While the way out of the corona shutdown is being discussed in Germany, the number of corona infected and dead people continues to rise. The RKI gave a press conference on the current situation.
- The corona virus continues to paralyze public life in Germany.
- Discussions about ways out of shutdown are getting louder.
- The Robert Koch Institute , meanwhile, provides information about the current corona situation in the Federal Republic.
- Here you will find the basic facts about the corona virus *. You can also find current case numbers in Germany here as a map *. The following recommendations for corona protective measures * are currently available.
Update at 19:23: Corona in Schleswig-Holstein: 53 residents of a nursing home and 19 nurses in the Stormarn district have tested positive for the corona virus . No serious illnesses have yet occurred. The home is mainly home to people with dementia and people with mental disorders.
Update at 6:12 p.m .: Positive news from Rhineland-Palatinate : The number of seriously ill Covid 19 patients has practically not increased there in the past week. The Mainz Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday that 358 people infected with the coronavirus are currently being treated in clinics in Rhineland-Palatinate. Compared to Tuesday a week ago , this is an increase of only nine cases .
In the same period, the number of intensive care corona patients even fell from 133 to 120. Of these, 108 currently require ventilation, one more than seven days ago.
Corona virus in Germany: French people are horrified by the behavior of Germans
Update at 5.47 p.m .: French politicians complain about hostility towards their compatriots because of the corona virus . Defamation is said to have occurred in the German-French border region in the Saarland , as Christophe Arend, a deputy from Forbach in Paris, describes the newspaper Le Parisien (Monday edition):
"I know many people in my constituency who are very upset with the Germans , who have made more than derogatory comments about the French." French cross-border commuters were treated "like leper" in their German companies.
Update at 5.11 p.m .: The number of corona victims in a Wolfsburg nursing home has risen to 38 residents. As the city of Wolfsburg announced on Tuesday, a 79-year-old woman and an 81-year-old man who were infected with the virus died.
Update at 4:55 p.m .: On Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel will call the heads of government of the federal states over the phone to discuss the possible easing of the requirements to contain the coronavirus *. According to Armin Laschet, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, the decision on how to proceed is based on the state of research. Study results from the community of Gangelt in the Corona center in Heinsberg , the expert council of the federal state and an expert opinion from the Leopoldina research community are included.
Corona virus in Germany: NRW Prime Minister Laschet for Germany-wide solution
According to Armin Laschet , the conditions of the loosening also include more stringent monitoring of the data or compliance with the minimum distance and hygiene regulations. Face masks and face masks are also a topic of discussion.
NRW Prime Minister Laschet is relying on a joint strategy of the federal states in the gradual easing of the measures. For individual areas, such as high school dates, a single solution must also be possible, says Laschet. "Flexibility in basic agreement" is now necessary.
Update at 3.35 p.m .: Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country heads will discuss the corona crisis in Germany on Wednesday. It is about an exit strategy from the exit restrictions and the shutdown.
Corona virus in Germany: Jena tightened mandatory mouth protection
Update at 2:50 p.m .: It is now mandatory to wear a face mask at work in Jena (Thuringia) from Tuesday (April 14).
It affects work rooms in which more than one person works and in which a safety distance of 1.50 meters cannot be maintained. Exception: If 20 square meters per person are available in a room and the safety distance can be maintained.
Corona virus in Germany: "There are 80-year-olds who still play tennis"
Update at 1:03 p.m .: The youngest corona victim in Germany was 26 years old , the oldest 105 . According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), older people in particular die in connection with Covid-19 (see below). According to the RKI, Covid-19-related outbreaks are particularly common in old people's homes, nursing homes and hospitals. Here the number of deceased is comparatively high.
In this context, a debate about the therapy of older and previously ill Covid 19 patients has flared up. Prof. Gernot Marx from the University Hospital Aachen spoke to Deutschlandfunk (Dlf) about the treatment of coronavirus patients. The intensive care physician has rejected demands to treat elderly and pre-ill patients with Covid-19, preferably with palliative care . Each procedure should be coordinated individually. The patient will always be in the foreground.
Age should not be the only requirement, says Prof. Marx in the Dlf . There are perfectly fit 80-year-old people who still played tennis, for example.
Corona virus in Germany: NRW passes pandemic law
Update at 12.37 p.m .: North Rhine-Westphalia has passed the pandemic law in the corona crisis with a large majority. NRW family minister Joachim Stamp (FDP) considers it impossible that in the most populous federal state "schools and day care centers will open again on Monday after the Easter holidays".
Coronavirus in Germany: RKI chief criticizes Leopoldina study
Update at 10.42 a.m .: When asked by a journalist, RKI boss Wieler also commented on the Leopoldina study on Tuesday, which shows possible steps for easing the shutdown . Wieler also carefully criticized the study. Certain key metrics are not known in the paper , he said. He gave the number R, the reproduction number, as an example. It indicates how many people are infected with a corona on average.
As Wieler explained earlier, it is extremely important to reduce this number to a value below one. "The number of reproductions is currently 1.2 , not less than one," emphasized Wieler in his statement at the beginning of the press conference. "We are seeing a slowdown, but that is still not a clear trend, " warned Wieler. "We are still not below 1 with R, so we cannot yet speak of containment, but only of positive tendencies."
