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Corona: Germany with two new hotspots - spectacular vaccination plans leaked

2020-11-29T07:09:34.830Z


Germany has more than one million Covid 19 infections in the coronavirus pandemic. In a large room, the intensive care beds are scarce. The news ticker.


Germany has more than one million Covid 19 infections in the coronavirus pandemic.

In a large room, the intensive care beds are scarce.

The news ticker.

  • Coronavirus

    * pandemic in Germany

    : The

    Covid-19

    * case numbers

    remain

    at a very high level

    at the end of

    November

    .

    The federal and

    state governments are

    therefore

    extending the

    Corona

    * lockdown

    in December.

  • On November 26,

    Germany

    recorded

    more than one million corona infections

    for the first time

    since the pandemic began.

    Initial plans for the

    vaccinations in

    early 2021 are leaked.

  • This

    news ticker

    is constantly updated.

Update from November 27, 6:53 p.m.:

Several pharmaceutical companies were able to

present promising interim results

in the search for a

corona vaccine

.

In the meantime, plans are already underway for

vaccine distribution

.

It is also about

securing

the precious serum.

According to

Spiegel

, the

Federal Ministry of Health

has

asked

the

Bundeswehr

for support.

Accordingly, State Secretary Thomas Steffen

asked

the Bundeswehr for administrative

assistance

.

The

safe intermediate storage

of vaccination doses in Bundeswehr barracks is to be implemented.

Soldiers are also supposed to help distribute the drugs to the vaccination centers.

The 

Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA)

 already warned after research by

Süddeutscher Zeitung

, NDR and WDR of possible

attacks

on vaccine manufacturers and vaccination centers.

Update from November 27th, 6 p.m.:

Too many private parties, too little respect for the AHA rules?

In

Germany

, the

coronavirus pandemic

is a prejudice that young people are

largely responsible for

the

second corona lockdown *

.

Now there is a first study on this (see link).

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Brandenburg wants its own way for Christmas

Update from November 27, 5.47 p.m.:

In

Brandenburg there

should be a separate way to implement the

Corona rules

over

Christmas

.

According to Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke (SPD), the

relaxed


contact

restrictions should apply there for a shorter time.

According to this

,

up to

ten people

from any number of households

should meet only from December

23 to 27

.

In contrast, the federal and state governments decided this week to allow this relaxation until January 1st at the latest.

Update from November 27th, 5.30 p.m.:

When can fans return to

Bundesliga stadiums

, spectators at

concerts

or other cultural events?

If you

are

vaccinated

against

Corona

, a German doctor * demands - and draws a comparison.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Large corona outbreak in old people's home in Hesse

Update from November 27, 4.10 p.m.:

The small town of

Linden

in the district of Gießen in

Hesse

is suddenly also a

Corona hotspot

.

156 Covid-19 cases within seven days - makes a

7-day incidence value

of

550

.

The small town would be placed between the hotspots

Hildburghausen

and

Passau

.

In the list of the Robert Koch Institute, however, only districts and independent cities are included.

Therefore, Linden does not appear there.

A

retirement home

on the edge of the city center was badly affected, said Mayor

Jörg König of

the

FAZ

.

The

Gießener Anzeiger

reported a total of

70 new corona cases

in the senior citizen center, 55 residents and 15 nursing staff tested positive.

The management of the nursing home asked the population for help on Facebook.

In the

care knowledgeable citizens

who can use their knowledge and spontaneous force would be needed.

King

said he was in touch with the line.

"We have exchanged cell phone numbers and are happy to help where we can."

Corona virus in Germany: Passau imposes strict exit restrictions

The current

number two corona hotspot

in Germany is

Passau

.

According to the RKI, a 7-day incidence value of 440 was reached there on Friday.

In view of the sharp increase in the number of corona infections, the city is now imposing

strict exit

restrictions

.

They should start on Saturday and initially last a week, as Lord Mayor

Jürgen Dupper

(SPD) announced on Friday.

Passau residents

are then only allowed

to

leave

their apartment

for good reason

, for example to go to work, to the doctor or to go shopping.

