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Berlin corona collapse: the capital can no longer track infections - the police respond with a major action

2020-10-25T05:29:45.829Z


Berlin has probably lost the fight against Corona. Because the numbers are rising rapidly despite many measures, stricter rules are probably inevitable, says the health senator Dilek Kalayci (SPD).


Berlin has probably lost the fight against Corona.

Because the numbers are rising rapidly despite many measures, stricter rules are probably inevitable, says the health senator Dilek Kalayci (SPD).

  • The Corona * situation in

    Berlin

    is critical, some districts broke

    the 200 mark

    with the

    7-day incidence

    .

  • Health 

    Senator Dilek Kalayci (SPD)

     announced the collapse: The infections can no longer be tracked - stricter rules and a complete lockdown seem only a matter of time.

  • This 

    news ticker

     is updated regularly.

Berlin - The previous pandemic fight without a strict lockdown has probably failed in Berlin.

Because the number of corona cases in the German capital is increasing continuously, there will soon be a complete lockdown in the largest German city.

The Berlin

SPD health senator Dilek Kalayci suspects that

.

Coronavirus Berlin: "A lockdown with stricter rules is just around the corner"

"A lockdown with stricter rules is just around the corner

," she said, and announced that the follow-up of individual corona cases in all Berlin districts has now become impossible.

The reason: the high number of people infected.

All Berliners who tested positive should go into

quarantine

at home

, regardless of whether they had contact with the Ministry of Health or not.

They should also inform all possible contact persons, who in turn should also be in quarantine.

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Mouth and nose protection and an advertising sign for the Corona warning app on the subway window: Scene in Berlin in October 2020.

© Kay Nietfeld / dpa

Two Berlin districts are among the top 3 corona hotspots in all of Germany

Two districts in the capital are among the top 3 hotspots in the entire republic:

Neukölln (2nd place, 211.76 cases per 100,000 inhabitants)

and

Berlin-Mitte (3rd place, 203, 87 cases per 100,000 inhabitants)

.

Bizarre: Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg refused the help of the Bundeswehr, although it is 13th on the nationwide Corona list (130.47).

With voltage which is

meeting

the

Prime Minister

expected on Friday.

The city of

Hamburg has

already decided on its own measures: Only ten people from two households are allowed to meet there in public or private space.

Berliners demonstrate against restrictions

The Berlin police will use the

federal police

with a

large-scale operation

to ensure that the corona rules are respected and so the

reproduction number *

decreases during the second wave.

The operation should last into the night and include 1000 officials.

For Sunday, the police are preparing for several demonstrations against political decisions in the Corona crisis.

A demo is planned for lunchtime (2500 participants registered) at Alexanderplatz, and in the evening (10,000, a “lateral thinking” initiative) at the Großer Stern in the Tiergarten.

* merkur.de is part of the Ippen network.

List of rubric lists: © Kay Nietfeld / dpa

Source: merkur

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