The number of corona cases in Germany is still too high.
There are new hotspots.
The second corona wave is now arriving in the intensive care units.
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Corona in Germany
: The
Corona * case
numbers
are also
high
during the
Lockdown Light
*.
The
Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has been
reporting increasing numbers of corona cases since September.
A downward trend is a long time coming.
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Update from November 25th, 5.58 a.m
.:
Corona hotspot
district
Hildburghausen
(Thuringia) pulls the emergency brake.
Due to the increasing number of infections, schools (28) and daycare centers (40) will be closed from Wednesday.
The 7-day incidence was
482.6
on Tuesday evening
, the Hilburghausen district office announced.
The incidence has now soared above the
500 mark
.
According to the
Robert Koch Institute
(RKI), the 7-day incidence is currently
526.9
.
In the past 24 hours, 81 new corona cases were recorded (previous day: 70).
District Administrator Thomas Müller (CDU) already assumed on Monday that the infection situation will worsen.
"We're going to be marching towards 500 now," he said, referring to the 7-day incidence.
This value has now been reached less than two days later.
Overall, the situation is such that it is hardly possible to identify clear sources of infection.
“It goes across all ages,” said the district administrator.
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Update from November 24th, 5:57 p.m
.: The European health authority ECDC doubts Germany's corona measures: "There are nine countries in which we predict that ..."
Update from November 24th, 3:30 p.m
.: In
North Rhine-Westphalia
(NRW) there will be
no open Sundays in Advent
.
The Münster Higher Administrative Court upheld a claim by Verdi.
The judges expressed "serious doubts about the suitability of the Sunday opening to contain the risk of infection," it said in a statement.
Update from November 24th, 3:25 p.m
.: It already seems clear that the partial lockdown will be extended beyond November.
A doctor criticized the government and warns of an "infinite lockdown".
Corona in Germany: The number of free intensive care beds is falling
Update from November 24th, 12.50 p.m
.: The number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care units continues to increase.
3768 people infected
with
corona
are currently being treated in the intensive care unit (previous day: 3742), of which
2,177
have to be
artificially ventilated
(previous day: 2176).
This can be seen from the data in the DIVI intensive care register.
Currently there are still 5,955 intensive care beds available.
Update from November 24th, 11.12 a.m
.: The topic of school and Corona is currently causing heated debates again.
How high is the risk of corona infection in the classroom?
A query at German children's clinics shows that there is not a high number of unreported cases in the number of infections among children, reports Merkur.de *.
A clear argument for paediatricians.
Update from November 24th, 9.55 a.m.:
On Wednesday, Chancellor
Angela Merkel
and the
Prime Ministers of
the federal states will
discuss the strategy for the winter
at a
Corona summit
.
In their
draft resolution
, the federal states agreed on a Christmas surprise and clear bans for New Year's Eve.
The start of the Christmas holidays has also been postponed in Bavaria.
Corona in Germany: The first intensive care units in North Rhine-Westphalia are full
Update from November 24th, 9.29 a.m.:
In
North Rhine-Westphalia
, due to the increasing number of
corona intensive care
patients,
the first
intensive care units are full
.
That emerges from a report by the
WAZ
.
It states that individual hospitals
no
longer have
any free capacity
.
In some regions a
critical limit has been
reached.
The newspaper refers to the Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI).
However, the
State Ministry
of
Health
of
North Rhine-Westphalia
emphasized that there was still
sufficient capacity
.
637
Covid-19 patients
are currently being
ventilated
in
intensive care units
in the most populous German state
.
That is around 50 percent more than in spring, writes the
WAZ
.
Since the end of October, the number of free ventilation places has fallen from 1124 to 897, the total number of free intensive care beds from 1669 to 1368.
Corona in Germany: 13,554 new infections - 249 deaths
Update from November 24th, 6:35 a.m.:
The health authorities have
reported
slightly fewer new
corona infections to
the
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
compared to the previous week
.
Within one day,
13,554 new cases were
transmitted, as the RKI announced on Tuesday morning.
