Berlin – The unredacted protocols of the crisis team of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on the corona pandemic became public today. The RKI criticized the process.
The reports were published by a group led by a journalist at a press conference. The group claims that it is the complete set of data from all crisis team meeting minutes from the period between 2020 and 2023.
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In response to the publication, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach wrote in X that the RKI planned to publish the protocols anyway with his consent. “Now it is happening without the rights of third parties, including employees, having been protected in advance. “There is still nothing to hide,” said the SPD politician.
In May of this year, the RKI had already published the protocols for the period from January 2020 to April 2021, largely without redactions.
The RKI expressly disapproves of the fact that “personal data and commercial and corporate secrets of third parties are unlawfully published in the data sets now published and, in particular, the rights of third parties are violated,” the institute said.
The RKI did not check or verify the data sets. Certain personal data as well as commercial and company secrets of third parties remained hidden.
The trigger was a preliminary publication of the minutes by the online magazine Multipolar. The fact that numerous passages were hidden at the time sparked a debate about the independence of the RKI. © dpa/aerzteblatt.de