hospital alert and emergency planning

The course of corona disease worldwide shows that a massive increase in the number of infected individuals is also to be expected in Germany. At present, there are still very few infected people compared to China and Italy. Pandemic measures are needed to reduce the spread, especially in hospitals. Corona, in the form of Covid-19, is a virus that can be transmitted from person to person. Vaccine protection against it has not yet been developed, so the only way to prevent it from spreading is through good hygiene and isolation of those infected. The legal basis for this in Germany is the Infection Protection Act, which requires compliance with the state of the art in medicine and epidemiology in order to prevent the spread. According to Section 4 (1) of the Infection Protection Act, the Robert Koch Institute is named to prescribe and develop this state of the art. Accordingly, the [...]