Last Tuesday, the number was 14,419 new infections.
The previous high was reached last Friday with 23,648 reported cases.
The number of
infections
is regularly comparatively low at the beginning of the week because, according to the RKI, fewer samples are taken on the weekend and therefore fewer tests are carried out overall.
A total of
942,687
people
have been
infected
with the
coronavirus
since the beginning of the pandemic
.
The number of
deaths
rose
249 as of
Tuesday
to a total of 14,361.
The district of
Hildburghausen
in the south of
Thuringia
is still the
Corona hotspot
in Germany.
According to the RKI, the
7-day incidence
on Tuesday morning is
483
cases per 100,000 population.
From Wednesday schools and daycare centers in the entire district are to be closed.
Corona in Germany: Kretschmann wants to extend Christmas holidays
Update from November 23, 7:01 p.m.:
Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann wants the Christmas holidays to start earlier because of the ongoing corona pandemic.
According to a government spokesman, he wants to stand up for longer holidays at the upcoming federal-state summit.
The idea would be that the holidays would start on December 18th.
Then you have five days until Christmas Eve in which you can reduce contacts so as not to spread the virus at a Christmas party with your grandparents.
Corona in Germany: Hildburghausen is becoming an absolute hotspot
Update from November 23, 6:05 p.m.:
The district town of
Hildburghausen
in the south of
Thuringia
is currently becoming the absolute
corona focal point in Germany
.
According to the
RKI
, the 7-day incidence reached a value of 396. In no other district in Germany is this number currently so high.
The district administrator Thomas Müller sees little prospect of improvement:
"We are now marching towards 500,"
said the CDU politician.
In response, all
daycare centers
and
schools
in Hildburghausen are now being
closed
.
According to Müller, however, clear sources of infection can no longer be identified.
Schools, daycare centers, administrations, police and also old people's homes are massively affected.
“It goes across all ages,” said the district administrator.
A new ordinance is now planned for the entire district.
This should also include
stronger contact
restrictions.
In addition, there will be
exit
restrictions.
The home should only be left for valid reasons, for example to go to work or to exercise in the fresh air.
Corona in Germany: Drosten warns of another virus
Update from November 23, 5:35 p.m.: Christian Drosten
will
probably go down in history
through his research into
Corona
*
.
Now the virologist wants to devote himself to the next virus:
MERS
, which can cause fatal respiratory infections.
Update from November 23, 2:57 p.m.:
The question of immunity after a coronavirus infection * is unresolved.
Researchers are now coming to interesting results in the largest study to date.
The results of experts who examined the effect of the corona measures on climate change are also astonishing.
Hopes that the effects of paralyzed industries and reduced air traffic could at least be positive on climate change must be dashed by researchers.
Despite Corona restrictions: Berlin police dissolve Technoparty with more than 130 guests
Update from November 23, 1:15 p.m.:
At the weekend,
a
techno party
in
Berlin
with
more than 130 guests was
broken up by the police.
The officers were called to a club in the
Lichtenberg
district
with loud music playing
early Sunday
, a police spokesman said on Monday.
In the
discotheque
, the emergency services met over 130 people.
“The observance of the distances and the wearing of a mouth and nose cover could not be determined entirely,” wrote the
Berlin police
on Twitter.
Yesterday were college.
Alerted to a techno party with over 130 guests in #Lichtenberg.
One sentence from the # A34 report sums it up well:
"Compliance with the distances and wearing a #MNB could not be determined in their entirety."
Party dissolved. # Anzeigeistraus # COVID19
- Berlin Police Deployment (@PolizeiBerlin_E) November 23, 2020
Against the
present
and the
organizers
were
reports of violations of the sanitary protection regulation
refunded.
After the disco was cleared,
drugs
were also
found.
Another complaint was made in
this regard,
but the drugs could not have been assigned to any of those present.
