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Anyone who has been vaccinated against the coronavirus or has recovered from the disease should benefit from nationwide easing from the weekend.
Among other things, the current quarantine obligations - in the event of contact with infected people or entry from abroad - no longer apply.
A test should then no longer be necessary.
Professor Peter Kern, Head of the Clinic for Immunology at the Fulda Clinic, fears that fewer tests may result in a mutant being overlooked. The creeping in cannot be prevented, but the spread. The mutant would need “time, and we would have this time to locate them, take measures and develop a vaccine,” said Kern “ntv”.
When asked why mutants like the South African variant B.1.351 do not spread further, he said: “We owe that to the British variant.
B.1.1.7 is the best that could have happened to us. “It was detected for the first time in Germany at Christmas and now makes up 99 percent of all isolates.
Mutations could "not gain a foothold next to her".
The decisive point is: "Our vaccination protects against B.1.1.7 as well as against the original type."
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In addition, vaccination would spread other mutants much more slowly.
"If a mutant develops against which we are hardly protected, then we need a new vaccine." A quick reaction will be a permanent challenge.
Kern assumes, however, that new vaccines are already being developed in laboratories. It is important: “The virus wants to get along with us. It is therefore very likely that it will not develop completely fatal variants, but those that lead to coexistence and do not differ so much from what we already know. " .