Germany has a new hotspot: Even the Bundeswehr has to help - RKI boss with warning for the coming months

In the Corona crisis, one limit value is currently in focus: the 7-day incidence.

Hamm and Remscheid are currently considered hotspots in North Rhine-Westphalia.

• Hamm (NRW) is a hotspot in Germany with its Corona numbers *.

  The situation is also coming to a head in Remscheid (North Rhine-Westphalia).

• The 7-day incidence is currently considered the speedometer in the Corona situation.

• The trigger is a wedding and a previous party

  (see update from September 25, 4.10 p.m.)

  .

Update from September 27, 5:20 p.m

.: Despite hotspots and increasing case numbers, the current

in Germany is currently under control, says

President of the Robert Koch Institute in a world interview (behind the payment barrier).

The RKI boss assumes, however, that this situation

will change

due to the

, the number of cases will increase.

If the situation changes, the RKI would also inform the public again, said Wieler.

Then there would be “press briefings”.

Corona in Germany: RKI boss explains where the risk of infection is greatest

For RKI boss Lothar Wieler, it is pretty clear

people in Germany are currently infected with

.

"At the moment, people are mainly infected in their private sphere, i.e. at parties, wedding celebrations, funerals, and also in church services," Wieler says in Welt-Talk.

The private sector is currently playing a major role.

At work or in a company, the

.

There were two spectacular outbreaks, but not very many.

Most companies seem to be managing the pandemic well, Wieler told Die Welt.

Apparently there are also few infections in shops.

The RKI, on the other hand, has to analyze the Corona issue in schools well, says Wieler and points to some outbreaks.

Limit exceeded - Bundeswehr has to help in NRW

Update from September 27th, 3:30 p.m

.:

(NRW) has exceeded the critical 7-day incidence.

According to the

(RKI), the value is

(data as of September 27, 12 a.m.) and thus well above the 50 mark. The Bundeswehr is now sending ten forces to Remscheid to help Testing and contact tracking to help, the city announced.

There are currently 111 active corona cases.

According to the city, 386 people, three of whom are returnees, are currently "suspected cases" under domestic quarantine.

For comparison: In Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia) the 7-day incidence is 97.1 according to the RKI (data as of September 27, 12 a.m.).

In the district of Dingolfing-Landau (Bavaria) at 61.3.

For Munich (Bavaria), the institute in Berlin gives a value of 40.2.

Update from September 27, 10:27 a.m

.: What

recently caused a stir

in

, the

the mask requirement, the

now

calling

for all of Germany.

Wearing mouth and nose protection should be mandatory everywhere “where

the distance cannot be maintained

in

- for example at

or busy places - and where the infection rate exceeds the critical limit of more than

100,000 inhabitants has reached or exceeded “, said managing director Gerd Landsberg the newspapers of the

.

Extend the mask requirement?

Before the crisis summit with Merkel, municipalities agree on the question

Chancellor Angela Merkel * (CDU)

wants to

consult

with the

next Tuesday

about measures to counter the increasing number of corona infections.

Previously, the district day had already called for an

of less than

at

parties

.

+

Extend the mask requirement?

The corona infection alarms the association of cities and municipalities.

© Karl-Josef Hildenbrand / dpa

Corona in Germany: Hamm continues to be an infection hotspot - wedding organizer is hostile

Update from September 27, 7:14 a.m.: As expected, the

Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported a comparatively low number of new

on Sunday

.

Within one day, the health authorities had

transmitted

cases, as the RKI announced in the morning.

On Sundays and Mondays, however, the reported numbers are often lower because not all

authorities report data to the RKI

at the weekend

.

On Saturday, the highest value since April was reached with 2507 new infections.

The

was defined by RKI estimates in Germany, according to the management report of Saturday at 1.08 (previous day: 0.91).

The

was 1.17 (previous day: 1.24).

It shows the infection process from eight to 16 days ago.

Coronavirus in Germany: health authorities report almost 2000 new cases

Update from September 26, 9:55 p.m.:

According to information from

, the health authorities of the federal states reported further corona cases in 1977.

It should be noted, however, that Bremen, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Schleswig-Holstein have not passed on any new figures.

North Rhine-Westphalia alone has 625 additional infections.

The number of deaths is seven.

The

is 13.4 cases per 100,000 population.

In Bavaria, Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg this value is very clearly above the

, in North Rhine-Westphalia it is clearly and in Hesse slightly.

