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The head of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV), Andreas Gassen, expects the lockdown that has been in effect since Wednesday to fail.
"I am not assuming that we will achieve a relevant reduction in infection rates and certainly not in deaths by January 10," said Gassen to the "editorial network Germany".
An extension of the lockdown will not change that.
"A lockdown, no matter how hard, is not a suitable long-term strategy in combating pandemics."
Instead, more should be done to protect the risk groups in old people's and nursing homes.
In addition, the flow of people must be equalized, for example by using more buses and trains, as well as subsidized taxi rides for risk groups, Gassen demanded.
He also calls for the corona protective measures to be lifted if all people who are ready to be vaccinated have received a vaccination.
"If everyone who wants it gets a vaccination, we can lift the restrictions too."
Drosten: "Wonder who this is supposed to help"
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If you don't want to be vaccinated, you have to live with the risk of contracting Covid-19 or even dying from it, said Gassen.
“It cannot be that the rest of society has to take into account those who refuse to be vaccinated.” He expects the population to be vaccinated by the summer.
Virologist Christian Drosten responded on Twitter to Gassen's statement that the lockdown was not a long-term strategy: “Of course not.
Nobody would suggest that either. "Drosten criticized:" I wonder who such statements are supposed to help. "
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