Ironically, on Christmas Eve: The first case of the new corona mutation from Great Britain is detected in Germany.
The authorities react immediately.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: The
corona mutation B.1.1.7.
is proven for the first time in the Federal Republic - report about it on
Christmas Eve
.
The
woman infected
with the
coronavirus mutation *
traveled from
Great Britain
via Frankfurt am Main to
Baden-Württemberg
.
The
coronavirus mutation B.1.1.7.
is said to be up to 70 percent more contagious.
Update from December 24th, 6:20 p.m.: Little by little
, more details about the first proven
corona mutation
of variant
B.1.1.7 in Germany are
known.
The woman infected with the virus mutation traveled from
London Heathrow Airport
to Frankfurt am Main
on December 20
.
A
corona rapid test had
already
turned out positive
at the airport near the Hesse metropolis
.
According to the authorities, she is
in domestic isolation
with relatives in the
Freudenstadt
district
.
After the first positive rapid test, according to a spokesman for the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Health, a PCR test was carried out on Monday (December 21), which was also positive.
The swab sample was sent to the responsible laboratory at the
Berlin Charité
.
From there, evidence of the
coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 was
made
on Thursday
.
Three close contacts would also be in quarantine.
New corona mutation now also in Germany: woman traveled from Great Britain via Frankfurt to Baden-Württemberg
First report from December 24th:
Munich / Stuttgart - Bitter setback for
Germany
in the
coronavirus pandemic *
.
And that of all things on
Christmas Eve
and
Christmas.
As the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Health this Thursday (December 24) announced that the first in was
Germany
known case of the new
Corona
* mutation
detected in the southwest of Germany.
It is a woman who entered
Baden-Württemberg
from
Great Britain
via Frankfurt Airport on
December 20th
.
For the
woman infected
with the new, highly contagious form of the
coronavirus
*
,
domestic isolation
was immediately
ordered.
The mutated variant B.1.1.7 of the #Coronavirus was detected today in a woman who entered BW from Great Britain on December 20, 2020.
The mutation B.1.1.7 had previously been discovered in Great Britain for the first time.
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- Ministry of Social Affairs and Integration BW (@MSI_BW) December 24, 2020
In a tweet of the Ministry of Social Affairs and to said
corona case,
it said late Thursday afternoon:
"The person in question is currently visiting relatives in
Baden-Wuerttemberg
and traveled on Sunday, December 20, 2020, through Frankfurt am Main to
Germany
a .
A rapid test of all passengers for
SARS-CoV-2 was
carried out at the airport upon entry
, which was positive for the person concerned.
The family picked up the person from the airport by car and has been in domestic isolation ever since. "
Corona mutation B.1.1.7 now also in Germany: Great Britain had imposed lockdown on London
On December 19, the
British government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson
imposed
a new
lockdown
for south-east England after
the
mutated variant B.1.1.7 of the corona virus was
found
in the metropolitan area of
London
with its many millions of inhabitants
.
According to British information, the
corona mutation
is said to be
up to 70 percent more contagious than the previously known form of the virus.
Virologist Christian Drosten
from the Berlin Charité had only just before
Christmas
expressed the assumption that the
corona mutation from Great Britain
* was
very likely already in
Germany
.
Now there is apparently the first concrete evidence of this.
(pm)
* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network
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