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Corona in Germany: disappointment after Merkel summit - health service sounds the alarm - "Can't do it anymore"

2020-11-18T18:56:31.485Z


The number of new corona infections in Germany is still high. The health authorities are at their limit and demand clear rules. ICU beds are becoming scarce in the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.


The number of new corona infections in Germany is still high.

The health authorities are at their limit and demand clear rules.

ICU beds are becoming scarce in the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

  • Coronavirus pandemic in Germany

    : The number of

    corona cases

    are also

    consistently high

    in the

    Lockdown Light

    *

    .

  • The positive rate rises in the corona tests in Germany.

  • The corona situation in Germany is pushing the health authorities to their limits.

  • 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 17, 10:40 p.m.: Bavaria

is

still in focus

in the

corona pandemic

*

in

Germany

.

The districts of Unterallgäu, Fürstenfeldbruck and Kitzingen are

worries

in the Free State with a view to the

intensive care beds

.

And: In the Franconian city of Fürth there was a

corona outbreak

in a large bakery.

In

Wolf ButterBack

(as of Monday), 62 employees positively to the insidious

coronavirus

tested.

118 contact persons are in isolation, the company said.

And: On Tuesday, all workers who are not in quarantine were

tested

for

Covid-19

.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: the number of children infected with corona is increasing significantly

Update from November 17, 5 p.m.:

The number of

children infected

with

Corona in Germany

*

increases immensely compared to September.

One group of children in particular is more likely to be infected - the latest findings (see link).

Update from November 17, 2:36 p.m

.: The proportion of

positive

corona tests has risen

to the highest level since the beginning of the pandemic (early March).

Around 9.2 percent of the corona test results were positive in the week from November 9th to 15th.

Around 1.26 million PCR tests have therefore been carried out.

At the beginning of October, the so-called

positive rate was 2.5 percent

.

This was announced by the Association of Accredited Laboratories in Medicine (ALM).

Corona in Germany: These regions are sinking into the corona chaos

Update from November 17, 1:03 p.m

.: Red to dark red - the Corona

map of

Germany is getting deeper and deeper.

Only a few

bright spots can still be

seen on the

Covid-19 dashboard of

the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).

Dessau-Roßlau

(Saxony-Anhalt) has the

lowest

7-day incidence according to the RKI, namely

10

(previous day: 13.7).

Otherwise it looks very different.

Almost all of Germany is therefore a hotspot.

  • In only

    three districts

    of 412 reported, the 7-day incidence is below 25: Schleswig-Flensburg District (23.4), Plön (20.2) and Steinburg District (22.9).

  • 375 regions exceed the limit of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days.

  • 23 districts exceed the incidence value of 250, according to the current RKI management report (from November 16).

Corona hotspots in Germany

The

Freyung-Grafenau district

(Bavaria) has approached the 400 mark in the past few days.

The 7-day incidence is currently 371.4 (previous day: 385.4).

In the

Berlin district of Mitte

, the value is 331.0 (previous day: 359.8).

The

city ​​of Speyer

(Rhineland-Palatinate), on the other hand, has a value of

367.9

(previous day: 308.5), followed by the Saxon district of

Bautzen

with 338.3 (previous day: 334.6).

Nationwide, the RKI gives a 7-day incidence of 143.

Corona in Germany: health service sounds the alarm - "Can't do it anymore"

Update from November 17, 9.41 a.m

.: With the postponement of specific

corona decisions

by the federal and state governments to the coming week, the German medical officers are dissatisfied, reports the

AFP

news

agency

.

On the one hand, you can understand "that you are trying to move forward with appeals," said the chairman of the Federal Association of Doctors in Public Health, Ute Teichert, on Tuesday in the

WDR

.

"On the other hand, the health authorities are really up to their necks."

"Health authorities are up to their necks"

"We are no longer able to track the contact persons," said Teichert about the situation of the health authorities.

“Therefore uniform resolutions would have been very helpful for us.

“Teichert referred here in particular to

schools

.

“Many teachers and parents are very insecure,” she said.

"Clear rules would have been good here, as we already have in other areas."

Corona in Germany: RKI reports over 14,000 new infections

Update from November 17, 6:34 a.m.:

Compared to the corona report from last Tuesday, the number of new infections is slightly lower: The health authorities reported

14,419 new corona infections

to

the

Robert Koch Institute

(RKI)

within 24 hours.

That is almost 1000 cases less than a week ago.

