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The virologist Alexander Kekulé sees serious mistakes in politics and science in the fight against the corona pandemic.
“That is why the Corona summit next week can only decide on restrictions and pull the emergency brake, which is already planned on paper.
My heart is bleeding, ”he told the“ Passauer Neue Presse ”.
“As an intelligent and rich industrial nation, we should be able to find more differentiated solutions.
But that didn't work.
All that remains is a blanket lockdown.
The population has to pay for the mistakes of politics once again. "
Specifically, he named as a mistake: “The gates were literally opened to the variants - for example by opening the schools without sensible alternative concepts.” In addition, the population was simply “angry” with the restrictions and the infection situation at the workplaces is still not under control.
In view of the rapidly increasing number of new corona infections, intensive care physicians are calling for a return to a nationwide lockdown.
"It has to be acted urgently," said the President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (Divi), Gernot Marx of the "Augsburger Allgemeine".
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) had pleaded on Friday evening to pull the "emergency brake" decided by the federal and state governments.
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