Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) has appealed to pay more attention to the risk of corona infection at parties and events. "At the moment there are particularly many young people infected," said the minister. This suggests that it also has something to do with parties.

The people had to remain vigilant, but there was also no reason for an "end times mood". The health authorities could deal with the previous magnitude . "It would be worrying if it continued to rise," said Spahn.

Ingrid Hartges, managing director of the German Hotel and Restaurant Association (Dehoga), said in the morning in the ARD morning magazine that the infection rate that can be attributed to the industry is very low. She ignored the fact that figures from the Robert Koch Institute only relate to infections of employees in the kitchens of restaurants and the meat industry and do not take into account infections among the guests. Numerous other gatherings such as parties on the streets or in parks are not the responsibility of the restaurants, according to Hartges.

Aerosols and corona - where breathing becomes a riskNot only sneezing and coughing can be dangerous: Sars-CoV-2 is also transmitted through the air. What makes aerosol particles so treacherous and how you can protect yourself.The SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach meanwhile called for a nationwide limitation of private celebrations to 50 participants. "The second wave of infections is already a reality in Germany," he told the Rheinische Post. CDU against further easingThe CDU is currently rejecting any further relaxation of the corona measures. CDU general secretary Paul Ziemiak said after a board meeting: "We agreed that further steps towards opening up are not appropriate." In the opinion of CDU leader Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer everything must be done to prevent a second lockdown, as she said according to information from party circles at the committee meetings of her party. The economy must also be supported.In the debate about mandatory tests for travelers returning from corona risk areas, World Medical Association President Montgomery pleaded for those affected to participate. "I can not see why we in the general public all have to bear the costs for people who know exactly what risk they are taking in order to then dump these costs on the general public," said Montgomery in the RBB. Spahn replied that it created the wrong incentive to pass the costs on to the travelers, as they would then tend to elude the tests. He pointed out that a family of four to five would have to raise between 300 and 400 euros. In addition, the orgnizations that did the tests on site would then also struggle with their payment.