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Berlin – The unredacted minutes of the crisis team of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on the corona pandemic were made public today. The RKI has criticized the process.

The reports were published by a group led by a journalist at a press conference. The group states that it is the complete data set of all minutes of the crisis team’s meetings from the period between 2020 and 2023.

On X, the journalist called for an “uncompromising and honest review” of Corona policy in Germany. The redacted protocols should contribute to this.

In response to the publication, Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach wrote on X that the RKI had planned to publish the protocols with his consent anyway. “Now it is happening without the rights of third parties, including employees, having been protected beforehand. Nevertheless, there is nothing to hide,” said the SPD politician.

In May of this year, the RKI had already published the protocols for the period January 2020 to April 2021 largely without any blacking out.

To the extent that the data sets now published “illegally publish personal data and trade and business secrets of third parties and in particular violate the rights of third parties, the RKI expressly disapproves of this,” the institute said.

The RKI neither checked nor verified the data sets. Certain personal data as well as operational and business secrets of third parties remained blacked out.

The trigger was a previous publication of the protocols by the online magazine MultipolarThe fact that numerous passages were blacked out at the time sparked a debate about the independence of the RKI. © dpa/aerzteblatt.de