Shock for returnees from China: two passengers are infected with corona virus. Your plane landed at Frankfurt Airport.
- Frankfurt Airport is preparing for the coronavirus from China
- Shock for returnees from China
- Two passengers are infected with coronavirus
Update from Sunday, 02.02.2020 , 11:23 a.m .: Two Germans have been infected with the corona virus in China. They were among the passengers from China who returned with a Bundeswehr aircraft. This was announced by the district administration in Germersheim on Sunday.
Update from Sunday, 02.02.2020 , 06.50 a.m .: While the new corona virus continues to spread rapidly in China, over 100 passengers flown out of there have reached their quarantine station in Germany. German citizens and family members were brought to a barracks in Rhineland-Palatinate by bus on Sunday night. They were flown out of Wuhan City in Hubei Province on Saturday, which is particularly affected by the lung disease and is believed to be the origin of the epidemic. From there alone, 45 further deaths were reported within one day.
Coronavirus: 14 days quarantine
The Germans flown out of China should stay in the South Palatinate barracks in Germersheim for at least 14 days - that is how long the maximum incubation period lasts, i.e. the period from the feared infection to the possible outbreak. At the location of an air force training battalion, 128 rooms are available for them in a building completed in 2018.
Update from Saturday, February 1, 2020 , 8:04 p.m .: According to current information, there was also a suspected case in the plane arriving from China. The person was admitted to the Frankfurt University Hospital with difficulty breathing and coughing. The person was very calm and thankful that they would be taken care of, said Rene Gottschalk, the head of the Frankfurt Health Department at a press conference on Saturday evening. Ten other people with minor health problems were also admitted to the clinic, but these are not suspected cases. The test result will be available tomorrow.
The number of passengers fluctuates. According to dpa information, 128 people were on board, health minister Kai Klose spoke of 124 passengers at the press conference. A spokesman for the Air Force said when asked by the editorial team that 126 passengers, 15 crew members and 2 doctors were on board. How the different information could arise is not understandable.
Update from Saturday, February 1st , 2020 at 7:24 pm: On Saturday evening, the Bavarian Ministry of Health confirmed the eighth case in Bavaria and thus also in Germany. The man is also an employee of the Webasto company, where the virus first appeared in Germany.
Meanwhile, the passengers are currently being tested for their health after the Airbus A 310 has landed. Suspected cases were sent to a Frankfurt hospital, and passengers were brought to Germersheim without symptoms.
Relief prevailed before the departure in Wuhan: "To be happy at the gate", a woman, who did not want to be mentioned, reported to the German Press Agency shortly before the start. The group had already gathered at the airport the night before and also spent the night there. "Everything was pretty exhausting so far."
Rhineland-Palatinate sees itself well prepared for the quarantine of German citizens and family members. In the southern Palatinate barracks in Germersheim, "people who have been through a lot" would receive good and adequate care, said the Rhineland-Palatinate Health Minister Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (SPD) in Germersheim. A total of 128 rooms are available in a previously uninhabited building on the site. "Support in the red zone is provided by 27 volunteers from the German Red Cross," said Michael Sieland from the German Red Cross.
Frankfurt Airport: Airbus landed in Frankfurt with returnees
Update from Saturday, 1.2.202 0 , 16:39 : The Airbus A 310 of the Air Force has landed in Frankfurt, reports the dpa. The 126 passengers are now medically checked and then transported to Germersheim. The check will probably take four to five hours. How the flight crew will proceed is still unclear at the moment, said the spokesman for the Air Force. When departing from Wuhan, all passengers were symptom-free.
Update from Saturday, February 1, 2020, 3:52 p.m .: For the 126 returnees on board the Air Force aircraft from the Chinese epidemic, the last stage of the trip to Frankfurt am Main has begun: The plane has reached German airspace. The aircraft had started shortly before 2.30 p.m. from Helsinki Airport, where it had been refueled and where a new crew had boarded, the air force announced on Saturday. The machine is expected in Frankfurt around 4:30 p.m.
