Corona in Germany: RKI reports another increase in numbers - two factors for high R-value

Coronavirus in Germany: The number of new infections has increased.

The number of reproductions has also reached the critical threshold again.

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• The

  Corona *

  cases

  continue to

  rise in

  Germany

  .

• The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) points to a special development in the infection process.

• Would a

  vaccine be

  almost ineffective?

  One expert gives a gloomy forecast.

  (see update from September 11, 11.43 a.m.)

• Basic 

  facts about the coronavirus

  *

   can be found here.

  We also offer you the current number of cases in

  Germany

  on a map 

  .

Update from September 12, 11:15 a.m.:

in Germany were

infected

with the

virus

within one day

.

According to the

, there have been

with the

since the beginning of the Corona crisis

.

The number of deaths is now

- five more than the day before.

Around

people have recovered.

The number of

recorded weekly by the RKI

, on the other hand, has decreased again - for the first time since June (June 22-28).

In the week from August 31 to September 6, a good

counted - around 50,000 fewer than in the previous week.

Meanwhile, a Chinese virologist is making a spectacular thesis on the coronavirus.

Corona in Germany: R-value increases - RKI justifies it with two factors

Update from September 11th, 6:08 pm

: The number of

in

has reached the critical threshold of 1 again.

As can be seen from the management report of the Robert Koch Institute that has just been published, the

rises

from 0.9 to 1.0 (data status: September 11, 12 a.m.).

The smoothed seven-day R climbs from 1.04 to 1.11.

The

writes about the increase: "The increased

can be largely attributed to increasing cases among people entering the country, especially after vacation trips during the summer holidays, but also to a larger number of smaller outbreaks that still exist."

Corona in Germany: police stop Covid 19 criminals - innkeeper wanted to steal half a million euros in financial aid

Update from September 11, 4:32 p.m

.: In

, investigators have arrested a restaurant operator who fraudulently applied for almost half a million euros in Corona emergency aid.

The 32-year-old from

wrongly wanted to sneak 488,000 euros under changing identities, as the public prosecutor in

and the state criminal

investigation office

in

on Friday.

He has been arrested and is on remand.

Accordingly, the businessman applied for

in 18 cases between March and July

, using changing names, company data and accounts.

However, attentive employees of the authorities responsible for the approval became suspicious and sounded the alarm.

So only parts of the requested

paid out.

The investigators spoke of a "high level of criminal energy" that the man displayed for purposes of deception.

He even tried one last time after the officials had searched their homes for the allegations.

Two days after the raid, he

another

.

He was then arrested on Thursday.

Corona: "Germany can afford to step a little less on the brakes"

Update from September 11, 11.43 a.m

.: Germany can afford more infections, says lung expert Prof. Dr.

Torsten Bauer in a picture interview (behind the payment barrier).

The chief physician at the Heckeshorn Lung Clinic at Berlin's Helios Clinic Emil von Behring calls for a

and warns against placing

on a

.

In his opinion, strict measures were taken to prevent the health system from collapsing.

However, 1,000 to 1,500 new infections per day would be too few for “natural immunization”.

“Germany can afford to apply the brakes a little less.

We have one of the

, an overload due to a controlled relaxation of the measures is no longer likely, ”says Prof. Dr.

Torsten Bauer opposite the picture.

Instead of making measures dependent only on the number of infections, the top physician thinks it makes more sense than key figures to consider the occupancy in the clinics.

As of September 10, 233 corona cases, 129 of them ventilated, are being treated in the intensive care unit in a hospital, reports the

.

The Vice-President of the German Society for Pneumology doubts that a

completely prevent

the disease caused by the

.

He even describes it as "unrealistic".

A vaccination can, however, reduce severe courses.

Meanwhile, one country has already imposed a second lockdown.

Corona crisis in Germany: "Switch off panic mode" calls for an expert

Update from September 11, 2020

: The National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) pleads for a further relaxation of the 

 in Germany.