The

police

will monitor compliance with the restrictions, stressed

Dupper

.

“The valid reasons must be made credible.” In addition,

all types of meetings

are

limited to a maximum of ten participants and a maximum duration of one hour.

There is a strict

mask requirement

.

In addition, the city imposes a

ban

on

alcohol

in public places and prescribes

alternating lessons

for grades 7 to 11 - with the exception of final classes at middle and secondary schools.

Classes 1 to 6 and the

final

classes will continue to have classroom teaching.

Coronavirus in Germany: Intensive care beds are running out in a large room

Update from November 27th, 1:52 p.m.:

The

corona infection

numbers

in Germany are still high.

This also has an impact on the number of people who

need

intensive care

.

Nationwide, the

hospitals in

some districts have already reached their

capacity

limits or no

longer

have any

free intensive care beds

.

If you look at the map of the

DIVI intensive care register

, you can see that, especially in a large area on the border between

Rhineland-Palatinate

and

Hesse,

many intensive care beds are occupied with corona infected people.

The region around

Mainz

,

Darmstadt

,

Offenbach

and the

Taunus

is of great concern.

In

the Mainz-Bingen district

, for example, all twelve available intensive care beds are occupied, seven of them with

Covid 19 patients

who have to be invasively ventilated.

In the

Darmstadt-Dieburg district

, all 24 available intensive care beds are also full, eleven of which are corona cases.

+

The Germany map of the DIVI intensive care register provides information about the proportion of Covid 19 patients in the total number of intensive care beds.

(Screenshot)

© Screenshot DIVI intensive care register

All intensive care beds are also occupied

in the absolute

Corona hotspot of

the Federal Republic, the

Hildburghausen

district

in Thuringia

.

Corona in Germany: Spahn wants to use more rapid tests

Update from November 27, 12:03 p.m.:

Federal

Minister of

Health

Jens Spahn

wants

 to use more

corona rapid

tests

for particularly vulnerable population groups even without symptoms

.

This emerges from a

draft

regulation

that the news portal

ThePioneer

.

"Tests are of crucial importance for the containment of corona chains of infection and thus for the prevention of uncontrolled outbreaks," says the document.

The

aim

is

to test

in particular

people

who do not

have any symptoms

, “but who still

seem

likely to have an

infection

or who are at

high risk of being

infected with the

Sars coronavirus

or other people around them

-CoV-2

would be particularly at risk ".

The draft is currently still being coordinated between the departments of the

federal government

and should come into force on December 1st.

Coronavirus in Germany: Passau with an incidence of over 400

The Bavarian city of

Passau

has reached a

corona incidence value

of almost

440

new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days.

Therefore, after the

Hildburghausen

district

in Thuringia

, the city on the Danube is

currently

Germany's number two corona hotspot

.

New measures are to be

announced on

Friday

Corona virus in Germany: Hildburghausen remains an absolute hotspot

Update from November 27, 9.45 a.m.:

The district of

Hildburghausen

in Thuringia is still the absolute

Corona hotspot in

Germany.

It has by far the highest

7-day incidence value

in the Federal Republic of Germany:

629.8

new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within one week.

The

RKI announced

that this was the first time that a value of more than 600 had been registered.

Strict restrictions

now apply to

the approximately 63,000 residents in the

Hildburghausen

district

.

They are not allowed to leave their homes until December 13th without a valid reason.

In addition,

schools

and

kindergartens were

closed.

The

district

administrator,

Thomas Müller

, has been under

police protection

since Thursday

.

He had previously been

massively insulted and threatened

on

social media

and

filed a complaint, said a

police

spokesman

in

Erfurt

on Thursday evening.

Müller had

criticized

the

protests

against the strict lockdown in Hildburghausen as irresponsible

.

The participants not only endangered themselves, but also others.

Corona currently in Germany: More than 22,000 new infections again - record number of deaths

Update from November 27, 7:02 a.m.:

The total number of

corona infections

so far proven

in Germany

has

exceeded the

one

million

mark.

