Germany is increasing calls for the authorities to develop an action plan to lift the measures introduced to combat the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. “What we need now is Plan Liberty, a step-by-step easing plan based on parameters,” Die Welt quotes Andreas Gassen, head of the Associations of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.

Germany needs to learn to live with the causative agent of COVID-19, he is convinced.

Some people think that the pandemic will pass when people stop dying from covid. This is a delusion, he added notign that Covid will remain among the diseases circulating on the planet for a long time.

Numerous restrictions can be completely lifted as early as March, an expert on legal policy from the parliamentary faction of one of the ruling parties in Germany, does not exclude.

At the end of 2021, amendments to the Epidemiological Protection Act (Infektionsschutzgesetz, IfSG) came into force in Germany, giving the authorities of the federal states the right to independently take more stringent measures to combat the pandemic if they are approved by the local legislature. While they are valid until March 19, however, if necessary, they can be extended for a period of up to 3 months.

Meanwhile, 10,671,602 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Germany (84 million people) (daily increase 248,838). Another 170 people have died from the effects of covid in the past 24 hours, the total number of deaths since the start of the pandemic has reached 118,504. Almost 8 million Germans have recovered and been discharged.

The average rate of hospitalization of patients with covid in Germany, based on the last seven days, has increased from 4.77 to 5 per 100,000 population. At the same time, the number of patients in intensive care units continues to decline. As of February 3, 2,226 patients with this infection were in intensive care, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute. This is 50 people less than the day before. Back in early December 2021, their number was approaching 5,000.