German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has announced more transparency in the corona protocols of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) that have become public. There should not be the slightest impression that something is being ‘consciously hidden’ here – so that ‘no more conspiracy theories arise’.
“Yesterday I ensured that the protocols were largely edited,” the SPD politician said on Deutschlandfunk on Thursday. It is necessary to check again what absolutely needs to be made illegible. “This means that the Robert Koch Institute must now request permission from everyone mentioned in the minutes or whose interests are mentioned so that the editing can take place.”
That will take a while, ‘maybe four weeks’, but then a much clearer variant can be presented.
A few days ago, the online magazine ‘Multipolar’ made public the partially edited minutes of the RKI crisis team from January 2020 to April 2021. As a result, calls for a review of state policy to contain the corona pandemic with tens of thousands of deaths in Germany became louder.
“No trace of an impression”
Lauterbach again said he had nothing to do with the editing of the minutes. According to the Freedom of Information Act, the Robert Koch Institute had to black out certain names and also black out certain matters that affected third parties. It is for maximum transparency. “I simply don’t want to give the slightest impression that the Robert Koch Institute is deliberately hiding anything here or that there is even political interference on the part of the federal government that prevents the Robert Koch Institute from publishing stuff here.”
Parliamentary processing?
When asked what a revision of the Corona measures in Germany should look like, Lauterbach did not want to commit. “If there is a parliamentary review, Parliament must also decide how that should be done.”
Overall, there must be more transparency “so that more conspiracy theories do not arise around that time,” the minister says.
Source: Krone
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