“

”, demanded the

of

,

, in an interview with the business magazine

Business Insider.

With regard to the

currently neither

, nor have the

in

used up.

The

of

and

patients is currently at a

.

Gassen, for example, calls for

at

.

"It doesn't make sense to me why a stadium for up to 60,000 people cannot accommodate events with 5,000 to 8,000 people," said the KBV chairman. It is important that

so that the

be

. " The numbers give reason to rethink corona measures without becoming reckless, ”said Gassen.

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI),

recorded nationwide

since the previous day were

counted

on Friday

.

The

of

of

to

.

Around

have already

.

Corona in Germany: Suddenly almost 2000 - enormous increase in the number of newly infected

Update from September 10, 9:15 p.m.:

There are new figures from the

According to the current management report, the number of

currently

(data status: September 10, 12 a.m.).

The R-value increases slightly compared to the previous day.

An infected person now infects 0.9 people on average.

The

is the calculated that RKI at 1.04 and is therefore also increased.

This value relates to a longer period of time and is therefore subject to smaller fluctuations.

"The

the last 7 days across Germany was

" writes the RKI in its report.

No cases were transmitted from 26 counties in the last 7 days.

In another 131 counties, the

below 5.0 / 100,000 inhabitants.

Update from September 10th, 10.14 a.m

.: The German

explains in the fight against the

the "pure number of infections"

, does not necessarily say anything about the

, the virologist told

.

Rather, for an

, the number of

, the

and the

of hospitals with

(which, according to him, currently

accounts

for around four

all corona cases in this country) must be considered .

Streeck now proposes to

combine

these four key figures into “a

”, which can then be

displayed

“using a

for example

”: “We have

collected

a lot of

the past

that help us to design such a traffic light, which simply reflects the current situation.

And if we act accordingly, then we have a good chance of

making it

through the

well

, ”he said.

However, after almost nine months, a corona balance can be drawn: This is how deadly the virus is in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

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Virologist Hendrik Streeck would find a "Corona traffic light" useful for orientation.

© Federico Gambarini / dpa

Update from September 10th, 7.25 a.m.:

After the number of

with the

had increased significantly in the past few weeks, but then remained at a constant level, the

now recorded another significant increase in the officially recorded

.

Accordingly, around 1892 new

recorded

in the past 24 hours

.

On

, the RKI reported a significantly lower number with around 1176 new infections.

According to the

number of fatalities increased

by a further three people to 9341.

Corona in Germany: RKI publishes figures from Wednesday

Update from September 9th, 10:17 pm

: New figures from the

.

The

is according to the current management report of the

0.88 (data as of September 9, 12:00).

The

drops significantly compared to the previous day, when it was 1.10.

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

The

depicts the infection rate about one and a half weeks beforehand.

In addition, this gives

a so-called

on.

The value relates to a longer period and is therefore less subject to daily fluctuations.

According to RKI estimates, this value was 0.95 (previous day: 0.98).

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

Corona in Germany: Foreign Office extends travel warnings for Europe 

Update from September 9, 8:09 p.m

.: The

expanding its travel warnings for

.

The cities of

and the neighboring Swiss

, the Croatian holiday resort of

and

in the Czech Republic, where the corona numbers reached a new record on Wednesday,

are now affected

.

In addition, the already existing travel warnings for parts of

expanded.

Accordingly, due to the high number of infections,

 warnings

are now also given against 

 and the regions 

, 

, 

, 

 and 

.

Due to the increased number of new corona infections, travel warnings had already been issued for the

with the capital

and the

.

Corona in Germany: After Covid-19 outbreak in local - police are investigating

Update from September 9, 4:40 p.m

.: A corona outbreak in a restaurant hit the headlines in May.

After a party in a restaurant in East Frisia (Lower Saxony), more than 30 guests of the 50 were infected.

Two of the infected later died.

