Coronavirus: Baden-Württemberg is looking forward to Thursday. Then it's about new measures, easing and rules in the country. Kretschmann demands tests for everyone.
- On Thursday, 30 April talks Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann with Chancellor Angela Merke l in the scheduled conference call on new measures in the corona crisis.
- Baden-Württemberg is one of the federal states with the highest registered number of infections in Germany.
- Kretschmann will likely ask the Chancellor to expand the corona tests nationwide.
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Update of April 30, 1:38 p.m .: Contact blocks will be extended, but museums, exhibitions, memorials, zoos and botanical gardens may, subject to restrictions, reopen. Of course, subject to conditions. The distance rule would have to be observed especially in small and historical buildings. This is what the federal government's draft resolution for chancellor Angela Merkel's consultations with the heads of government of the federal states is saying.
Chancellor Merkel and the heads of state of the federal states advise on easing the Corona rules. The Chancellor wants to go to the press on Thursday afternoon. Details seep in advance. Accordingly, worship services and prayer meetings should be allowed again under certain conditions.
Coroan virus in Baden-Württemberg: What will change on May 1st?
Update from April 30, 9:20 a.m .: Baden-Württemberg would like to start again with a three-step plan tourism and hospitality . According to a recent survey by the opinion research institute YouGov, this is happening too quickly for many citizens, namely 51 percent of those surveyed. That fits the plans of the federal government. Chancellor Angela Merkel will discuss the measures taken in the Corona crisis with the state ministers on Thursday afternoon. It was leaked in advance that there will probably be no further loosening and openings. But the contact restrictions should be extended until May 10th . Echo24.de * reports that anyone hoping to relax the ban on contacts in Baden-Württemberg will have to wait longer .
- Covid 19 cases in Baden-Württemberg 31,609 - an increase of 273 compared to the previous day
- Deaths related to the novel coronavirus: 1,353
Coronavirus in Baden-Württemberg: Cannstatter Wasen has been officially canceled
Update of April 29, 2:08 p.m .: As the CDU parliamentary group announced in the Stuttgart city council on Wednesday, the Cannstatt Volksfest will not take place this year due to the Corona crisis . The second largest festival in Germany was originally planned from September 25th to October 11th. According to the organizers, around 3.5 million people attended the event at Cannstatter Wasen last year.
Baden-Württemberg's Minister of Social Affairs Manne Lucha (Greens) had previously expected a cancellation. The Greens politician said a week ago that major events are currently at greatest risk . "And then it's just that there is an obligation in the hierarchy of needs to protect health at the moment." But especially for the showmen, the further cancellation of a big festival is another bad news: The industry already had the corona-related cancellation of the three-week period Spring Festival on the Wasen suffered badly. The traditional event should have taken place these days.
Update of April 29, 10:48 am: Tübingen's Mayor Boris Palmer (Greens) had called for further easing of the corona requirements on Sat.1 on Tuesday, claiming in this connection that people might be saved “who would be dead in six months anyway would be " . Although he apologized for this drastic statement on Tuesday evening, criticism is nevertheless hailing .
Corona virus in Baden-Württemberg: Palmer receives harsh criticism for his testimony
Jan Korte, the first parliamentary managing director of the parliamentary group Die Linke in the Bundestag, judged Palmer to be "inhumane" . And there was also criticism from the own party. Stuttgart Mayor Fritz Kuhn described Palmer's statement on Twitter as "social Darwinist" .
While Palmer's statement in Baden-Württemberg continues to provoke outrage, an act of violence occurred in the federal state on Tuesday evening, which is now being dealt with by the police in Zell im Wiesental near the Black Forest. A man was killed there. The police are currently looking for the suspect.
In Saxony, Prime Minister Michael Kretschmer, meanwhile, has called for further easing of the corona requirements.
Update from April 28, 9:30 p.m .: Measured against the registered corona cases , as of Tuesday evening, there are currently only two federal states ahead of Baden-Württemberg (31,400): Bavaria (41,800) and North Rhine-Westphalia (32,100).
According to surveys by the dpa , more people with coronavirus died in Bavaria only - at least 1708 people. In Baden-Wuerttemberg there are so far at least 1307 Corona deaths in NRW 1,171th
Coronavirus in Baden-Württemberg: Tübingen Mayor Boris Palmer apologizes
Update of April 28, 8:30 p.m .: Tübingen's Mayor Boris Palmer has once again polarized with sharp statements. This time it was about the coronavirus pandmia , and his thesis that most corona deaths would have died soon anyway because of their pre-existing conditions.
The Green Party politician apologized for this on Tuesday evening. "I would never deny older or sick people the right to live," said the 47-year-old dpa . If he "expressed himself misleadingly or briskly", he was sorry.
Update of April 28, 7:30 p.m .: Antibody tests are a great hope in the fight against the corona virus. But now US researchers are warning of false results.
Corona virus in BaWü: Boris Palmer polarized with statements about corona deaths
Update from April 28, 6.30 p.m .: Drastic words in the coronavirus crisis from Baden-Württemberg .
The Mayor of Tübingen, Boris Palmer, has vehemently called for the corona measures to be relaxed - and thereby polarized.
"I'll tell you very brutally: We may save people in Germany who would be dead in six months anyway," said the Greens politician on Sat.1 breakfast television.