Corona in Germany: Incorrect test results can result in deaths
Update from November 23, 12:30 p.m.:
Patient advocates are demanding an
examination of the reliability
of
corona rapid
tests
.
So far, one relies solely on the
information provided by
the respective
manufacturer
, said the board of directors of the German Foundation for Patient
Protection
,
Eugen Brysch
, of the
German press agency
.
“That is why the Federal Minister of Health must ensure that state-recognized, independent laboratories evaluate the quality immediately.” It is imperative to prevent tests of inferior quality from being used - after all, a single
incorrect test result can result in
several
deaths
.
"The number of providers of rapid tests has exploded in the last few weeks," said
Brysch
.
The Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices lists
antigen tests
for the detection of
Sars-CoV-2
, which, according to the manufacturer,
meet
the
minimum
criteria.
More than 200 products
were already recorded there by Friday.
Corona in Germany: Patient protectors with "great worries" about the reliability of rapid tests
“It is undisputed that rapid tests provide quick results on infectivity,” says
Brysch
.
"However, the results are not always of the same quality." For buyers such as nursing homes, it is not possible to recognize and test whether the
information provided
by the manufacturers is
actually correct.
Brysch advocates using only
state-approved antigen tests
.
The market has to be organized and the informative value of the information secured.
“Otherwise the testers are lulled into a sham,” he said.
"From the patient's point of view, I am very worried."
At the federal press conference on Monday, a spokeswoman said that
Germany
had already
secured
around 23 million rapid tests
for the
corona
virus.
The availability of these tests is increasing rapidly, she said.
The rapid tests have the advantage that
no laboratory
is required.
Nevertheless,
trained personnel are
needed
to carry out the process.
+
Patient advocates are calling for an examination of the reliability of corona rapid tests.
© picture alliance / Kay Nietfeld / dpa
Update from November 23, 10:35 a.m.:
The
federal states ruled
by the
SPD
Prime Minister are demanding a so-called
“Corona Soli”
from the federal government
.
The
Corona summit will
take place
on November 25th
.
The country chiefs and Chancellor Angela Merkel then advise on the Corona timetable.
Corona in Germany: tens of thousands of crimes in connection with the pandemic
Update from November 23, 10:05 a.m.:
The
corona pandemic
has brought the public prosecutor's
offices considerable extra work
.
Nationwide, the prosecutors have reached
around 20,000 cases
of fraudulent
Corona emergency aid
or other
pandemic-related
crimes
since the beginning of the Corona crisis
, the Federal Managing
Director of
the German Association of Judges,
Sven Rebehn
,
told
the
world
.
According to the Association of Judges, it will take well into next year before the criminal justice system
has processed
all
Corona proceedings
.
Most of the
subsidy
cases still relate to the
Corona aid program
from the
spring
.
It
remains to be seen
whether the so-called
November
aid to cushion the current
partial lockdown will result in a
criminal follow-up, said
Rebehn
.
With around
7,500 proceedings
on suspicion of subsidy fraud and other scams, the investigators in
North Rhine-Westphalia recorded
the highest number of cases.
This is the result of a survey by the
German judges 'newspaper
published by the Judges
' Association
among the justice ministries and public prosecutors of the federal states.
This is followed by
Berlin
and
Bavaria
with more than 4,500 and more than 2,200 cases related to
corona
.
Corona in Germany: intensive care physicians warn of overloading the hospitals
Update from November 23, 8.45 a.m.:
Intensive care physicians are warning of the increasing number of
seriously ill corona patients
of
overburdening the hospitals
.
"The situation in the intensive care units is coming to a head," said the President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi),
Uwe Janssens
, to the
Rheinische Post
.
Politicians have wasted
too much time
since September
.
"There are still no clear instructions to the hospitals that they should postpone planned interventions and medically uncritical operations."
These
instructions
are now
absolutely necessary
so that the
hospitals
remain able to act and, at the same time,
financial compensation
for
loss
of income is made available
unbureaucratically and as quickly
as possible.
"It shouldn't come to the fact that we have to reject emergencies because of overloaded corona stations," said Janssens.
