The largest cities in Saxony, were prepared with emergency plans, an epidemic. In Chemnitz, the health Department was able to unpack, according to the city of the pandemic plan and the implementation initiated. The Influenza pandemic plan was developed in Dresden, already, see, an approach in phases. This could be applied according to city of Corona-crisis.
in Leipzig, had been drawn up on the occasion of the swine flu in 2009, a pandemic plan. He is not one-to-one to the current Situation-transferable, so the health Department. In the flu epidemic about more quickly a vaccine was available. However, the basic structures of the pandemic plan had been adopted for the current location.
dealing with large disasters with many injured, dead, or necessary evacuations, a separate disaster protection plan, which regulates according to the Leipzig fire Department. Also in Dresden, this will be written according to the city regularly.
called back the pandemic plans: How do these fit and where improvements need to be made – this must be developed under the Corona of a pandemic, it is out of the town halls. “The Corona-pandemic teaches that unique situations may occur, in the little planning that fits properly,” said Mischa Woitscheck, managing Director of the Saxon cities and municipality tags. To a later date to be evaluated, to what extent and for which cities and municipalities it is expedient, with detailed plans on pandemic cases set.
A Forsa poll for the magazine “municipal” recently showed that many German municipalities before the Corona-crisis had no contingency plans for an epidemic. 20 percent of well over 2300 respondents, town halls had to a such a Plan in the drawer, the survey showed. Especially among smaller municipalities surveyed with less than 5000 inhabitants, is the least-had such a concept (12 percent). Large cities with more than 100 000 inhabitants had, however, in the majority of cases (79 percent) have a contingency plan.
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