Mallorca is not yet a corona risk area. But the fear grows. The number of new Covid 19 infections has exceeded the critical value in the Balearic Islands - the RKI reacted.
- Summer vacation in the corona pandemic : The number of new Covid-19 infections is increasing rapidly in the Balearic Islands .
- According to the measured 7-day incidence, Germany would have to declare Mallorca and Ibiza a corona risk area . Fear is growing in Mallorca.
- Covid 19 crisis : the number of cases in the Balearic Islands is higher than in the rest of Spain or the Balkans - but the islands are still not considered to be coronavirus risk areas .
Update from August 14, 2020, 3:57 p.m .: According to information from the Bild newspaper, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) declares Spain to be a corona risk area. The Balearic Islands are then also affected - and thus Mallorca too! The Canaries are an exception. The paper claims to have found out from government circles.
The classification as a risk area is based on a joint analysis and decision by the Federal Ministry of Health, the Foreign Office and the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs.
Corona numbers on Mallorca are rising rapidly: Foreign Office is now sounding the alarm - is the travel warning coming?
Update from August 14, 2020, 2 p.m .: There is growing fear in Mallorca that it will soon be classified as a risk area. The number of corona cases is high. The Foreign Office (AA) has not yet issued a travel warning for the Balearic island . “Recently, the number of infections has also risen sharply in Castile-Léon and the Balearic Islands, with Palma de Mallorca particularly affected there. In the south of the country and in the Canary Islands, they are still at a low level, ”says the AA website.
There are currently 1,245 active corona cases in the Balearic Islands , 1,179 of them in Mallorca (source: covid19ib.maps) The increasing numbers are worrying. For the Balearic Health Minister Patricia Gómez, however, there are reasons to take corona infections on the islands seriously: More tests would be carried out and corona cases would be identified through so-called tracking. On top of that, there are more social contacts, for example through family get-togethers, said the health minister on Twitter. Especially young people who showed no symptoms of the disease - "asymptomatic" would have been infected with Covid-19. A 20 year old patient would be treated in the intensive care unit. In the Balearic Islands, around 2000 corona tests are currently being carried out per day - more than at the peak of the first wave.
A travel warning for the Balearic Islands would drive many restaurateurs and hotel operators to bankruptcy. "If the number of visitors continues to decline, many restaurants that have so far been able to stay afloat would come to their subsistence level," said "Münchner Kindl" owner Gerlinde Weidinger to focus.de. Already now the vacationers stayed away. Many hotels have already closed their doors again, reports the German-language Mallorca newspaper. At the Playa de Palma , the hotel occupancy is currently 50 percent.
Rapidly rising corona numbers: Germany would have to declare the Balearic Islands a risk area - but it doesn't
First report from August 13, 2020
Munich / Palma - Germany should actually declare the Balearic Islands and thus the popular holiday islands Mallorca and Ibiza to be corona risk areas , but it doesn't. This is suggested by the new Covid 19 figures from Spain and a report by the ARD Tagesschau .
Coronavirus pandemic on Mallorca and Ibiza: The Balearic Islands are not considered a corona risk area
The Balearic Islands are concerned about being declared a corona risk area, the report said. And obviously not in vain. As the Tagesschau reports, the authorities on the Balearic Islands currently count more than 1000 corona infections .
The same applies in Spain and Germany: If 50 new corona cases are registered for every 100,000 inhabitants within a week , the Covid 19 situation in the corresponding region is classified as critical. This now applies to seven Spanish provinces - including the Balearic Islands, it said.
#Mallorca is in fact already a #risk area with 55 / 100,000 inhabitants on a 7-day average. Why is the AA not responding? #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/zD0eNBw7cL
- MaryMüller non-party but not apolitical (@ MaryMueller1904) August 12, 2020The 7-day incidence there is therefore 67 . Spicy: This value is significantly higher than in other countries that are classified as corona risk areas.
Corona value in Mallorca and Ibiza much higher than in Covid-19 risk areas
A look at the Balkans helps to understand. As of August 11, risk areas were: Montenegro, still a vacation destination. There the 7-day incidence was 62.2. And in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the 7-day incidence on the same day was 56.0 - according to the Federal Foreign Office, still a risk area. Spain as a whole had a value of 50.7 - and recently leveled off just above the critical mark.
Another example: The 7-day incidence in Luxembourg was put at 52.9, which is why the Grand Duchy is also a corona risk area - the Balearic Islands, where the value is almost 14 higher, but not.
Corona pandemic in the Balearic Islands: Why are Mallorca and Ibiza not declared risk areas?
But so far the Foreign Office has not declared Mallorca and Ibiza to be Covid 19 risk areas. (pm) * merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network
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