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The demand of the North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) for a "bridge lockdown" comes late from the perspective of medical practitioners.

This opportunity should have been used during the Easter holidays, said the chairman of the board of the Westphalia-Lippe Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Dirk Spelmeyer, on Tuesday in the “Morgenecho” of WDR 5. He would like a lockdown “crisp and hard”, said Spelmeyer.

CDU boss Laschet had surprisingly proposed on Easter Monday that a "bridge lockdown" be adopted in the fight against the third wave of corona.

This should bridge the time until many people are vaccinated.

On Tuesday, the general practitioners will also start corona vaccinations.

Because of the still small quantities of vaccines available, this will only be able to begin slowly before the general practitioner vaccinations are expected to “pick up a lot” from the beginning of May.

He was convinced that it would go very well, said Spelmeyer.

“That is one of the main tasks of family doctors.” Last autumn, they had vaccinated 2.2 million people against flu in the Westphalia-Lippe area alone.