Corona virus in Germany: RKI recommends starting school for older age groups
Basically, there are no serious differences between the proposals for easing measures in the Leopoldina paper and the estimates of the RKI , said Wieler. There is only a slightly differentiated assessment regarding the opening of the schools . "It makes more sense epidemiologically to let the older students go back to school first," said Wieler. You might be better off taking precautionary measures, such as distance rules, than younger students.
Overall, the Leopoldina study contained the measures that could be considered, was Wieler's conclusion on the paper. But he also emphasized: "We still don't have a blueprint, this pandemic has never existed before." There is no clear right or wrong and you will have to try a lot.
Update at 10.27 a.m .: RKI boss Wieler announced at the institute's press conference that various antibody studies will soon be carried out. These are designed to help you better estimate how many people have had a corona infection. Wieler hopes that this will provide further insights into the number of unreported cases.
Corona virus in Germany: 300,000 views of the "Corona data donation" app
Wieler also emphasized that every single citizen can contribute to the fight against the corona virus. For example, it is now possible to send a throat swab . Wieler also referred to the institute's newly published “Corona Data Donation” app . "The app has been downloaded 300,000 times since last week," reported Wieler. "This is an incredible success and I can only thank you for the support." The RKI boss announced that the institute would "evaluate this data very sensibly". At the end of his statement, Wieler thanked, but also urged, his audience: "My special thanks to all of you, stay with it and take the illness seriously by continuing to abide by the rules," he said.
Update at 10.18 a.m .: Wieler also reported at the RKI press conference that Covid-19 infected people in Germany were on average 49 years old and that in addition to coughing and runny nose , taste and odorlessness were also frequently reported as symptoms . The proportion of those who died among the Covid-19 infected persons is currently 2.4 percent . "This percentage has increased continuously in the past few days," said Wieler. On the one hand, this is due to the increasing number of corona outbreaks in old people's homes and nursing homes, as well as the development that generally more and more older people would become ill with Covid-19.
Coronavirus in Germany: Wieler expects further Covid 19 deaths
Around 16 percent of the reported cases would currently be in hospitals. Since this means that almost 15,000 people with corona are in hospital treatment , "unfortunately we have to expect that there will be further deaths," predicted Wieler.
Update at 10.08 a.m .: Wieler further explained that there will currently be no shortages in health care and that there are enough intensive care beds available . A further milestone was thus achieved. However, he also emphasized that there are large regional differences in this context.
Test capacities are also to be increased further in Germany. Wieler then went into the corona figures worldwide and especially in Germany. Almost two million people are now infected worldwide , and almost all countries are affected.
According to the latest information from the RKI, there are currently at least 125,098 confirmed corona infections . That is around 2000 more than the day before. In addition, 2969 people who were infected with Covid-19 and have since died . The number of people recovered is estimated at 68,100 people .
Corona virus in Germany: According to Wieler, numbers have "leveled off at a high level"
Update at 10:04 a.m .: In a press conference of the Robert Koch Institute, head Lothar Wieler now gives an overview of the current corona situation in Germany. "The Covid-19 figures in our country show some positive tendencies, " said Wieler. “I thank everyone very much for that. It's nice that our efforts are successful, so let's not let up when we keep to the rules. ”In fact, we would have to continue to wait and see the development, the RKI boss emphasized.
"We decoupled the flu wave from the Covid 19 wave, " he reports. This is important because it means that many intensive care beds are available. The number of cases would indicate that the number of cases has not increased as sharply for several days. But the numbers have "settled at a relatively high level" , there is still no clear indication that the number of cases is falling.
First report from April 14, 2020:
Berlin - At least 126,600 infections with the new coronavirus * have been registered in Germany by Monday evening (previous day at 8:15 p.m .: 124,100). According to the RKI, at least 2994 (previous day as of 8:15 p.m .: 2830) infected with the pathogen Sars-CoV-2 have died nationwide . This emerges from an evaluation by the German Press Agency, which takes into account the latest figures from the federal states. According to estimates by the Robert Koch Institute *, around 64,300 people in Germany survived the infection . This means that around half of those infected so far are now recovered.
Corona virus in Germany: Green bosses want gradual opening of schools
On Tuesday morning it was announced that the Green leaders Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck have spoken out in favor of gradually opening schools and day care centers again - however, accompanied by precautionary measures *. Before Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Prime Ministers discuss what will happen in the Corona crisis on Wednesday, the two wrote a letter to the party members, which is available to the German Press Agency. “Graduating classes should be the first to go back to school,” it says. According to the Green leaders, grades one to six should also have priority, because the care of younger students is particularly important.
Meanwhile, the deputy FDP chairman Wolfgang Kubicki called for the opening of shops from April 19 . "I would have all shops that are currently closed reopened if the distance rules there are adhered to," Kubicki told the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung . This could be done, for example, through admission controls, the Bundestag vice president suggested. Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier (CDU) has now expressed reluctance to reopen retail stores.
So on Tuesday in the ARD morning magazine he avoided making an appointment for possible relaxation of the strict rules * . "I don't want to anticipate the Prime Minister, that's a decision made by 16 federal states," said Altmaier.
Coronavirus in Germany: RKI informs about current situation in press conference
"We look at what is going to happen, how the number of infections will develop over the next few days," said Altmaier. That will bring clarity, then you can make a decision. At a press conference , the Robert Koch Institute will be announcing the current corona situation in Germany from 10 a.m. on Tuesday.
By the way: The RKI recently published an anti-corona app, the so-called corona data donation app. How it should help in the fight against Corona and who can register there can be found in the video below.
* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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