Update from Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 11:55 am: The return of German citizens from the Chinese epidemic has led to a diplomatic scandal with Russia. Russia has prevented the German Air Force aircraft with the 128 returnees from Wuhan from making the mandatory stopover in Moscow, Colonel Daniel Draken, the commander of the flight preparedness in the Federal Ministry of Defense, said on Saturday the "Bild am Sonntag". The Airbus will now stop in Finland's capital Helsinki to refuel.
"Russia did allow us to fly over," Draken told the newspaper. "But a landing at the Moscow airports was denied due to insufficient capacity on the ground."
Frankfurt Airport: Moscow refuses to land in Russia - reason only advanced
According to information from "Bild am Sonntag", Russia had previously offered the German authorities the prospect of landing. The stopover on the flight to Frankfurt am Main is necessary to refuel the government Airbus and replace the pilots. An A310 crew had already flown to Moscow on Thursday to take over the aircraft there.
The news that the Moscow landing was denied came Saturday night, the report said. According to information from the newspaper, security circles consider the Russian side's reference to space problems to be advanced.
Update from Friday, January 31, 2020, 10:18 p.m .: The number of detected infections with the new corona virus in Germany has risen to seven . As the Bavarian Ministry of Health announced in the evening in Munich, the lung disease was confirmed in a man from the Fürstenfeldbruck district . He works like the first five infected people in Germany at the auto parts supplier Webasto. In addition, a child whose father works at Webasto.
Update from Friday, January 31, 2020, 7:41 p.m .: After the six infections with the novel corona virus so far, further tests at the affected company Webasto in the district of Starnberg have shown no further illnesses for the time being. This was announced by a spokesman for the Bavarian Ministry of Health on Friday evening with reference to the State Office for Health and Food Safety. According to that, a total of 122 tests by Webasto employees were negative. Test results from other people examined will follow soon.
So there are currently six known coronavirus cases in Germany (as of Friday evening 7:00 p.m.). According to the doctors, all those affected were in a stable condition.
The sixth case had been confirmed in the afternoon. This is the child of a man from the district of Traunstein , whose positive finding was announced on Thursday evening. Like the four other infected adults, the man is also a Webasto employee.
Update from Friday, January 31, 2020, 4:50 p.m .: Tests for the coronavirus in Germany are now paid for by health insurance companies. Health insurers and doctors have agreed on this, as the Federal Ministry of Health announced on Friday. The assumption of costs applies from this Saturday. Even doctors who can be tested do not have to bear the costs themselves. As of Saturday, a previously announced new notification requirement for doctors, hospitals and laboratories will also apply. You now have to report suspected cases of coronavirus to the Robert Koch Institute and not as previously only confirmed cases.
Frankfurt Airport: Luftwaffe brings Germans back from China because of corona virus
Update from Friday, January 31, 2020, 2:59 p.m .: In Frankfurt am Flughafen, work is underway to prepare for the admission of the Germans from Wuhan; a vaccine is now to be developed in Marburg. But: According to Prof. Dr. Stephan Becker, director of the Institute of Virology in Marburg, may still take around a year before a vaccine against the novel corona virus is actually available *.
This is due to high safety conditions, the duration of production and the need for a subsequent clinical study. "These are all processes, they simply take their time and you cannot accelerate them at will," explained Becker.
Update from Friday, January 31, 2020, 12.49 p.m .: While the Luftwaffe plane has started to China to get the Germans back from the origin of the corona virus , preparations are being made at Frankfurt Airport for the arrivals. A gym is ready for them.
Update from Friday, January 31, 2020, 11:58 a.m .: The Air Force has started the evacuation flight to Wuhan in China. More than 100 people are said to be brought back to Germany from the place of origin of the corona virus . At 11.55 a.m. the Airbus A310 "Kurt Schumacher" took off for the Chinese metropolis. The plane is scheduled to land at Frankfurt Airport on Saturday evening.