Corona hotspot: outbreak after wedding - organizer is fighting against hostility

Update from September 26, 5:25 p.m.:

The starting point for the increase in the number of

in

is the bride's hen party on September 4.

At Focus Online, the event organizer defends himself: “I am

social media for

allegedly driving the

.

Everything went correctly at my celebration. ”46 guests were present at the so-called“ Hennafest ”in an event hall.

There were

laid out and

the

were observed.

After it turned out that two people present were already infected before the celebration, the contact lists were released.

There was

for this.

According to

, the city sees it differently, however, a spokesman

criticized

.

Meanwhile, the organizer of the bachelorette party passes the buck.

"The

spread from the

," he emphasizes.

Many

present there.

He himself had "nothing to do with the spread".

However, the whole development is "uncomfortable because

".

Corona hotspot: The latest new infections can be traced back directly to the big wedding

Update from September 26th, 3:45 p.m.:

After days of highs, the number of cases in

slightly for the first time.

, the

stated

the number of people

in the past seven days

as

.

On Friday it was

.

Nevertheless, the number remains high.

A city spokesman emphasized that it will only be possible to say in one or two days

whether this has already reached a

.

According to the Robert Koch Institute *, Hamm is the city with the highest number of infections nationwide.

Private #Feier | n with 25 to 50 people are notifiable in #Hamm until further notice, with 51 to 150 people even require approval.

All information on: https: //t.co/3kawST4uAQ pic.twitter.com/Y3CwsEHhAX

- City of Hamm (@hamm_stadt) September 24, 2020

The

since

are

to the

with several hundred guests and related other festivities, the spokesman told the dpa.

For a few days

have been subject to

in Hamm

.

Celebrations with 25 to 50 participants must be displayed.

Corona hotspot: Decisive value at almost 100!

Counties demand from Merkel upper limit for parties

Update from September 26, 10.55 a.m

.: The infection

in

alarms politicians.

"We see in Hamm what a lavish wedding with 150 guests can lead to," said District

Assembly President

with a view to a major wedding in the

the

.

The German District Association now calls for a

of less than

at

.

"From 50 participants it becomes logistically extremely difficult to trace the contacts if a Covid-positive was among the company," said Sager.

So far there has been no uniform number of participants for private celebrations,

but this must come

at the meeting between the federal and state governments with Chancellor

(CDU) * next week.

But

Sager does not want to regulate

uniformly

nationwide

.

The

is "a model for

and must be maintained," he said.

"If we

forbid

people in the sparsely populated

to drink a beer in public because all the signals in Munich are red, that would drastically weaken acceptance."

More about the tightening of corona measures in Munich in the video:

Corona virus in Germany: 2153 new corona infections registered - highest value since April

Update from September 26th, 8.55 a.m

.: The number of

in Germany has reached a

since April.

The health authorities in Germany reported

new cases

within one day

, according to the

.

On Friday, the corresponding number was

.

The peak of new infections reported daily was at more than

at the end of March / beginning of April

.

The number then tended to decrease and increase again in July.

In August, the number of cases was just over 2000 (2034).

The number of new infections detected also depends on how many people are tested.

For example, nationwide tests are currently being carried out in schools: 50,000 students are currently in quarantine *.

According to RKI estimates in Germany, according to the management report on Friday, the number of reproductions, or R value for short, was

(previous day:

).

This means that one infected person infects slightly less than another person on average.

Update from September 25, 2020, 4:10 p.m.:

After a

caused a mass outbreak of the virus, 20 people have now also

tested positive for the corona

virus after a

.

As the city explained on Friday, there were nine schoolchildren among those infected who would attend five different schools.

The

will now

all

of the persons concerned

over the next few days

.

It is not yet known how many people will have to go into quarantine.

The celebration is said to have been a private celebration in private rooms.

+

Hamm has developed into the new hotspot in Germany in the past few days.

© Guido Kirchner / dpa

Corona in Germany: The situation in Hamm is coming to a head - the value climbs to 99.9

Update from September 25, 2020, 3:30 p.m.:

With a current

of 95.5, Hamm headed the list of

in Germany

on Friday morning

.

But the number of people infected with the corona virus in the district continues to rise.

While

around 200 people tested positive for the virus

on

and around 2,500 people had to be temporarily quarantined, the number is now increasing.

As the city explains at noon, 207 people have now tested positive for

.

That is 23 new infections more than the day before.

The number of people subject to quarantine is also increasing.

2681 people in the district are therefore currently not allowed to leave their own four walls.

The seven-day value climbs to 99.9.

