![\\"logo\\"](\\"/img/logo-dpa-factchecking.svg\\"/) * WhatsApp service * About Us ![\\"IFCN](\\"/img/ifcn-certificate.png\\"/) ![\\"EFCSN](\\"/img/efcsn- certificate.png\\"/) # Lauterbach: Align the end of the lockdown with new infections, not with time deadline January 8, 2021, 12:10 (CET) Because of his calls for stricter rules in the fight against the pandemic SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach is regularly targeted Opponents of the Corona measures. Now the Social Democrats are on social media assumes (archived here) that he had a “lockdown for” at the beginning of January 2021 “always” required. RATING: False. His quote from an interview is shortened and reproduced in a way that distorts the meaning. Instead of a time limit, pleads Lauterbach for a value of 25 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants Aim of the lockdown measures. FACTS: On January 4, 2021, the “Passauer Neue Presse” published a Interview with Lauterbach. In it, the SPD politician calls for the state Measures to limit the pandemic do not have a specific end point towards the actual number of infections. “The lockdown must continue and should not be limited in time, but should be aligned with the target value of 25,” Lauterbach said in the statement Interview. “It has to go on until the goal is new infections is reached. Then the health authorities can take control again win development." So he is not calling for a “lockdown forever” like the politician and doctor is now assumed. The SPD man had already tweeted on January 3rd: “The current lockdown should simply continue until the target value is reached.” By “target value of 25” he means the rate of new infections per 100,000 residents in seven days. On January 4th, according to the Robert Koch- Institute in Germany at 139. In the interview, Lauterbach also referred to the newly emerged mutation Coronavirus. “An incidence value of 50 is not enough because we will have it in the future will probably have to do with a virus variant that is essential is more contagious than the one previously widespread in Germany.” \--- Left: Excerpts from the Lauterbach interview in the “Passauer Neue Presse” via “merkur.de” (January 4, 2021): lockdown-karl-lauterbach-vaccination-mutation-warning-criticism-school-90157838.html (archived: Lauterbach tweet from January 3, 2021: (archived: RKI report from January 4th, 2021: (archived: Facebook post with false claims about Lauterbach: (archive: \--- Contact the dpa fact check team: faktencheck@dpa.com powered by dpa-newslab | Imprint | Privacy | About:
Because of his calls for stricter rules in the fight against the pandemic SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach is regularly targeted by opponents of the Corona measures The Social Democrat is now being accused on social media archived here of calling for a lockdown forever at the beginning of January 2021