According to Divi data, the number of
intensive care
patients
rose
to
3709
on Sunday
-
79 more than the day before
.
2132 of them received invasive ventilation.
There are currently
around 6,650 beds available
.
A month ago the number of
corona patients
in intensive care units was slightly more than 1,100, two months ago it was around 290.
Corona in Germany: Spahn and Scholz expect the first vaccinations this year
Update from November 23, 7.18 a.m.:
Health Minister
Jens Spahn
and Vice Chancellor
Olaf Scholz
expect the first
corona vaccinations
in Germany this year.
“There is reason to be optimistic that a vaccine will be approved in Europe this year.
And then we can start immediately with the vaccinations, ”said
Spahn to
the
editorial network in Germany
.
+
Health Minister Jens Spahn expects the first corona vaccinations in Germany this year.
© picture alliance / Michael Kappeler / dpa
Corona in Germany: RKI reports 10,864 new cases on Monday
Update from November 23, 6.43 a.m.:
As expected, the health authorities
reported
comparatively few
new corona infections to
the
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
.
10,864 new cases were
transmitted
within one day
, as the RKI announced on Monday morning.
Last Monday, the number of new infections was 10,824 - so the current numbers are at the
level of the previous week
.
On
Friday
, a
high of
23,648 reported cases was
reached.
The numbers are comparatively low on Sundays and Mondays because, according to the RKI, fewer samples are taken on the weekend and therefore fewer tests are carried out overall.
The number of
deaths
related to the
coronavirus
rose
90
within 24 hours
to a total of 14,112.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has counted a total of 929,133 proven corona infections in Germany.
Corona in Germany: explosive paper - experts criticize Merkel & Co. sharply
Update from November 22nd, 7.12 p.m
.: The breakwater lockdown is not yet working as desired - some scientists and experts are calling for an "
inevitable
"
change
in
strategy
in the fight against the corona pandemic.
In a 49-page letter that the
world
has (article behind the payment barrier), the authors sharply criticize the
corona measures taken by the federal and state governments
.
The
November lockdown
missed its target.
Instead of a “wave that can be broken”, the current data suggest a “continuous increase in numbers”.
A slight flattening of the numbers can be observed, but the hope of a return to numbers like in August is completely unfounded.
"We are currently practicing a method that is familiar from road traffic, braking to stutter," said
Holger Pfaff, Professor of Medical Sociology at the University of Cologne
, and co-author of the Thesis Paper on the
World
.
“We brake, release the brakes and then brake again and so on.” Many people do not realize that the virus will not go away so quickly as long as not everyone is vaccinated.
Lockdown light in Germany - scientists criticize corona measures by the federal and state governments
In the thesis paper, the authors also accuse the federal and state governments of
disregarding
the
protection of risk groups
.
The group of authors currently sees the
high-risk groups largely unprotected
.
The population is "driven into a 'cold herd immunity' with full sight".
"Vulnerable population groups" should be protected more and move to the center of the pandemic fight.
It cannot be ruled out that "the population may become largely infected so quickly that even a vaccination can no longer contribute to a change in trend."
In the opinion of the scientists and experts, the limit values currently used are unusable.
"The value '50 cases per 100,000 inhabitants' is empty," says
medicine
professor
Matthias Schrappe
, another co-author of the paper of the
world.
They have to be realistic goals, everything else is just discouraging.
The group of authors also calls for long-term population studies, also to better determine the number of unreported infections.
Corona in Germany: trend in new infections in sight?
Update from November 22nd, 6:27 p.m
.: The
reproduction number
-
R value for
short
- is an indicator in the corona pandemic.
The current
R value is 1.08
(previous day: 1.05), according to the current Covid-19 situation report of the
Robert Koch Institute
(RKI) from Sunday evening (November 22).
The so-called
7-day R
is
1.03
(previous day: 1.07).
This value reflects the infection rate from eight to 16 days ago.
If this value is below 1 for a long time, the infection rate subsides.