Coronavirus in Germany: 26 infected people in meat operation - around 500 people are now being tested

Update from September 25, 2020, 2.30 p.m.:

While the

became the current

in Germany

after a wedding three weeks

, a mass test is now starting in

in the Steinfurt district.

A

few days ago,

26 employees of a

tested positive for the virus, and now all around 300 employees are to be tested.

Around 200 other people from the employees' environment should also be tested, according to n-tv.

Results are expected on Saturday at the earliest.

In the

, staff are also said to

have been infected

with the

virus.

As the TV broadcaster further reports, four employees tested positive for the virus.

The emergency care in the clinic is not restricted by this, but some operations that were not urgently necessary have been postponed.

The infected people are said to be a doctor and three contact persons.

There should also be another suspected case in the clinic.

Corona in Germany: Health Minister Spahn calls for holidays in Germany

Update from September 25, 2020, 10.30 a.m.:

The

virus continues to spread strongly in Germany towards the end of the week.

As the Robert Koch Institute explained on Friday, 2,153 new infections were registered across Germany in the past 24 hours.

recorded the highest increase

with around 598 new infections.

But

, 365 new infections, Baden-Württemberg with 252 new infections and Berlin with 238 new infections also continue to report consistently high numbers.

Meanwhile, Health Minister Jens Spahn once again urges a prudent handling of the virus during the holiday season.

Spahn told ZDF that it had already been shown in the past few months that those returning from traveling had dragged the virus to Germany.

"I think we should learn from this together for autumn, winter and Christmas holidays," said the Minister of Health.

The increasing numbers of infections keep the countries of the EU in suspense.

At the same time, there is resistance to new corona measures. 

Corona hotspot Hamm: “Outbreak has overwhelmed us!” 2500 people in quarantine - outrageous details come to light

Original article from September 25, 2020:

Hamm - The Corona situation * in Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia) is getting worse.

After a wedding in the district three weeks ago caused a mass outbreak, the situation now does not seem to be contained by measures already taken *.

The 7-day value, which is important for the assessment, climbed to 95.5 infected people per 100,000 inhabitants on Thursday.

This makes Hamm the current hotspot in Germany.

Corona in Hamm in North Rhine-Westphalia: The situation is getting worse - the number of infections continues to rise

While the

angry about the behavior of the wedding party and had already announced that legal steps will be examined, the situation in Hamm is now getting worse.

At least 100 people tested positive for the coronavirus * immediately after the wedding; according to

around 196 people in the district have

now

tested positive.

Among them are almost 40 children, as the dpa had already

reported

on

.

As the portal further reports, there are currently 2,500 people in

.

“I am angry about this incident.

A single family brought the whole city into this situation and thus puts the coexistence of the different compatriot groups under stress ”, the mayor vented his displeasure with the WAZ.

As the portal further reports, the trigger was a henna festival on the eve of the wedding.

Two women were infected

, but 44 other women were guests

at the

.

The next day the

took place

with around 309 participants.

Corona in Germany: Wedding causes over 100 infected people - but how many are still tested positive?

According to the

it is now being checked who

can be held

.

This could affect the bride and groom or the operator of the location, among other things.

Opposite the portal, Mayor Hunsteger-Petermann confirms once again: “This outbreak overwhelmed us and it also makes me angry.

Because at the henna festival, the

guaranteed not to be observed. "He told Spiegel that following up the contacts was so difficult because the wedding was celebrated three weeks ago.

Corona in Germany: Employees are apparently trying in vain to check contacts

But another point that would make tracking difficult is the incompleteness of the

.

City spokesman Tom Herberg told the Westfälischer Anzeiger: "Contact and attendance lists sometimes did not match".

The employees of the authority would therefore experience little willingness to help from those affected.

As the newspaper further reports, the relatives are even said to be "solidly bricked up".

How many people

were infected

by the wedding and the previous

must now be checked further.

As a further consequence, the city of Hamm is now banning the first family celebrations.

Following a general decree from the city, two hen parties and one engagement party have already been banned.

Accordingly, private celebrations with 51 to 150 participants must be approved, celebrations with 25 to 50 participants must be reported, as reported by

.

Accordingly, around 70 applications should have been received by the city by Thursday.

But what is currently still allowed and what is not?

These questions are answered in an overview from wa.de *.

In order to finally be able to stop the corona pandemic *, experts worldwide are researching a suitable vaccine *.

Researchers in the UK want to deliberately infect around 2,000 people with the virus for this reason.

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