that the rules will be made more precise or tightened again.

This topic in the program:
buten un binnen, 12. März 2022, 19:30 Uhr

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