In September, Angela Merkel had warned against a certain brand of new infections for Christmas.
Now the gloomy fears are likely to come true at the beginning of November.
Angela Merkel *
had
warned of
19,200
new
Corona *
infections
every day
at Christmas
time at the end of September
.
This number has now been almost reached at the end of October, well before the gloomy forecast.
At the beginning of the week,
Peter Altmaier
expected the dangerous mark of around 20,000
new infections
at the
turn of
the month.
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Update from October 30th, 9.29 a.m.:
As the
RKI announced
on Friday morning, the
7-day incidence value
in Germany
has
risen to
over 100
.
The value is now
104.9
nationwide
.
A total of
six federal states
reported
a 7-day incidence value of more than 100.
An overview of the federal states with a 7-day incidence over 100:
Bremen
: 106.3
Berlin
: 146.1
Hesse
: 145.8
North Rhine-Westphalia
: 140.0
Saarland
: 116.5
Bavaria
: 114.1
Corona in Germany: The pandemic is developing more rapidly than Merkel predicted
Update from October 30, 6:20 a.m.:
The number of registered
new corona infections
in
Germany
has
again reached a new
high
with
18,681 new cases
within one day
.
That comes from the information of the
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
from early Friday morning.
Thus have since the beginning of the pandemic in total
499,694 people
in Germany with the
coronavirus
infected.
The Christmas forecast by Chancellor
Angela Merkel
, according to which there could be
around 20,000 new infections
on Christmas Eve
, is getting closer and closer.
The number of
deaths
related to the virus has
increased
by
77
in
one day
to
a total of 10,349
.
According to the situation report on Thursday, the number of reproductions, or
R value for
short
, was
0.97
in Germany
(previous day: 1.03).
This means that one infected person infects another person.
The R-value depicts the infection rate about one and a half weeks beforehand.
Corona in Germany: Number of new infections over 18,000
Update from October 29, 9:12 p.m.:
Angela
Merkel
warned at the end of September that the number of
new infections
in Germany at Christmas could be just under 19,000.
To do this, she used a simple calculation.
There was outrage at the time.
Now it is clear:
The pandemic is developing even more rapidly
than the Chancellor had forecast in her bill.
In Germany, more than
18,000 people are said to have been infected with the corona virus
in 24 hours
.
This emerges from calculations by the broadcaster
ntv
, which has merged the information from the individual state authorities.
The official numbers from the RKI will follow on Friday.
According to the report, there were also 89 deaths.
143,200 people are currently said to be actively infected in Germany.
Corona in Germany: Angela Merkel's gloomy Christmas forecast will soon become reality
First report from October 29th:
Munich - In the government declaration on the
new package of measures
in the fight against the
coronavirus *
,
Angela Merkel
once again pointed to a difficult time: “Winter will be difficult.
Four long difficult months, but it will end. ”The current“ dramatic situation ”affects everyone.
Therefore, the measures are also "necessary and proportionate".
"In the current
exponential infection process
, the hygiene measures can no longer develop their strength".
When it comes to the exponential increase in the number of cases of infection, one should
believe
the
Chancellor by
now.
Because as early as the end of September she warned of a massive increase in numbers at the time.
At
Christmas there
could be 19,200 new infections a day, she predicted at a virtual
CDU presidium meeting
.
At that time, an average of “only” 1665 new infections were reported per week.
Peter Altmeier: The mark of 20,000 new corona infections will be cracked this week
In the meantime, the Merkel forecast has almost caught up with us.
On Thursday alone, the
Robert Koch Institute *
reported 16,774 new cases in Germany - and the trend is rising.
The gloomy 20,000 mark will likely be cracked this week.
Compared to the previous week, the number increases by around 70.75 percent every day.
"And that means: we will probably have 20,000 new infections a day by the end of this week," said
Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier
on Tuesday at the
Franco-German Business
Day
.
This is a number that one could not even have imagined three weeks ago.
"We are dealing with exponential growth," he sums up.
The head of the World Medical Association,
Ulrich Montgomery
, also warned last week that the 20,000 mark would be reached.
From the number the situation gets out of control because the "chains of infection can no longer be traced".
Coronavirus: Henrik Streeck wants to curb fear of new infections
In mid-October, however, it was the
top virologist Hendrick Streeck
from Bonn
who advised against such “apocalyptic” scenarios in particular: “It may well be that we in France will have up to 20,000 new infections per day.
But that shouldn't scare you at first.
It has been seen in recent months that the number of infections has "decoupled a little" from the really severe cases.
"We have to expect that the number of infections will rise so much that contact tracking will no longer be possible." Therefore, the pure numbers of infections should not be disregarded, but they must be viewed in relation to "the number of tests, which are carried out and in relation to inpatient and intensive care occupancy ".
That would give a complete picture of the
pandemic
.
Merkel and Co. nevertheless invoked quick measures to reduce the pure number of infections - also to prevent further gloomy forecasts for the time being.
(ta) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.