Covid today Germany, “fewer contacts and more vaccines or we will have a fifth wave”

Germany runs the risk of seeing the coronavirus spread in successive waves unless there is a restriction in contacts and an intensification of the vaccination campaign. The alarm came from the head of the Robert Koch Institut (Rki), Lothar Wieler. “If the reduction in contacts and the vaccination campaign do not produce a drastic effect, we will also have a fifth wave on the model of the current one,” he warned, speaking with the Dpa. Read also Wieler has been insisting on avoiding large gatherings, large celebrations and concentrations of people indoors for days. Wieler urged to reduce contacts even in the less affected regions: “In regions where the numbers of infections are still low, we will be able to keep them so with limitations in contacts. When the infections are many, in reality it is already very late, if not too much. later “.” The second thing we need to do now is massively increase vaccinations, “a measure that will not, however, have an effect as fast as contact restrictions:” The effects would be seen three or five weeks later, vaccination works in the medium term “. “Vaccines are the way out of the pandemic,” he recalled. “But this does not mean that other measures can be completely neglected”.