Corona virus: Air Force brings Germans back from Wuhan to Frankfurt
Updated on Friday, 01.31.2020, 11:26: Evacuation action for German to be flown because of the novel coronavirus from China is underway. "In a few minutes, a Bundeswehr aircraft will leave for China to fly out German citizens," said Federal Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) in Berlin on Friday morning. All the necessary approvals from the Chinese authorities have now been obtained.
More than a hundred people were to be flown out, Maas said. He was "relieved" that "the difficult situation is now over for those affected". Maas emphasized that, according to the current state of knowledge, there is “nobody who is infected” among the Germans who are to be flown out. There are also no suspected cases in this group. Nevertheless, those who had flown out should be brought "in quarantine to a Bundeswehr location" for two weeks after their arrival in Germany. This is a security measure. The plane's destination is the airport in Frankfurt .
Coronavirus: Air Force brings Germans back from Wuhan to Frankfurt (airport)
Update from Friday, January 31, 2020, 9.40 a.m .: The Air Force wants to send a plane to China on Friday to fly out Germans from the Chinese province of Hubei , which has been hardest hit by the corona virus . After the approval of the participating states was given, the flight should start from Cologne-Wahn in the morning according to dpa information.
The Bundeswehr plane is expected to return to Germany with the returnees on board on Saturday, but that was not entirely certain on Friday.
According to Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU), only those who are symptom-free can fly. Participation in the flight is voluntary. According to previous estimates, around 90 Germans are affected. The returnees are said to be in quarantine at the Germersheim air force base in Rhineland-Palatinate for around 14 days.
Frankfurt Airport: WHO declares international emergency due to corona virus
Update from Friday, January 31, 2020, 00:36: There are four new suspected cases of the corona virus in Göttingen . Those who may be infected with the coronavirus are in the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) . "We have four suspected cases (hna.de *), the patients are being cared for," said UMG spokesman Stefan Weller when asked by our editorial team.
The patients who may have been infected with the Wuhan disease had been in contact with people from China.
Update from Thursday, January 30, 2020, 10:49 p.m .: Another person in Bavaria has been infected with the new corona virus from China . As in the other four German cases, it is an employee of the automotive supplier Webasto based in Starnberg, the Bavarian Ministry of Health said in the evening. The newly infected person lives in the district of Traunstein . A total of around 110 people were identified who could be considered as close contacts for the sick and who were still being tested.
Further test results are expected to be available on Friday. In addition, the Bavarian health authorities continue to look for suspected cases in the private environment of those infected. The Bavarian Ministry of Health says it will provide details on Friday.
Update from Thursday, January 30, 2020, 8:54 p.m .: The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a "health emergency of international importance" in China after the rapid increase in infections with the new corona virus . This is linked to specific recommendations to states in order to limit spread across borders as far as possible.
Coronavirus: Flights from China land in Frankfurt - WHO declares emergency
Update from Thursday, January 30, 2020, 6:47 p.m .: Only passengers who are symptom-free may fly in the return campaign that the Federal Republic is planning for German citizens in Wuhan, which is particularly plagued by the coronavirus. Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn (CDU) said that anyone who wants to be flown from Wuhan by plane must be in quarantine in Germany for two weeks. According to previous estimates, around 90 Germans are affected. The aircraft of the Bundeswehr is scheduled to land in Frankfurt. The return flight was initially planned for Saturday. But that wasn't certain on Thursday either. Where exactly the passengers will be accommodated after the landing will still be agreed, said Spahn.
Doctors were already there during the flight, said René Gottschalk, head of the Frankfurt Health Office. After landing, they would be "screened" on board before disembarking: they would be interviewed. "If someone complains about symptoms, we will take them out and drive straight to the university clinic," said Gottschalk. There is an isolation station for possible coronavirus patients. All other passengers would be taken to a so-called medical assessment center: a hall at the airport that would be converted into a temporary health center for such cases. The passengers would then be taken to a quarantine facility under the direction of the federal government.