Since the number of people infected with corona is currently very high in Germany, this still means a high number of daily corona cases, explains the RKI in its management report.
Experience shows that the number of new infections reported daily is lower on Sunday than, for example, on Tuesday.
The reason: On the weekends, fewer samples are taken and less is tested overall.
In this respect, trends in the incidence of infections can be better read off at a glance over an entire week.
The so-called
7-day incidence
is derived from the number of new infections per week
.
The 7-day incidence indicates the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the past seven days.
The
7-day incidence in Germany is 141
.
For the past week, the 7-day incidence was relatively stable at 140, with a few up and down changes.
Corona in Germany: current number of cases from the RKI (data status: November 22, 12 a.m.)
Corona cases since the beginning of the pandemic | 918.269 |
Deaths related to Sars-CoV-2 | 14,022 |
New corona infections within 24 hours | 15,741 |
active corona cases in Germany | 300,400 |
Update from November 22nd, 6:21 p.m
.: The number of
corona cases
in Germany is still at a high level.
A long-awaited decline can still hardly be seen.
“
I am also a little disappointed
with the number of infections today and in the past few days.
I would have hoped for more, ”said the Hamburg intensive care physician Stefan Kluge.
The doctor gives a gloomy forecast for spring 2021.
Corona in Germany: high numbers of infections before the lockdown decision - first clinics are reacting
First report from November 22, 2020
Berlin - The
Corona *
infection numbers
in
Germany
are still high.
The
Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
reported a supposedly low value with 15,741 new infections within one day on Sunday, but on
Friday
(
November
20) the number was still just under
22,600
infections.
The picture looks similar with the incidence values.
But where are people currently infected?
According to the Robert Koch Institute, the
incidence of infections is
currently mostly diffuse and difficult to assign.
However, accumulations
occurred
in “
households
, in community facilities and
old people's and nursing homes
as well as in professional settings and based on religious events”.
Due to the increased infection in old people's homes, the number of
Corona patients * treated in intensive care has
increased significantly
since mid-October
- from 655 patients (15.10) to 3,630 (21.11).
Virologists and ministers have already warned of a collapse of the hospitals.
However, there are currently no
bottlenecks,
the German Hospital Association has given the all-clear for the time being.
In some regions, however, predictable treatments are already being postponed in order to create free capacities.
Corona in Germany: Partial lockdown since the beginning of November - what's next?
- Extension or tightening?
A
partial lockdown has been in effect
in Germany since November 2nd
.
Restaurants and cafes
are
closed
and
leisure activities are put
on hold.
Even the big
New Year's Eve party
at the Brandenburg Gate is said to be canceled.
But the lockdown, originally planned until the beginning of December, does not yet seem to have the desired effect.
The number of
infections
is still
high
.
On Wednesday,
Angela Merkel
therefore
wants to
consult
with the country leaders about
extending
or
tightening
the measures.
For many politicians, the former seems to be already clear.
"Everything indicates that the current restrictions will have to be continued for a while beyond November 30," said Finance Minister Scholz, for example, of Bild am Sonntag.
Even
virologists and physicians
were in favor of
extension
of.
“The aim was to achieve a significant decrease in new infections.
Almost three weeks after the start of the measures, however, we do not see any significant drop, but a sideways movement, ”said the chief virologist at Heidelberg University, Hans-Georg Kräusslich, of the
Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
.
Even if the general line seems to have been established, the
individual measures
have so far been
discussed
very
controversially
.
The SPD and the Free Voters in Bavaria are warning of an “endless” lockdown.
"At Christmas * and New Year's Eve, people should be able to meet their loved ones," said SPD circles.
The so-called
“one-friend rule”
is also criticized, as
reported by
Merkur.de
*.
Rhineland-Palatinate's Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) even accused her of being
“alien to life”
.
The new regulations will be finalized on Wednesday.
However, some details of the plans have already been made public.
* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital network.
List of rubric lists: © Michael Reichel / dpa