Virologist Detlev Krüger has questioned the sense of the coronavirus protective measures ordered in the later phase of the pandemic. It was already known in the course of 2020 that children were not a risk group, he said in the Corona Investigation Committee of the Saxon State Parliament. Even when the virus had already taken on a life of its own, the health authorities had chased after the virus "senselessly" in contact tracing and had thus wasted capacity on other things. Such a measure only makes sense in the initial phase.
Krüger, who had headed the Institute of Virology at Berlin's Charité hospital for more than 20 years, had already retired at the time of the coronavirus pandemic. According to Krüger, it was wrong to describe unvaccinated people as drivers of the pandemic. "An epidemic can only be contained if the majority of the population becomes immune." The quickly provided vaccination was a great thing, but it should not have been presented as a panacea without side effects. This had brought it into disrepute with a section of the population.
The committee of inquiry was set up at the instigation of the AfD parliamentary group. It is to critically examine the work of the Saxon government in connection with the coronavirus in the period from 2019 to 2024. AfD parliamentary group leader Jörg Urban had already accused the government of "serious violations of fundamental rights" in advance. Around 17,750 people have died from Covid-19 in Saxony since the start of the pandemic.
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