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Status: 09.01.2022 02:00 a.m.
The freight forwarders in Germany fear delivery bottlenecks due to the effects of the Omikron variant. The medical association Marburger Bund warns of an overload of the normal wards in hospitals. All developments in the live blog.
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Buschmann: violence in corona demos is unacceptable
Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann has called for consistent action against rule violations and violence during demonstrations against the Corona policy. “If rules are systematically violated or even violent attacks occur, meetings must be dissolved as a last resort, if necessary,” said the FDP politician to the newspapers of the Funke media group. “As a constitutional state, we must not accept violence against police officers or journalists under any circumstances. And if there are legal requirements or requirements, such as wearing masks or keeping your distance, these must of course be complied with,” emphasized the minister.
“Unfortunately, extremists who do not subscribe to the constitution often take part in such demonstrations and try to use the criticism of the Corona measures for their own purposes,” said the FDP politician. “You should therefore think twice about whether you really want to march alongside such groups.”
1:55 am
Doctors’ Association warns of overloading the normal wards
The medical association Marburger Bund warns of an overload of the normal wards in hospitals. “It would be a mistake to only look at the capacity utilization of the intensive care units during the Omikron wave,” says the chairman of the association, Susanne Johna, of the editorial network in Germany. The majority of the milder cases have to be treated in the emergency rooms and on the normal wards. The Marburger Bund expects significantly more hospital admissions than with the Delta variant.
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Forwarders fear delivery bottlenecks due to Omikron
In Germany, freight forwarders fear delivery bottlenecks due to the effects of the Omikron variant. “Omikron has the potential that delivery bottlenecks occur more frequently and that not all supply chains can be maintained,” said the President of the Federal Association of Freight Transport and Logistics (BGL), Dirk Engelhardt, of “Bild am Sonntag”. “On the one hand we have Omikron as a short-term but very serious problem, on the other hand we have a worldwide driver shortage in the long term.” Engelhardt called for rapid precautions to be taken in the event of an emergency. For example, Germany could be divided into four to six regions in order to respond more specifically to possible bottlenecks.