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Corona in Augsburg: seven-day incidence over 300 - the city receives extra financial aid from the state

2020-11-11T11:18:01.684Z


Augsburg is one of the big corona hotspots in Bavaria. Therefore, the city went into lockdown before November 2nd. Nevertheless, the number of infections continues to rise.


Augsburg is one of the big corona hotspots in Bavaria.

Therefore, the city went into lockdown before November 2nd.

Nevertheless, the number of infections continues to rise.

  • Despite the lockdown, the number of infections in Augsburg * continues to rise.

  • Now the Free State has promised further financial aid to municipal companies.

  • The municipal health department receives additional support from the Bundeswehr.

Augsburg

- The corona

virus

* is

raging in the Swabian district capital

.

The number of

infections in Augsburg has been

consistently high

for weeks

.

In addition to

Rosenheim

and the districts of

Berchtesgadener Land

and

Rottal-Inn

, the Fugger city was one of the first

corona hotspots in Bavaria

.

That was also the reason why they went into

partial lockdown

here before November 2nd

.

Coronavirus in Augsburg: Extra financial aid for the city

Just one day after

Prime Minister Markus Söder

(CSU) presented the

partial lockdown

with its strict rules for the Free State, this was implemented in

Augsburg

on October 30th.

Mayor

Eva Weber

(CSU) did not want to wait for the weekend.

At this point in time, the

seven-day incidence

* was still 223. It has now risen again by more than 100 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Currently (as of November 11) the value is 324.8.

The cases that tested positive increased by 109.

There were

968 new infections

in the past seven days.

The #StadtAugsburg reports 109 new Covid-19 cases.

In the past 7 days, 968 new # coronavirus infections were reported in #Augsburg.

This corresponds to about 324.8 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants.


More at: https://t.co/Ks9xGqcZvB pic.twitter.com/k4GZxsxREd

- City of Augsburg (@stadtaugsburg) November 11, 2020

In order

to help

the particularly affected

Corona *

hotspots

, the cabinet decided on Tuesday to increase

financial aid

for the districts of Berchtesgadener Land and Rottal-Inn as well as for the cities of Augsburg * and Rosenheim by another 50 million euros.

The money should help companies and self-employed people to get through this difficult phase.

This is an important sign that the regions are not being left alone with their problems, said

Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger

(Free Voters) after the cabinet meeting in Munich.

Companies will only receive the financial injection if they have already successfully

applied for

lockdown aid from the federal government

.

Coronavirus in Augsburg: The Federal Armed Forces support the health department

In order

to relieve

the employees in the municipal

health department

a little, the

Bundeswehr

has recently been helping out

there.

30 soldiers were assigned to support.

Among other things, they should

track chains of

infection

and

identify contact persons

.

80 employees from other municipal departments were also transferred to the

health

department to

cope

with the high workload, the city writes on Twitter.

In addition, another ten police officers * are deployed in the municipal

health

department.

(tel / dpa)

* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen digital network.

You can always read all the news from Augsburg and the surrounding area as well as all of Bavaria with us.

Source: merkur

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