The health authorities reported

22,806 new infections

to

the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)

within one day (as of November 27, 00:00 a.m.).

As a result, the number of cases known since the beginning of the pandemic rose

to 1,006,394

.

The

RKI

announced this

on Friday morning.

On Friday a week ago, with 23,648 cases transmitted to the RKI, the highest level of daily new infections was reached.

The number of

coronavirus-

related

deaths

rose

426

through Friday

to a total of 15,586.

That is a

record

since the beginning of the pandemic.

On Wednesday, 410 cases were recently recorded, a peak in this area.

The RKI estimates that around 696,100 people have now recovered.

Already on Thursday evening, data from the

Johns Hopkins University had shown

that the million mark had been exceeded when corona infections were detected (see update from

November 26, 8:30 p.m.) The researchers' data are updated regularly and therefore often show a higher level than official figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) or the countries concerned.

In some cases, however, the figures were corrected afterwards.

Coronavirus in Germany: No exceptions in Berlin at Christmas

Update November 26, 21:50:

Berlin

was in the

Corona pandemic in Germany

critics such as

Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU)

long too careless, too lax, too lax.

Now the federal state (estimated 3.67 million inhabitants), which is also the federal capital, suddenly shows completely different sides.

The

governing mayor Michael Müller (SPD)

announced that

Berlin would

not make any exceptions to the

contact restrictions

at Christmas

.

“The Senate has already agreed on a regulation for the Christmas holidays: The contact restrictions remain at max.

5 people, but restrictions on the number of households will be lifted, ”wrote Müller on Twitter.

The other federal states and the federal government had previously decided that

up to ten people from families and friends could meet

at

Christmas

.

Christmas:


The Senate has already agreed on a regulation for the Christmas holidays: The contact restrictions remain at max.

5 people, however restrictions on the number of households are lifted.

- The Governing Mayor of Berlin (@RegBerlin) November 26, 2020

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: More than one million corona infected people in total

Update from November 26th, 8:30 p.m

.:

This Thursday,

Germany

recorded

over a million corona infections

for the

first time

since the outbreak of the pandemic.

This comes from the data from the American

University of Johns Hopkins (JHU)

in Baltimore.

The university's data are regularly updated and therefore often show a higher level than official figures from the World Health Organization (WHO) or the countries concerned.

As of 8:40 p.m., there have

been

a total of 1,004,555 Covid-19 cases

in

Germany

since the beginning of the pandemic,

according to

Johns Hopkins University

.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: the hopes of many rest on the corona vaccine

First report from November 26, 2020:

Munich / Berlin - In the

second wave of the corona pandemic

*,

hopes rest on the expected

vaccine

against the insidious

pathogen SARS-CoV-2

.

Meanwhile, the plans for the smoothest and nationwide

vaccinations against Corona are

evidently being pushed ahead under high pressure.

So this Thursday (November 26th) specific details leaked out.

Corona pandemic in Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia is planning vaccination centers with vaccination routes

It is about the most populous federal state in the Federal Republic of Germany:

North Rhine-Westphalia

, with around 18 million inhabitants.

As the

picture

(behind a payment barrier) reports,

a total of 53 so-called vaccination centers are

to be built throughout

NRW

.

That means: every district and every urban district will get their own

corona vaccination center

.

In the

vaccination centers

themselves, there should be so-called

vaccination streets

.

That emerges from a "sketch for vaccination organization" by

NRW Minister of Health Karl-Josef-Laumann

, which is available in the

picture

.

Up to 20 vaccinations per hour should be possible per “vaccination line”.

The

vaccination centers

should also be

in operation for up to twelve hours a day.

Sports halls, exhibition halls and concert halls as well as youth hostels could be considered as locations.

Corona pandemic in Germany: NRW first wants to vaccinate corona risk groups and medical staff

Striking: According to the report,

corona risk groups

and medical staff

in

NRW

are to be

vaccinated

against the

SARS-CoV-2 pathogen

as early as December

.

(pm)

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

List of rubric lists: © picture alliance / Tobias Schwarz / AFP POOL / dpa

Source: merkur

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