The previous high in one day was reached last Friday with 23,542 reported cases.

The number of

deaths

related to the corona virus rose by

267 to a total of 12,814 deaths

in Germany

by Tuesday

.

According to the RKI management report on Monday, the

so-called

seven-day R

was

0.97

(previous day: 1.03).

This means that 100 infected people infect almost 100 more people.

Please note: The value represents the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago.

Corona in Germany: RKI reports current case numbers (as of November 17, 12 a.m.)

Coronavirus infections in Germany

815.746

Deaths related to a Sars-CoV-2

12,814

active corona cases in Germany

287.732

Corona patients in the intensive care unit *

3,484 - of which artificially ventilated in 1982

Covid-19 survived

about 515,200

Corona pandemic in Germany: new, strict corona rules planned

Update from November 16, 10 p.m.: Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)

and the state leaders around Bavaria's Prime Minister

Markus Söder (CSU)

want to announce new strict

corona rules

on November 25

- an overview of the future

Covid-19 contact restrictions

*

.

Update November 16, 20:20:

Even

NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU)

has become the prime minister conference with German Chancellor

Angela Merkel (CDU)

expressed.

The focus will also be with him for

Corona

the

intensive care units

.

“In North Rhine-Westphalia, 80 percent of the

intensive care beds are

occupied.

In some cities it is 90 percent, ”says Laschet in Düsseldorf and calls for a“ national effort ”.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Angela Merkel prepares the Federal Republic for new corona rules

Update from November 16, 7.30 p.m.: Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) *

speaks in Berlin after a mammoth meeting between the federal government and the states about the

corona pandemic

.

“We are a long way from the 50 incidence.

But: We were experiencing strong exponential growth

, we

slowed down the momentum, "says the head of government:"

Contact restrictions

promise success, we need more of them. "

Today, however, there will be no binding resolutions.

On November 25, the

federal government

and state leaders

want to

inform

the population, according to Merkel, about the new

corona rules

, which are to apply "until the new year" so that citizens (and the economy) can better adjust to them, she explains.

Merkel

points out which

Covid-19 rules

and

contact restrictions will

probably come for the winter:

  • Angela Merkel

    : "All unnecessary

    contacts should

    be avoided."

  • The

    Federal Chancellor

    about the

    winter

    months: "We should completely avoid

    private parties

    ."

  • Contact

    restrictions: Each household may only meet one additional household.

  • Corona pandemic

    :

    Tourist trips should be

    avoided in

    winter

    .

  • Public transport

    : Unnecessary journeys by public transport should

    be avoided

    due to

    Corona

    .

  • Risk groups

    : You should only meet older people if you are really symptom-free.

Corona pandemic in Germany: intensive care units in rural regions are struggling

Update from November 16, 7:10 p.m.:

More and more German districts are

literally reaching their capacity

limits

with their clinics in the

coronavirus pandemic

- next example: the

Zollernalb district

.

Located halfway between the state capital

Stuttgart

and

Lake Constance

in the middle of

Baden-Württemberg

.

Specifically:

25 of

the 26

intensive care beds there

are occupied, so one is still free.

As an example: a third of the patients have

corona

.

This cut applies to many

intensive care units

in more rural regions.

+

Virologist from Bonn: Hendrik Streeck.

© Federico Gambarini / dpa

Corona pandemic in Germany: Virologist Hendrik Streeck does not believe in easing

Update from November 16, 5:30 p.m.:

The

virologist Hendrik Streeck

from Bonn commented on the current development of the

corona pandemic in Germany

*

.

Streeck was asked, among other things, whether, as a scientist

, he anticipates

easing

in December.

“That very much depends on how the infection numbers continue to behave.

I do not now expect that we will see such a sharp reduction in the numbers as the federal government would like, "said the 43-year-old virologist in an interview with the

world (live stream)

.

Streeck

said: “We should be discussing a long-term strategy a lot more.

You have to look a lot more at how we deal with this

pandemic in the

long term.

It will remain a marathon, not a sprint, even with a vaccine.

We have to

expect

high

numbers of

infections

until March

.

Even if there is a

vaccine

, that doesn't mean that we won't have any more infections with it. "

Corona pandemic in Germany: 7-day incidence in your district as a graphic

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

.

The corona situation is also worsening in neighboring Germany, Austria.

Several counties have passed an incidence of 1,000 and hospitals are facing the worst.

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

List of rubric lists: © TOBIAS SCHWARZ / AFP

Source: merkur

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