California declares a state of emergency, the Netherlands calls on risk patients to be vaccinated by letter. Germany, on the other hand, does comparatively little to combat the disease – there are many more cases per capita than in the USA, for example.
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Leopold Zaak, Munich
It didn’t take long for Karl Lauterbach to sit with Markus Lanz. The first case of monkeypox in Germany was confirmed on May 20, five days later the Minister of Health was a guest on the ZDF talk show. And there he found himself in a role that is hardly known from him: he gave the all-clear. Lanz joked that it was certainly unusual for the minister to be responsible for good news. “I really like doing that,” said Lauterbach. He also said: Monkeypox will not lead to a pandemic.