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Starting today, general practitioners will also be vaccinating against the corona virus.
According to the SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach, this will initially have no effect on the number of new infections registered.
"That will not really accelerate the way out of the third wave, because we do not have enough vaccine for it," he told the broadcasters RTL and ntv.
What is needed is a “hard lockdown” with tightened state restrictions such as exit restrictions, but also a home office and test obligation in the companies.
In his view, openings of restaurants, cinemas and sports facilities such as the one in Saarland are the wrong signal in view of the coronavirus pandemic, which is still rampant.
"A lockdown that begins now cannot be communicated if it is loosened in model projects at the same time."
Lauterbach would advocate uniform nationwide corona rules, as he said.
But in view of the infection situation, there is not enough time for a legislative procedure.
"We don't have to deal now with how politics should work, we just have to make politics."
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