Sports day: fans in the stadium? DFL behavior is "unacceptable"

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Pharmacologist Fritz Sörgel continues to massively criticize the plans of the German Football League (DFL), without previous risk assessments, to keep fans back in the stadiums despite the ongoing corona pandemic. "The fact that the DFL, the financially best positioned organization in sports and entertainment in Germany, has not developed its own study is unacceptable"said the Nuremberg newspaper of the "Funke Mediengruppe".

Sörgel points to falling temperatures in autumn, which could increase the risk of infection in the stadiums: "In November, we have temperatures below ten degrees, it is foggy. You had enough time in the laboratory to examine healthy volunteers to see what effects this has on the risk of infection Has." All Bundesliga clubs are currently working on concepts for returning spectators to the stadiums. At the same time, the Robert Koch Institute reported an increase in the number of corona infections