Third wave: "The worst was over at the end of April"

As head of the Robert Koch Koch Institute (RKI), Lothar Wieler is not a man for good news in the corona pandemic.

However, what he and his colleagues published in the latest management report on Friday evening sounded like a horror vision even by his standards.

The third wave is already here - and could flood the whole country at Easter.

A more dramatic situation threatens than before the lockdown in December.

Wieler's pessimistic forecast is controversial.

Also with Hasan Alkas, a renowned economics professor at the Rhein-Waal University of Applied Sciences in Kleve. He does a different incidence calculation for WELT.