Update from Thursday, January 30th, 2020, 4.45 p.m .: After landing at Frankfurt Airport , the Germans who flew from China due to the corona virus are to be quarantined elsewhere. The passengers will only be received, said the head of the Frankfurt Health Office, René Gottschalk, on Thursday of the German Press Agency.
Once in Frankfurt, the passengers would first be taken to a so-called Medical Assessment Center: a hall at the airport that would be converted into a temporary health center for such cases. There they would get food and drink and would be interviewed again. Only then do you continue to the quarantine facility. "It's not in Frankfurt," Gottschalk emphasized.
Coronavirus Frankfurt Airport: Student from Hesse in China - "ghostly"
Update from Thursday, January 30th, 2020, 4:25 pm: The suspected coronavirus on the cruise ship in Italy has not been confirmed, as reported by the Italian news agency "Ansa". This would have shown medical examinations.
Update from Thursday, January 30, 2020, 3:31 p.m .: The corona virus continues to spread. There is a state of emergency in many cities in China - the country of origin of the virus. As a student from Kassel tells “HNA *”, the streets are “ghostly empty”. He had completed an internship in the Chinese metropolis of Tianjin. At the entrances to the subway there were staff with infrared thermometers. Every passenger is shone in the eyes.
Coronavirus Frankfurt Airport: Suspicion on cruise ship in Italy
Update from Thursday, January 30, 2020, 12:59 p.m .: Thousands of passengers on board a cruise ship are stuck in the port of the Italian city of Civitavecchia . The reason: suspected coronavirus ! As the news agency "Ansa" reported on Thursday, there are said to be a total of around 7,000 people on board the "Costa Smeralda".
A tourist from the Chinese Macao Special Administrative Region had symptoms such as fever and breathing problems, as a spokesman for the shipping company confirmed. According to the media, she and her husband had arrived at the airport in Milan on January 25. The woman was given medical care and isolation on the ship. The results of a virus test were expected in the afternoon that her husband did not have a fever. The local authorities ordered that the passengers were initially not allowed to go ashore.
Corona virus alarm at Frankfurt Airport: Germans from Wuhan are flown out
Update from Thursday, January 30, 2020, 10:58 a.m .: The recall campaign of around 90 Germans from Wuhan has been postponed. The machine should actually start going to China on Wednesday, the new start date is now Friday at 12.45 p.m., as "Bild" reports. On Saturday evening the plane will land with the Germans in Frankfurt at the airport . The passengers should then initially be housed together in isolation. There is concern about a chain of infection from the corona virus.
Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) also emphasized: “Things can be handled. We are well prepared. And we don't need any special isolation stations either. "
Coronavirus Frankfurt Airport: Lufthansa crew returns
Update from Thursday, January 30, 2020: The crew of an Airbus A340 from Lufthansa , in which there was a suspected case of coronavirus , landed again at Frankfurt Airport on Wednesday evening (January 29, 2020). Pilots and flight attendants had directly got on the next plane to Frankfurt after their arrival in China.
The passengers, who sat three rows in front of and behind the coughing man from China, were examined by the Chinese authorities as well as the crew, said a Lufthansa spokesman. After the medical examination, they were released as safe.
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"After landing, the crew can go home normally," said a department head at the Frankfurt Health Department on Wednesday evening. There is currently no reason to put the flight attendants and pilots under special observation.
For one thing, there was no face-to-face contact of more than 15 minutes. In addition, it is still not clear whether the Chinese from the plane is actually infected with the corona virus. "We are trying to find out now."
Coronavirus in Hessen: 100 Germans are flown to Frankfurt
Updated on Wednesday, 01.29.2020, 18:55: Because of the spread of the coronavirus to be flown around 100 German in Frankfurt. There they are housed "under quarantine conditions ". Berlin decided that way, said State Secretary in the Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs Anne Janz on Wednesday in Frankfurt. The authorities assumed that they were people who were not ill - at least until they got started. Doctors accompany the travelers from Wuhan .
Upon arrival, the passengers would be examined, then "centrally looked after and cared for". Specifically, this means that they are housed "under quarantine conditions" because of a possible risk of infection *. Where exactly, that is not certain yet. Details would still be clarified with Berlin, said Janz. It is likely that the landing will take place on Thursday.