Mayor of Tübingen: Boris Palmer.
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According to Palmer , mainly people with previous illnesses would die from Covid-19 who would not have had to live long anyway. The economic consequences of the lockdown, according to Palmer, would be much more serious.
Update from April 28, 4.15 p.m .: Positive update also from the Rhine-Neckar region.
As reported by the news portal heidelberg24 this Tuesday, there were only two registered new infections with the insidious corona virus within 24 hours .
The number of people infected with Covid-19 rose to 875, but 735 of them are considered recovered. The report says there have been 29 corona deaths across the region.
Corona in Baden-Württemberg: Stuttgart health chief praises - and admonishes
Update of April 28, 4 p.m .: A report by the head of the city's health department has given an insight into the corona situation in the state capital of Baden-Württemberg.
Stefan Ehehalt announced good news. According to the Stuttgart-based news agency , the head of public health said that it was "absolutely the right time" when there were only 75 registered coronavirus infections in the city .
The number of people who can be proven to have Covid-19 in Stuttgart never exceeded 463 afterwards, he went on to say, with 47 deaths with corona the mortality rate was 3.6 percent - and thus significantly below the European comparison (sometimes ten percent). In Stuttgart, at least 1,000 people who have since become ill have recovered.
But there was also criticism: He was very worried because "more and more people are pretending to be nothing," he said according to the report.
Corona virus in BaWü: Kretschmann gives little hope of easing
Update of April 28, 12:05 p.m .: Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann comments on the situation in Baden-Württemberg in a press conference on Tuesday .
"We exchanged ideas with virologists and experts yesterday," says Kretschmann. "If there were to be a second wave of infection , the measures would be even more drastic than they are now," warned Prime Minister Kretschmann at the beginning of the state government's press conference.
Before May 6, there would be no further easing , except perhaps at church services. Today's numbers would reflect the state ten days ago and not the current trend. The view of the number of reproductions * remains important. This number fluctuates and must remain below 1.0.
Corona in BaWü: "My heart is bleeding" - the family brewery has to destroy 1,500 liters of beer
Update from April 28, 11:31 am : A Wiernsheim brewery has to destroy beer due to the Corona crisis . Beer garden and festivals are canceled. There are no buyers. The bottling also does not work, reports the SWR . 1,500 liters of draft beer land on Tuesday in a biogas plant. "My heart is bleeding, but through this kind of recycling the whole thing has at least a small value for the general public," master brewer Robert Volk told the broadcaster.
Coronavirus in Baden-Württemberg: 20 more deaths - more than 31,100
Update of April 27, 9:24 pm: By Monday evening, more than 31,100 confirmed coronavirus infections and at least 1,269 deaths in connection with a Covid 19 disease had been confirmed in the state of Baden-Württemberg . This results in an evaluation by the German Press Agency, which takes into account the latest figures from the federal states.
Baden-Württemberg is still one of the regions most affected by Covid-19 in Germany. More infections and deaths recorded only Bavaria . There are also more infected people in North Rhine-Westphalia, but 138 fewer deaths than in Baden-Württemberg.
First report from April 27:
Stuttgart - According to the statistics of the federal states, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg have particularly high numbers of registered coronavirus infections * . According to the current status (April 27), there are 31,043 confirmed infections and 1,249 dead in Baden-Württemberg . This is evident from the figures published by the Robert Koch Institute on April 27th, 2020 at 8:30 a.m.
Corona crisis: Baden-Württemberg takes a special route - Kretschmann wants to test everyone
The Robert Koch Institute does not recommend testing people for the coronavirus * who have no corresponding symptoms, but Baden-Württemberg will decide in future "even people without symptoms but who are in close contact with infected people * or who were last there" state health minister Manne Lucha (Greens) said on Sunday. Even Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Green Party) said that "a significant expansion of Corona test s *" a "very effective way" was to the pandemic to keep under control. "That is why we decided to have significantly more citizens tested for the new virus in the future than before." "Until the federal government has regulated the funding", the state itself will pay financially for this "nationwide unique strategy".
In the future, in Baden-Württemberg we will not only test people with # corona symptoms, but also people without symptoms who are in close contact with the infected or who have recently been. https://t.co/o49fAUNZuA #coronabw #CoronaVirusDE pic.twitter.com/hVX1rdkqFj
- Landesregierung BW (@RegierungBW) April 28, 2020From Monday, April 27, the mask requirement * applies in Baden-Württemberg in all public transport and shops, from 6 years. This does not have to be a so-called surgical mask *, but self-made masks *, scarves or scarves are also accepted. In addition expands Baden-Wuerttemberg , the emergency care in the corona crisis * from. As of Monday, April 27, children should in principle be entitled to emergency care "where both legal guardians or single parents have a job outside of their home and are deemed unavailable by their employer," according to the Ministry of Culture. In the future, children up to the seventh grade will also be looked after. So far, emergency care has been available for children up to sixth grade, whose parents work in the critical infrastructure. It is not the only change that the population will face. Overview of all new regulations that will apply from May 2020.
A retirement home in Berlin had to be cleared because of the corona virus. *
agf / pm with material from dpa
* Merkur.de, heidelberg24.de and echo24.de are part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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