BUndescancer Olaf Scholz (SPD) sees no reason for new measures, despite the corona numbers increasing for weeks. “What we are experiencing now is the ‘new’ normality with Corona,” he told the newspapers of the Bayern media group on Saturday. The current situation is “fortunately completely different than when the corona pandemic broke out three and a half years ago”.
There will be an adapted vaccine that will be available soon with the recommendation “that older people and vulnerable groups make use of it,” continued Scholz, 65. He himself has been vaccinated four times and will also be vaccinated a fifth time, according to the SPD politician.
The Bonn virologist Hendrik Streeck meanwhile warned of an overall overload of the health system in winter. “We are very busy at work in the hospitals and doctor’s surgeries,” he told the “Rheinische Post”. “We have an enormous shortage of skilled workers.”
In view of the new Corona variant BA.2.86, however, he advised calm. “I don’t believe in issuing fear appeals about every variant,” he told the newspaper. “Because we have the basic immunity against Corona and it will not be lost.” Anyone who does not belong to a risk group does not have to be immunized again.