Suspected coronavirus case in Wiesbaden invalidated
Update from Wednesday, January 29, 2020, 5:31 p.m .: All-clear for Hessen: A suspected coronavirus case in Wiesbaden has been invalidated. Health Minister Kai Klose (Greens) said on Wednesday (January 29, 2020) in the Hessian state parliament.
The citizens of Hesse could trust a reliable health system. A task force has been set up to maintain constant contact with the country's health authorities and the Robert Koch Institute, said Klose.
A total of four cases of coronavirus infections have now been confirmed in Germany, all in Bavaria. More than 6000 patients are registered worldwide.
Coronavirus: Suspected case in plane from Frankfurt Airport not confirmed
Update from Wednesday, January 29, 2020, 5.15 p.m .: According to "Focus", the suspected case of coronavirus in a Lufthansa aircraft on Wednesday has not been confirmed. On the flight LH780 from Frankfurt, which landed in Nanjing, there was a man who was classified as a risk case by the Chinese authorities. Meanwhile, Lufthansa has canceled all flights to and from China for the time being.
Update from Wednesday, January 29, 2020, 4:39 pm: Lufthansa is canceling its flights to and from China. Europe's largest airline with its daughters is following its competitor British Airways and other airlines in view of the novel corona virus , as the company confirmed on Wednesday in Frankfurt. "Bild" had previously reported.
Update from Wednesday, January 29th, 2020, 3:55 pm: According to "Bild", Lufthansa plans to discontinue flight operations to China for the time being due to the corona virus . Accordingly, the precautionary measure should initially apply until February 9. Lufthansa has not yet commented on the rumors.
Coronavirus Frankfurt Airport: Suspicion found in Lufthansa aircraft
Update from Wednesday, January 29, 2020, 2:48 p.m .: There was a suspected corona virus on board a Lufthansa aircraft . The company in Frankfurt confirmed that flight LH780 from Frankfurt, which landed in Nanjing on Wednesday morning (January 29, 2020), was attended by a man who was classified as a risk case by the Chinese authorities.
The Chinese are said to have coughed and were in Wuhan City two weeks earlier, where the novel corona virus was first noticed. It was initially unclear whether he was actually infected. The website "Aerotelegraph" had previously reported.
The passengers, who sat three rows in front and behind the man, were examined by the Chinese authorities as well as the crew of the Airbus A340, said the Lufthansa spokesman. Flight attendants and pilots then immediately switched to the next plane to Frankfurt . The return flight LH781 should land in Frankfurt on Wednesday evening. The German authorities have been informed of the procedure, the airline said.
Coronavirus Frankfurt Airport: Clinic in Wiesbaden isolates suspected case
Update from Wednesday, January 29, 2020, 2:10 p.m .: The Merck Group in Darmstadt advises its employees against trips to China due to the corona virus . The approximately 56,000 employees are advised not to travel to the People's Republic in February or at least to postpone it, the pharmaceutical and chemical group announced on Wednesday.
Merck is also partially represented in China and has almost 4,000 employees there.
Update from Wednesday, January 29th, 2020, 1:42 p.m .: After the confirmed four cases of coronavirus in Bavaria, a patient in Wiesbaden now also shows symptoms of lung disease from China. As "merkurist.de" reports, he is currently in the Wiesbaden Dr. Horst Schmidt Clinics (HSK) treated. It will be announced later in the day whether the suspected coronavirus is confirmed.
According to the HSK, the affected patient suffers from a respiratory illness. It cannot currently be ruled out that this is the corona virus. The necessary examinations were initiated immediately, and the health department is also informed. According to the HSK, the operation of the hospital is not impaired due to the suspected coronavirus case.
