Corona in Germany: Now corpse transport in column through East Germany - "We have a traffic jam of hundreds of dead"

In the coronavirus pandemic, Germany exceeded a sad mark in the number of deaths for the first time.

The intensive care beds are running out.

There is a vaccination breakdown in Bavaria.

• Coronavirus pandemic in Germany

  : The number of

  corona cases

  remains

  at a very high level

  around

  Christmas

  and before

  New Year's Eve

  .

• The

  hard lockdown *

  because of the

  corona crisis

  *

  shows in the fight against

  19-Covid *

  so far no effect.

• This

  news ticker

  has ended.

  You can find the continuation from December 29th here

  .

Update from December 29th, 6.11 a.m

.: The current

corona case numbers

in Germany are partially comparable with the values ​​of the previous week.

The

Robert Koch Institute

(RKI) expressly points out that fewer people are tested and less data is transmitted to the RKI during the “Christmas holidays, at the turn of the year and on the surrounding days”.

This should be taken into account when interpreting the number of cases.

In the past 24 hours,

12,892 new corona cases

and

852 further deaths

in connection with Sars-CoV-2 have been recorded, reports the RKI.

There are currently around

355,900 active corona cases

in Germany

.

The

7-day incidence

in Germany on Tuesday morning is

149.2

(previous day: 158)

according to the data from December 29 (0 a.m.)

Corona in Germany: Now corpse transport in column through East Germany - "We have a traffic jam of hundreds of dead"

Update from December 28, 9.48 p.m.:

A column has been driving

coffins from Dresden to Thuringia

without ceasing since Monday morning

.

Crematoria in Saxony are apparently overloaded.

Alternative mortuary camps were set up and a private undertaker was called in to assist.

The

corona situation

is currently particularly dramatic in eastern Germany.

“We have a traffic jam of hundreds of dead,” says Dresden's mayor Eva Jähnigen (Greens) of the

picture

, “because in addition to the excessive

death rate in Dresden

, we receive corpses from neighboring circles.

Due to the failure of a furnace, the city itself can only carry out 40 to 50 burns a day instead of 60. "

Three vans are now in use.

They each loaded four coffins and are supposed to transport

a total of 100 dead in 24 hours

from Dresden to a crematorium at the Altenburg-Nobitz airfield, reports an insider from

Bild

.

Larger convoys or trucks are not used in order to avoid images of huge amounts of coffins, as they once shocked the citizens of Bergamo, Italy.

"We are now using every opportunity

to bring the

dead to crematoria in neighboring

federal states as far as Hessen

to be burned," explains Jähnigen, "everything is done with the greatest piety."

In Germany since the beginning of died

coronavirus pandemic

now totaling

over 30,000 people

after an infection.

The Robert Koch Institute rates the risk in the current management report as very high.

Although the

incidence

value

(currently 158) and

R value

(currently 0.74) fell slightly again, the RKI fears a fallacy due to the low reporting activity over the holidays.

There are again more people in the intensive care units than the day before.

348 deaths

were reported.

33 percent of the treated corona patients died on Monday.

Corona: Germany crosses shocking border - virologist names concrete threshold for vaccination breakthrough

Update from December 28, 6:24 p.m .:

Hard lockdown, curfew.

A big difference can

hardly be felt at the moment

, despite the sometimes tough

measures in the Corona crisis

.

Will the vaccination start ensure that there will soon be a noticeable improvement?

“We really have to vaccinate a large part of the population first to really see an effect,” said

top virologist Melanie Brinkmann

in the

ZDF “heute journal”

.

Members of risk groups urgently need to be the first in line to prevent possible fatal courses.

"I guess when we

have vaccinated

40 to 50 percent

we will really feel a difference," Brinkmann now predicts.

Speed ​​and caution are required.

The sword of Damocles is called

mutation

.

The virus variant that emerged in England, for example, is significantly more contagious than its original form and is currently on the advance across Europe.

Christian Drosten confirms this, but reassures me that there is still no cause for concern.

There are currently many indications that the common vaccine also works against it.

Do you need

a new vaccine

for the

new virus variant

?

There should soon be information about the currently rampant corona mutation.

However, the pathogen could change again and again.

A normal process with flu viruses.

Virologist Melanie Brinkmann also fears that vaccine development will not be able to keep up with mutations.

“That is a danger if you

let the virus run free,

” she explains, “that would not be a good idea, because it gives the virus the chance to spread further, to change.

“And it may indeed be possible that

vaccines

like the one we have now running no longer work as well or perhaps no longer work at all,” she warns, “that can happen and that is why it is important to keep the virus on now well kept in check. "

Corona virus in Germany: Despite lockdown - day trippers overrun winter sports resort

Update from December 28, 4:22 p.m.: Mile-long

queues in front of

Winterberg

.

The North Rhine-Westphalian winter sports resort is almost overrun.

Despite the

lockdown

and closed pistes, countless visitors, especially from the Ruhr area, were drawn to the Sauerland.

But it is not only here that winter sports fans storm toboggan runs and hiking areas.

The main road to the

A46

was completely blocked.

“Don't travel there or turn around!” Is the

urgent

appeal of the

city ​​of Winterberg

on Facebook.

Those responsible can understand the impulse to visit the wintry Sauerland, “but it is now so full that there is hardly any parking space left and the

traffic jam extends far before Winterberg

”, they write.

Corona: Germany crosses shocking border for the first time - RKI points out something special

Update from December 28, 1:18 p.m

.: Does the

corona vaccine work

against the corona mutation that has appeared in Great Britain?

