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The intensive care physicians are quickly calling for drastic restrictions on public life instead of easing it.
“We really need a hard lockdown,” says Gernot Marx, President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (DIVI), on ZDF.
The situation is "really very dramatic".
“We absolutely have to bring the infection process under control and suppress it.” There is absolutely no point in thinking about opening models now.
In the past few days, 80 to 100 patients have been added to the intensive care units every day.
“And we will definitely have to care for over 5000 patients by the end of April.
Those are really very high numbers. ”In addition, the number of intensive care beds is scarce.
On Friday morning, the Robert Koch Institute reported a significant increase in the number of new corona infections.
According to the health authorities for the past 24 hours, 25,464 other people have been infected with the virus.
That was 3,567 more than on Friday a week ago.
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