Corona virus in Frankfurt? Test results are there quickly
Updated on Wednesday, 01.29.2020, 12:19 Dr. Antoni Walczok (Frankfurt Health Office) confirms: So far there have been no people suffering from the corona virus in Frankfurt. Prof. Dr. Sandra Ciesek (Institute for Medical Virology at the University Hospital Frankfurt): “We can recognize the coronavirus very quickly, also here in Frankfurt. The first results of the tests are there after 4-5 hours. "
Corona virus: Germans are flown out of Wuhan (China) to Frankfurt
Update from Wednesday, January 29, 2020, 9:28 a.m .: Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) commented on the corona virus in the ZDF morning magazine. Apparently about a hundred Germans want to be flown out of the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan. This region is particularly affected by the new virus. According to Spahn, preparations for this flight, which is due to land in Frankfurt, are "on the right track".
However, the Federal Minister left it open how the arriving Germans will be dealt with after their arrival in Frankfurt and whether they may be directly isolated. "We are in contact with the Hessian authorities there," said Spahn.
Corona virus: Lufthansa wants to continue flying from Frankfurt to China
Lufthansa continues to fly to China for the time being. "We are monitoring the situation very closely," said a Lufthansa spokesman on Wednesday on request. All flights to and from China are currently on schedule. However, the airline observed a "slight reluctance to book". British Airways, on the other hand, had discontinued direct flights between Great Britain and China on Wednesday due to the novel corona virus. This followed the UK travel agency's airline travel warnings.
Update from Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 9.40 p.m .: Respiratory masks are now sold out in the pharmacies in Hesse. That's what the chairman of the Hessian Pharmacists' Association, Holger Seyfarth, told the Hessischer Rundfunk. The reason for this, according to Seyfarth, is the fear of the corona virus. The wholesaler is also currently unable to supply respiratory masks.
Bernd Salzberger, chairman of the German Society for Infectious Diseases, believes that wearing respiratory masks to avoid being infected with the coronavirus is nonsensical. According to the expert, the surgical face masks were not made to protect against infection. It only makes sense, for example, to wear a mask to protect other people as a flu patient.
In Bavaria, four patients are now infected with the coronavirus. The Bavarian Ministry of Health announced in the evening.
Coronavirus in Hessen: Frankfurt Health Office sets up a hotline
Update from Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 6:31 p.m .: Whether and which consequences the detection of the corona virus in Bavaria has for Hesse is currently being voted on, a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Social Affairs said on Tuesday ( January 28, 2020 ) in Wiesbaden to the German Press Agency. Everyone involved would be in close contact. The previous day, the Ministry of Social Affairs had announced that Hesse was prepared to react quickly in the event of an emergency so that it would not spread.
Citizens can find out all they need to know about the corona virus on the ministry's website - and for further questions, you can also contact a hotline. The Frankfurt Health Office set this up in coordination with the Ministry. The info hotline is available Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The number is: 069/21277400.
Coronavirus in Hessen: Hospitals are preparing
Update from Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 2:42 pm: According to the State Ministry of Social Affairs, all hospitals in Hessen are prepared to provide patients with new types of infectious diseases. Those affected are isolated, and appropriate protective clothing is essential.
Update from Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 2:30 p.m .: There is currently a suspected case of the corona virus in Göttingen. The current suspected case had contact in China and was referred by the family doctor to the University Medical Center Göttingen. It is checked whether the person has actually contracted the corona virus.
Corona virus: Airplane with patient can theoretically head to Frankfurt Airport
Update from Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 11:10 a.m .: The first confirmed coronavirus case in Germany is apparently the first known person-to-person infection outside of Asia. The Bavarian Ministry of Health wants to set up a hotline for concerned citizens.
Whether fever is measured at German airports, as is already practiced at other airports, has not yet been decided, reports n-tv.
Protective measure: What do respirators bring against the corona virus?
Update from Tuesday, January 28th, 2020, 07.10am: Now an infection with the new corona virus has also been confirmed in Germany for the first time. A man from the district of Starnberg in Bavaria was infected with the pathogen, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Munich.
