Corona in Germany: concern in the second lockdown - virus traffic light in Berlin scares everyone

The coronavirus still has Germany firmly under control: the numbers remain high, the lockdown was extended into December.

Merkel and Steinmeier now want to encourage people.

• Coronavirus

  * 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

  until Christmas.

• Hope for the next year is the prospect of a

  vaccine

  *.

  The

  federal government's

  first vaccination plans

  have already leaked.

• Chancellor Merkel

  and

  Federal President Steinmeier

  want to encourage people in Germany.

  Bavaria's Prime Minister Söder sees no turnaround

  (see update from November 29, 10:25 p.m.)

  .

• This

  news ticker

  is updated regularly.

Update from November 29th, 7:18 pm:

The

have been in place since last Wednesday.

On this day, Chancellor

and the Prime Ministers of the federal states agreed.

But the

left to the individual federal states.

allows more time than initially estimated

.

The state government

want to announce the specific rules that should apply there

.

Actually, a

was still

expected.

Until recently, according to reports, the ministries were in an agreement on how the latest federal and state resolutions to contain the

in Baden-Württemberg should be implemented.

Worry in the second lockdown: Berlin Corona traffic light scares everyone

Update from November 29th, 5.43 p.m.:

In

, the second

on Sunday

jumped

to

.

Because

in the capital were occupied with Covid 19 patients, as the health administration's management report revealed.

In the late afternoon the traffic light

.

According to the updated values,

the intensive care beds

are now

occupied by Covid 19 patients.

The Corona traffic light takes into account a total of three important values: the

for the last seven days, the

, which measures how many other people a sick person has infected, and the occupancy of the intensive care beds.

The traffic light system in Berlin has been showing red for a long time with the number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants over the past seven days.

This incidence value was now

.

Berlin now has

cases of

, which means the number has increased by 332 compared to the previous day. There were three more deaths, now 553.

Second corona lockdown in Germany: Merkel and Steinmeier want to calm down

First report from November 29th:

Munich / Berlin - "We have come a long way," affirmed

on Saturday.

In her weekly video message she wanted the people in Germany seem

.

Despite the still high numbers in many places, one can get a little hope.

This is mainly thanks to the successful development of vaccines.

"We can assume that one or more vaccines will not be available on

, but in the

," Merkel continued.

Indeed, the

could be

the crucial step in fighting the pandemic.

The first breakthrough came with the German company

* and its US partner

The two pharmaceutical companies announced in November that they had developed the first promising vaccine candidate from Western countries.

In the meantime, the US company

and the British pharmaceutical company

followed suit.

Corona in Germany: Vaccine approval possibly in December - but many questions still open

The

has already negotiated supply contracts for vaccine doses with five manufacturers.

(CDU) expects a first vaccine to be approved in December.

can be

* has not yet been conclusively clarified.

The president of the German Association of Cities, Burkhard Jung (SPD), estimates that

for the general population will not be possible until next summer.

Corona in Germany: Despite the second lockdown, the curve has not yet dropped

They would also be useful in the past.

Because the

(RKI) has counted a total of

1,042,700 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in 

since the beginning of the pandemic

Within one day,

new cases were transmitted, as the RKI announced on Sunday morning.

Even in the

, which has been in place at the beginning of November, the number of new infections remains high.

The

federal and state governments have therefore unanimously decided to

.

However, the rules at

.

"We have combined 3 essential elements of pandemic control & these 3 elements, # containment #protection # mitigation, interlock. We have to do everything we can to ensure that they continue".

L. Wieler, RKI President

Video: @phoenix_de & @ RKIMuseum # COVID19 pic.twitter.com/jlPIKLS2fK

- Robert Koch Institute (@rki_de) November 24, 2020

For many Germans, the second lockdown is a burden.

But

is also positive.

“The pandemic will not take the future from us,” he wrote in a guest post for

.

Because the

give hope that the virus will not permanently dominate everyday life.

Germany can be full of confidence, said Steinmeier.

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