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#Important Info

#Germany #Berlin #RKI #Coronavirus #Study

The federal government is concerned about the development of corona infections in Germany.

The Federal Chancellery in Berlin is therefore in close contact with the federal states in order to advance a common line in the fight against the Sars-CoV-2 virus.

In a conversation between Chancellor Helge Braun and the state secretaries, the confidante of the Chancellor apparently warned that the increase in the number of corona cases could also be due to the different approaches within the republic.

An evaluation by the German health authorities clarifies other circumstances that may be partly responsible for the renewed increase in the corona numbers.

A study by the @SZ, @WDR and @ndr shows that there are noticeable differences between the federal states with regard to the identified contact persons of infected people.

There is therefore no official body that bundles and evaluates data collected by the health authorities. There is also no clarity as to how well they ultimately succeed in locating chains of infection.

SZ and the two public TV companies asked all of the 380 health authorities in Germany. However, information about the month of August 2020 was only provided by 152 offices and thus not even half. Corona infected people had, on average, "close" contact with 4.9 people.

What does that mean? According to the criteria of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), close contact persons are people who are closer than 1.5 meters, for at least 15 minutes during the days of infection .

The problem is ultimately again due to large regional differences: As reported by @tagesschau, among others, there are enormous deviations that appear unrealistic: such as Saxony (9.8 contact persons) and Bavaria (1.7). The differences at the district level are even greater.

According to the report, the health authorities also do not know where this partly clear discrepancy comes from. Tübingen (Baden-Württemberg) identified only 1.7 contact persons, Leipzig 25 per corona infected person.

One reason for the large deviations could therefore be that no central body analyzes and compares the figures from the health authorities. Wouldn't this measure be something for the Robert Koch Institute?

The RKI announced that it had no knowledge of this and that no data was available. Another problem - and this has been known for a long time - is the common behavior of giving false names on guest lists in bars and restaurants.

Restaurateurs depend on the forms being filled out correctly. But the rate of forgery is considerable, with false names or telephone numbers being entered. This behavior also torpedoes the careful follow-up of contact persons in the event of a corona infection.

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