Update from Sunday, January 26th, 2020, 7:33 pm: The excitement surrounding the corona virus also seems to be increasing in Germany. As confirmed by a spokeswoman for the University Hospital Frankfurt on request, the clinic is currently registering an increased number of patients. These are presented there because of suspicion of the corona virus . As the spokeswoman explains, the people concerned would be isolated and examined. However: "So far, none of these patients have been able to detect the new coronavirus."
Coronavirus: Frankfurt Airport braces itself for suspected cases
Updated on Sunday, 01.26.2020, 15:28: A plane in which a passenger may contribute to the coronavirus in itself, may only control five airports in Germany - including Frankfurt. This is reported by the dpa news agency. In addition to Frankfurt Airport , Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Munich and Berlin are also an option for machines suspected of being coronavirus.
Aircraft with suspected coronavirus could head to Frankfurt Airport
That said the managing director of the airport association ADV, Ralph Beisel, of the "Rheinische Post" in their Monday edition. The WHO health regulations therefore stipulate that these airports must have core capacities available to protect public health. In the event of a suspected case of the corona virus on board the aircraft, the aircraft in question would be diverted to one of the five airports.
"Emergency plans for dealing with dangerous infections at German airports have existed for years and have proven themselves in the past, for example in 2003 at Sars, in 2006 in a case of Lassa fever or in 2009 as swine flu spread," said the expert.
Update from Thursday, January 23, 2020, 10:37 a.m .: All of Germany is on alert due to the corona virus. There is also great excitement at Frankfurt Airport . After all: No direct flights land in Frankfurt from Wuhan in China , the place where the corona virus broke out.
Corona virus at Frankfurt Airport: world in fear of lung disease from China
And: If there is a suspicion of having a sick person on board when an aircraft arrives, the machine must be redirected to one of five airports according to the rules of the World Health Organization (WHO). In Germany these are Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Munich, Frankfurt as well as Tegel and Schönefeld in Berlin. The background: These airports have certain supply capacities.
However, temperature measuring devices should not be installed in Frankfurt at the airport or at any other airport in Germany. "It doesn't do anything. This has been shown by many epidemics in recent decades, ”René Gottschalk from the Frankfurt Health Office told“ ntv ”about the corona virus. Instead, they rely on the human feel of the specially trained employees at the airports.
In addition, the risk in Germany and especially at the airport in Frankfurt in relation to the coronavirus is assessed as low.
Frankfurt Airport: Alert level due to coronavirus - lung disease from China
First report from Wednesday, January 22, 2020, 10:43 am: Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport is preparing for the corona virus from China . Various measures are ordered to prevent this from spreading in Germany. As a spokeswoman for the airport told the newspaper, plans had already been drawn up. These would apply if the authorities in Frankfurt issued a warning.
Frankfurt Airport: Coronavirus spreads in China - more and more fatalities
However, there is currently no warning from the authorities. The corona virus broke out in Wuhan City in December. Where exactly the virus comes from is currently still unknown. There are no direct flights from this Chinese city to Frankfurt Airport . However, there were around 6,900 flights to and from China last year. Nothing is known about figures from this year, as the spokeswoman said.
The diseases caused by the novel corona virus in China have now spread again by leaps and bounds. According to a new interim report by the Chinese government on Wednesday, the death toll increased by a further three to at least nine. The total number of diseases grew by more than a hundred new cases to around 440.
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The World Health Organization wants to deal with the pathogen in a crisis meeting on Wednesday (22.01.2020). The aim is to clarify how the corona virus should be handled worldwide.
Frankfurt Airport: How experts deal with a possible infection of the corona virus
The Robert Koch Institute has published recommendations for dealing with the coronavirus from China . Doctors should adhere to these to prevent a possible pandemic.
If a patient has typical symptoms of severe respiratory disease and has been in the risk area within the 14 days prior to onset of the disease, the patient must be isolated. This includes measures such as accommodation in a wet room with a lock. But the personnel must also protect themselves from a droplet infection with respiratory masks and goggles.
The health department must also be informed. At the same time, samples from the patient would be sent to a special laboratory at the Charité Berlin.
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