Now the police and the public prosecutor's office are investigating the suspicion of negligent homicide.

All those present at the time should be questioned, said a spokeswoman for the Aurich public prosecutor on Wednesday.

She did not mention the name of the restaurant in Lower Saxony.

According to a report in the Ostfriesen-Zeitung (behind the payment barrier) it is the "old barn" in Moormerland (Leer district). 

The suspicion is directed against unknown, said the spokeswoman.

“At the moment we only have witnesses who will be questioned.

We have no accused. ”One possibility of culpable behavior is if someone went to the celebration even though he was already showing suspicious symptoms.

The police should reconstruct the course of the evening as precisely as possible, she said.

As far as we know from May, three guests had shown symptoms before the evening that indicated Covid 19 disease.

Because of the corona outbreak in the closed society, around 200 people were quarantined, including employees of the Meyer shipyard in Papenburg.

The restaurant operator emphasizes that he has always followed all hygiene guidelines with regard to the corona virus.

In the meantime, African swine fever could have broken out in Brandenburg.

Corona crisis in Germany: Flat-rate travel warning for around 160 countries ends

Update from September 9, 1:11 p.m

.: The

for almost all around

outside the EU and the Schengen area free of border controls will end on September 30.

From October 1, according to a decision by the Federal Cabinet, there will be assessments tailored to the situation in the individual states, as the dpa news agency learned from government circles on Wednesday.

On the website of the Federal Foreign Office (AA) you can find the information about the lifting of the general travel warning from October 1st and the differentiated travel and safety information for individual countries that will then apply.

 Corona in Germany: Charité study - no increased risk for train drivers

Update from September 9, 12.53 p.m

.: According to a Charité study, employees of the Bahn are not exposed to an increased corona risk.

Train attendants, train drivers and maintenance mechanics were examined for corona infection and antibodies as part of a study by the Berlin University Clinic.

According to the railway, 600 train attendants for IC and ICE trains, like all 1000 test persons in total, were randomly selected and were voluntarily tested from June 29th to July 3rd.

Employees with customer contact, such as train attendants, were therefore even less affected than other employees.

Carnival start on 11.11.

- 17 clubs cancel “with a heavy heart” because of the corona pandemic

Update from September 9, 12.42 p.m

.: The

in

(Rhineland-Palatinate) is canceled due to Corona.

In any case, the foolish event at the

and the

in January 2021 was canceled, the President of the Trier Carnival Working Group (ATK), Andreas Peters, told the dpa news agency on Wednesday.

Representatives of the 17 affiliated clubs decided on Tuesday evening with a "heavy heart".

It is not possible to offer these events under the current Corona requirements on distance and hygiene.

Corona in Germany: "Have to watch developments closely"

Update from September 9th, 9.22 a.m

.: Since mid-July (as, by the way, also in Great Britain) there has been an increase in the number of cases transmitted, which has

stabilized

in the

, is in the Covid-19 management report of the

(RKI) to read.

Nationwide, there are different outbreaks in different districts that are associated with family celebrations, parties and also return travelers.

The current development must be observed very closely.

Younger people

make up a relatively high proportion of new infections.

An RKI graphic shows which age group has been affected by the infection process since the beginning of the corona pandemic (Figure 8, RKI situation report of September 8).

At the beginning of the corona pandemic, the age groups of

and

were the

to be

infected

, explains the RKI.

Then the group of over 80s followed.

After a decrease in all age groups, according to the RKI, there is currently an increase in the age group of

, followed by the age group of

and now also the

.

Only in the age group over 60 years of age does the infection rate remain at the low level of the previous week.

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RKI graphic: Presentation of the reported COVID-19 cases / 100,000 inhabitants in Germany by age group and reporting week (September 8, 2020, data status 0.00 a.m.)

© RKI

In the past 24 hours, a

particularly large number of new infections have been registered

in

and

, as a look at the RKI statistics shows.

