Germany is deep in the second lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic.
Other districts no longer have intensive care beds.
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Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: The number of
corona cases
are also
consistently high
in the
Lockdown Light
*
.
More and more districts are no longer reporting free
intensive care beds
- there is also a shortage in and around
Munich
.
(
First report from November 16
)
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news ticker
is constantly updated.
Update from November 16, 4:45 p.m.:
The declared goal of politics in the
coronavirus pandemic
is
to push
the
7-day incidence in Germany
back to 50.
But most recently this averaged around 140 nationwide.
Using the following graphic, you can
understand
the
7-day incidence
*
, which measures the number of infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days, for your district.
First report from November 16:
Munich / Berlin - The
coronavirus pandemic
*
determines public life in
Germany
- and that will probably continue well into the coming year.
Corona pandemic in Germany: Are the intensive care beds sufficient in the Covid 19 crisis?
In
winter
,
i.e.
the main cold season, the
Corona * crisis focuses on
one question:
Are
the
intensive care beds
sufficient everywhere
to treat
Covid-19
* patients with
intensive
care
if necessary?
As of Monday, November 16, four districts no longer had any capacity in their
intensive care units.
This comes from the
intensive register of
the Berlin
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
*
.
Corona pandemic in Germany: counties with no free intensive care beds (November 16)
Counties (federal state) | Intensive care beds overall | Intensive care beds occupied | by Covid-19 patients |
Fürstenfeldbruck (Bavaria) | 10 | 10 | 30% |
Dachau (Bavaria) | 28 | 28 | 14.29% |
Kitzingen (Bavaria) | 8th | 8th | 50% |
Hochtaunuskreis (Hesse) | 26th | 26th | 30.77% |
It is noticeable that the counties that are
running
out of
intensive care units
are changing.
And they are more likely to be located in rural areas.
However, the situation in
Kitzingen
in
northern Bavaria
remains critical
.
There have been no free
intensive care beds
in the Lower Franconian medium-sized town (around 90,000 inhabitants) for several days
.
Corona pandemic in Germany: Intensive care beds are becoming scarce in and around Munich
It is also noticeable that
the situation is serious
in and around
Munich
(around 1.56 million inhabitants).
According to the intensive care register, 82 percent of all
intensive care beds
in the Bavarian capital itself were occupied on November 16
.
The districts of
Dachau
and
Fürstenfeldbruck
are adjacent.
And in the districts of Freising northeast of
Munich
and Landsberg am Lech (two free beds each) southwest of the Isar metropolis, things are getting tight.
The same applies to the federal capital: In
Berlin
, 87 percent of all intensive care beds are occupied - around a quarter of them by
Covid 19 patients
.
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regarding the corona pandemic in Germany
here in the
news ticker
.
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* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network