Minutes of discussions in the crisis team of a central health authority are now being made public. The Federal Ministry of Health has countered suspicions about external influence on a higher risk assessment by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on the Corona situation in March 2020.
“The RKI is absolutely independent in its professional assessments of diseases,” said a spokeswoman in Berlin in response to a report by the online magazine “Multipolar” The magazine published partly redacted protocols from the RKI crisis team from January 2020 to April 2021.