The head of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wheeler, warned on Saturday about the risk of a fifth wave of the coronavirus pandemic, if vaccination rates do not increase rapidly and contacts are not reduced.
According to the models examined by the Institute, “if the restrictions are not consistently observed and the vaccinations are not increased, we will have a fifth wave”, said Mr. Wheeler to the German News Agency (dpa) and described as “bitter” the fact that So far no one was able to send in the perfect solution, which is not strange. The further development of winter “depends to a large extent on what is happening now”, he added and reiterated that large events should be canceled indoors and outdoors.
The head of the scientific institute is still in favor of preventive action, even in the states where there is no outbreak of the pandemic. “There we have the opportunity to keep the number of cases low. “Where the numbers are too high, it is actually too late,” he said. However, “the vaccine is the way out of the pandemic and offers a very high level of protection,” he continued, concluding: protection against serious illness “.
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