Four employees at tables pushed together to form a rectangle, with telephone and monitor cables in between: This is the control center of the Corona Situation Center in the Robert Koch Institute - the heart of crisis management, from which the RKI provides the facts, the rhythm of policy measures.

The institute released the photo after a long struggle.

It is the maximum amount of insight that the authority allows inside.

The press office announced at the beginning of the research that it was impossible to enter the situation center itself.

Also interviews and visits in order to draw as precise a picture as possible of the authority affected by the corona pandemic

Suddenly the whole country looked - none of that is possible.

Any approach to the institute must therefore largely do without its involvement.