For a second pandemic wave had occupied the offices of health "much too short", said the Chairman of the Federal Association of the Physicians of the Public health service (BVÖGD), Ute Teichert, the Newspapers of the Funke media group.

"With rising infection numbers rolled is a huge Problem on us," she warned.

The more than 400 German health authorities could not wait until the planned measures of the Federal government to strengthen the public health service were enacted, said Teichert. Need a short-term solution. The health authorities would have to get in an emergency reinforcement.

The Association, the Chairman proposed to support the health offices of a national voluntary Register. This should be "a kind of job exchange", the communicate in case of emergency employees. The volunteers need to be trained and "in the topic familiar". This could be students who had been in the first pandemic wave for use against the Virus are formed, but also Employees from other areas of health care.

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) was given on Thursday the number of single, one day, re-recorded Coronavirus infections in Germany with 902. RKI-President Lothar Wieler had already called two days earlier, the significant increase in Figures as "very worrying". He criticized, people and companies have become "sloppy". There is the risk of an uncontrolled spread there.

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