Of the total of 1176 corona cases in Germany, the numbers are mainly distributed between these two federal states.

The table (see below) lists all federal states with new infections over 15 corona cases.

In

, where there was a serious traffic accident near Paderborn, officially 183 new infections were recorded in the past 24 hours.

For comparison: On Tuesday the number in

Rhine-Westphalia was

The RKI does not explain why the numbers in Germany's most populous federal state fluctuate so and whether they are meaningful.

However, the RKI points out that there may be a delay in the data at individual health authorities.

No data was transmitted from Hamburg on Tuesday.

Coronavirus in Germany: RKI reports more than 1000 new infections

Update from September 9, 6:24 a.m.:

The health authorities in

reported

within one day

.

This was announced by the

.

Since the beginning of the Corona crisis, at least 253,474 people in Germany have been proven to be infected with the Sars-CoV-2 * virus.

By Wednesday morning (September 9), around 228,000 people had

survived

the

.

The number of deaths in connection with a corona infection is 9338. That is

compared to the previous day.

According

to

in

(R value *) was

1.10 (previous day: 1.12) according to a statement on Tuesday (September 8).

This means that one infected person infects a little more than one other person on average.

The

depicts the

about one and a half weeks beforehand.

Corona in Germany: the number of cases in NRW is apparently increasing enormously

The data in the

shows that of

from August 31 to September 6

, for whom information on the country of

is available,

.

Viewed over a period of four weeks,

,

,

,

and

and

most frequently named as likely infection countries.

Like

reported that the number of cases has

recently increased enormously

, especially in

.

According to reports from Tuesday evening (September 8),

within 24 hours.

It was followed by

with 413 new cases and

with 257 cases.

Corona in Germany: waiter goes to work despite infection - consequences for all guests

Update from September 8, 8:55 p.m.:

The next

- this time in

As ntv.de reports, a

waiter

apparently

infected

with the

virus did not adhere to the

- and instead went to work as usual.

The

was allegedly known to him, it continues.

And: The responsible health department must now check around 400 contacts of the man.

A colleague who

greeted

the waiter without a

mask had also tested positive for the

.

In the case of the other contacts, the risk of infection is classified as low, since the waiter otherwise wore a mask and adhered to the distance rules.

This is probably one of the reasons why there is no quarantine for the guests - but for the man's colleagues.

As

continues to write, the

now expect a penalty.

Update from September 8, 8:40 p.m.:

Prime Minister

has announced far-reaching innovations in the

at a press conference

.

"Winter is coming," said the regional chief from

after a meeting of his cabinet this Tuesday: "We are facing a practical test."

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Corona in Germany: The number of cases is increasing (symbol image).

© Fabian Strauch / dpa

Corona pandemic in Germany: Many restaurateurs fear for their existence

Update from September 8th, 8:30 p.m.:

The

poses

major problems for the Federal Republic's

.

This has been known for a long time, but is becoming more and more tangible.

A survey by the German hotel and restaurant association,

, among its members has now shown that almost two thirds of the

do not know whether they can still keep their business.

Accordingly, 61.6 percent of companies fear for their existence. 

Dehoga: Hospitality Industry Expects 50 Percent Revenue Reduction https://t.co/mnCQChntnM via @faznet

- DEHOGA Bundesverband (@DEHOGA_BV) September 8, 2020

According to the survey,

expect

their sales to

collapse by half

this year due to the

and its consequences.

The association is talking about the greatest crisis of the post-war period, reports the

. 

Update from September 8, 6:50 p.m.:

An epidemiologist warns of the danger of many

infected

with the

by starting

.

This is also very bad

for controlling the

.

Corona pandemic in Germany: Angela Merkel thanks health authorities

First report from September 8th:

The

is still the dominant topic in Germany.

In this country, the

play a central role in combating the disease

.

At an online conference on the public health service on Tuesday (September 8th),

(CDU)

praised

the work of the authorities.

