A neighboring country of Germany is currently struggling with high corona numbers.
The country's current seven-day incidence is 750.
A
neighboring German country is
struggling with alarmingly high new corona infections.
The
seven-day incidence *
is 750.
Within the last week, the number of
new corona infections
almost
doubled
.
Luxembourg - A neighboring country of Germany struggled with particularly high numbers on Wednesday.
The small state of
Luxembourg
has just under 620,000 inhabitants, but the number of
corona cases
exceeds the value of many German metropolises.
The number of
new corona infections
has risen sharply, especially in the past week.
Compared to the previous week, it grew by 39 percent to 4701 cases, as the Ministry of Health announced in Luxembourg on Wednesday.
The so-called
incidence rate
, i.e. the number of new infections within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants, rose to 750.
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A care worker in protective equipment looks after a corona patient (archive image).
© Fabian Strauch / dpa
Corona numbers alarmingly high: Luxembourg with an incidence of 750
In addition, the average age of those infected has also increased from 40.3 to 41.2 years.
In just one week, the number of active infections rose from 4683 to 8224 cases.
171 people in
Luxembourg
have so far been linked to
Covid-19 *
died.
225 people are in clinics, 30 of them in intensive care units.
The
new Corona wave * has been
spilling over the second smallest country in the EU with a good 600,000 inhabitants for several weeks.
In the German traffic light procedure, an incidence value of more than 100 is considered dark red.
The value of the small country clearly exceeds that.
The
last seven-day incidence
in
Germany
was just under 126.
Corona in neighboring Germany: Night curfew is supposed to help
One reason for the high number of new infections could of course be the proximity to
Belgium
and
France
.
France was one of the first countries in Europe to have a sharp rise in the number of
corona cases
in autumn.
Belgium was most recently the front runner in Europe's corona statistics.
The
coronavirus
did not spread in any other state
*
as fast as in Belgium, the small country was already one of the European hotspots for infections in the spring.
In Belgium, doctors and nurses now have to continue working with Covid without symptoms.
Because it is not the number of intensive care beds that decides, but the specialized scarce staff.
Without interrupting the wave, that threatens us too.
Therefore we need a breakwater shutdown https://t.co/ZrlRHJgtPU
- Karl Lauterbach (@Karl_Lauterbach) October 26, 2020
Since last Friday there has been
a night
curfew
from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m.
in
Luxembourg
and an increased mask requirement - always where more than four people meet.
There has been a partial lockdown
for neighboring
Belgium
since Monday.
(tko / dpa)
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