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Corona in Germany: Other districts are running out of intensive care beds - the situation around Munich is serious

2020-11-16T20:15:50.940Z


Germany is deep in the second lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic. Other districts no longer have intensive care beds. The news ticker.


Germany is deep in the second lockdown of the coronavirus pandemic.

Other districts no longer have intensive care beds.

The news ticker.

  • 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

    )

  • This

    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

.

Follow all developments

regarding the corona pandemic in Germany

here in the

news ticker

.

(pm)

* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network

Source: merkur

All news articles on 2020-11-16

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