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2020-04-04
The strategy envisions the gradual easing of current restrictions in a differentiated way and under continuous consideration of the risks. Priority will be given to restrictions that incur high economic costs or lead to severe social and health burdens. Regions with low infection rates and available capacity in the health care system could, according to the proposal of the 14…
2020-04-01
The mobile eHealth system SORMAS (Surveillance, Outbreak Response Management and Analysis System) was developed at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) together with national and international partners in response to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014. The digital epidemic control tool is already in use in several countries, including Nigeria and Ghana in…
2020-03-27
Prof. Heinz, seit dem 23. März gilt in Deutschland ein Kontaktverbot, um die Ausbreitung des neuartigen Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 zu verlangsamen. Wie sinnvoll ist diese Maßnahme aus Ihrer Sicht? Die Einschränkung der sozialen Kontakte halte ich aktuell für eine sehr wichtige Maßnahme, um den Krankenhäusern Zeit zu verschaffen und zu vermeiden, dass Intensivstationen von zu vielen…
“Immune individuals could be issued with a kind of vaccination certificate, which would allow them to be exempted from restrictions on their activities, for example,” said Prof Gérard Krause, head of the HZI Department of Epidemiology, to the SPIEGEL. Project partners of the study, which is coordinated by HZI epidemiologist Gérard Krause, are the German Centre for Infection…
2020-03-20
The crystal structure of the enzyme Mpro was identified at a resolution of 1.75 Angstroms. An Angstrom is a unit of length equal to one ten-millionth of a millimetre. Mpro is a key enzyme in the coronavirus’ life cycle as it processes polyproteins that are translated from the viral RNA once the virus has entered human cells. “If we succeed in blocking this main protease, we will be…