In a recent survey, a majority of Germans see it that way too.

Coronavirus in Germany: Chancellor Angela Merkel sees room for improvement

At a virtual conference on the work of the

in Germany,

thanked the employees for their work.

The

responsible for tasks "that result in an incredible amount of additional work," she said.

What the employees do every day is “unusual”, according to

.

The

a “central role” in combating chains of

during the crisis

.

According

to the Chancellor,

they have a "significant part" in the fact that Germany is

relatively stable in terms of

the number of

. The second wave * is only starting slowly. In other countries, it often does not look like that. In Austria in particular, the number of infections is increasing again worryingly on.

The federal government is investing 4 billion euros in the public health service of the federal states.

@jensspahn: "The aim is a networked system of modern health authorities throughout Germany."

pic.twitter.com/rKjYz6aqK4

- BMG (@BMG_Bund) September 5, 2020

The

sees room for improvement, especially in the technical area.

The "digital possibilities" of the

leave a lot to be desired, according to

. The personnel could also be better positioned. That is why the federal and state governments agreed in the "Pact for the Public Health Service" to create 5,000 new jobs

for all measures.

Corona in Germany: Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder with a clear message

(CSU) and

(SPD)

also spoke at the event

.

The public health service has never been "as valuable" as it is today, said

in his welcome.

"Superhuman" things have been done there in the past few months.

But he also followed the praise with a demand.

“Just praising or clapping” would be too little, warned the

.

The working conditions must be improved sustainably.

For the social democrat

, it is particularly a matter of

strengthening

the

and

providing them with

better technical equipment.

Networking with other parts of the health system must be improved.

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Corona virus in Germany: Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder calls for better working conditions.

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Corona in Germany: The majority of Germans are satisfied with the Corona measures

In a recent survey, a large majority of citizens said they were satisfied with their work at the municipal level - that is, in the

.

60 percent of those surveyed think that the measures have proven themselves in containing the virus *, it was announced at the German District Association.

At 67 percent, approval was highest among 30 to 39 year olds.

"People are

overwhelmingly satisfied

with the work of the districts and municipalities in dealing with the

," said District

(CDU).

Coronavirus in Germany: "The pandemic can be managed well decentrally"

Sager

, who comes from the Schleswig-Holstein district of Ostholstein, went on to say that the fight against the

in good hands in the hands of the districts and municipalities.

"If we have been able to learn

one thing

in the past six months, it is this: The

can be managed well on a decentralized basis."

The

president again spoke out in favor of the fact that measures should not be the same everywhere, but must be adapted to the respective local conditions.

Coronavirus: These are the current numbers in Germany

According to the latest information from the

(RKI), the

1499 new cases on Monday (as of September 8, midnight).

Thus, since the beginning of the

252,298 people in Germany

have been

infected

with the

.

226,500 people have already survived the disease.

After four more deaths, the number of victims of the

is 9,329.

1499 # Coronavirus cases in 🇩🇪 reported by the RKI for yesterday.

Of these come from:

Bavaria 506

Baden-Württemberg 269

NRW 262

Hesse 133

Lower Saxony 88

Rhineland-Palatinate 70

Berlin 65

Hamburg 41

Schleswig-Holstein 24

Brandenburg 12

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- Olaf Gersemann (@OlafGersemann) September 8, 2020

The number of reproductions * - also called the

- is now 1.12.

It has risen steadily from 1.0 in the past four days.

The previous day the value was 1.10.

Thus, one infected person infects more than one other person with the

.

The

gives a seven-day R-value.

This is 0.95.

While the first number

reflects

the

the last seven days, the second number describes a period from eight to 16 days and is therefore more meaningful.

The pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca stopped the crucial test phase in the development of a corona vaccine because a test person became ill.

Chief virologist at the Charité in Berlin, Christian Drosten, is getting reinforcements for his NDR podcast.

In Argentina, a professor dies of the consequences of her corona infection during an online lecture.

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