The expert gives the first prognosis for the availability of the results.

Update from December 28, 12.50 p.m

.:

Coronavirus pandemic

pressure chamber

: At the start of the

corona vaccinations in Germany,

there is sharp criticism of Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn.

(see link)

Corona pandemic in Germany: Nationwide 7-day incidence has fallen

Update from December 28, 10.16 a.m

.: The

7-day incidence

has

fallen

to

157.8

, reports

the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) (data status: December 28, 12 a.m.).

On Sunday the value was 161.

In

Saxony

(371.3)

the 7-day incidence is still particularly high.

According to the current RKI dashboard,

Thuringia

(288.2) is in second place.

The

R value

is currently below 1, can be read in the Covid-19 management report from Sunday evening.

But the RKI also points out that this value

"may be underestimated

".

Since the Corona cases would "only be detected, recorded and transmitted with a delay" during the holidays.

According to the RKI report, the 7-day R-value on Sunday was

0.83

(Saturday: 0.89).

The value reflects the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago.

The 7-day R means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 83 more people.

In the intensive care units,

5,604 Covid-19 patients

(previous day: 5,562) have to be treated and

3,011 of them have to be artificially ventilated

(previous day: 2,960).

This can be seen from the data in the

DIVI intensive care register

.

Currently, of 23,890 intensive care beds, 4,065 are still free.

Apart from that, there is an emergency reserve of 10,564 additional intensive care beds that can be set up within 7 days.

Corona: Germany crosses shocking border for the first time

Update from December 28, 6:09 a.m

.: A sad mark has been exceeded in Germany: 30,000 people have died since the beginning of the corona pandemic in connection with a Sars-CoV-2 infection.

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI),

348 deaths have been

recorded in

the past 24 hours

.

In addition,

10,976 new corona infections

were reported. 

Corona in Germany: RKI reports almost 11,000 new infections in Germany

"During the holidays and at the turn of the year, it should be noted when interpreting the number of cases that on the one hand fewer people usually visit a doctor, which means that fewer samples are taken and fewer laboratory tests are carried out," the RKI points out on its website.

The current corona case numbers are therefore only partially comparable with numbers from the previous weeks.

RKI reports the current number of corona cases (data as of December 28, 12 a.m.)

• So far,

  1,651,834 people in Germany have

  been proven to be infected with the coronavirus, the RKI announced (data as of December 28, 12 a.m.).

• 30,126 deaths

  have been recorded since the coronavirus-related pandemic began.

• The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at around 1,255,700.

• There are

  currently 366,008 active corona cases

  in Germany.

Update from December 27, 10:15 p.m

.:

Deutsche Bahn

complains of hundreds of thousands of cases in which the

corona mask requirement

* was

not complied with on German trains.

Now the DB wants to take drastic measures against mask refusers (see link).

Update from December 27th, 9:15 p.m.:

The

hard corona lockdown

applies in

Germany *

until January 10th.

In the

coronavirus pandemic

, a German prime minister is now denying any prospects of rapid

easing

(see link).

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: In Berlin, the intensive care units are getting tight

Update from December 27th, 7.30 p.m

.: In the

coronavirus pandemic

,

the

intensive care units

and their utilization are still the focus

in

Germany

.

A look at the

intensive care register of

the

German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)

shows:

Berlin

is currently getting tight.

Only 11.6 percent of the inpatient

intensive care beds

were still free as of Sunday evening.

In contrast,

Covid 19 patients

accounted for 35.9 percent of the intensive care beds used in the capital

.

In

Hesse

,

too

, the situation is assessed as critical with only 14.4 percent free intensive care beds.

According to the

intensive care register

, the

nationwide emergency reserve of intensive care beds

is 10,580.

In recent weeks, however, doctors have repeatedly pointed out that there is a lack of trained staff.

State in Germany (by population):	Share of free intensive care beds:	Proportion of Covid 19 patients in intensive care units:
North Rhine-Westphalia	15.6 percent	20.1 percent
Bavaria	15.5%	26.4%
Baden-Wuerttemberg	16.2%	25.5%
Lower Saxony	22.5%	12.7%
Hesse	14.4%	25.6%
Rhineland-Palatinate	24.7%	21.9%
Saxony	17.0%	39.9%
Berlin	11.6%	35.9%
Schleswig-Holstein	28.0%	7.3%
Brandenburg	18.0%	34.5%
Saxony-Anhalt	20.7%	18.0%
Thuringia	18.1%	27.6%
Hamburg	18.7%	21.1%
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	24.7%	9.2%
Saarland	14.7%	21.3%
Bremen	16.8%	18.4%

Source: Intensregister.de (as of December 27, 7:50 p.m.)

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Berlin: A corona patient is in the intensive care unit of the Bethel hospital in an artificial coma and is ventilated.

(Archive photo)

© Kay Nietfeld / dpa

Corona pandemic in Germany: vaccination centers against the corona virus open nationwide

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

Gradually,

from December 27th, the

vaccination centers

in

Germany

, where the vaccines are vaccinated against the insidious

corona

virus, will

open

.

An example: the arena hall in

Berlin-Treptow

.

Since this Sunday afternoon, doctors, nurses and nurses have been

vaccinated

against the

SARS-CoV-2 pathogen

.

There are 80 vaccination booths there, making the hall

the largest of six

vaccination centers

in the federal capital,

according to

n-tv.de

.

Corona pandemic in Germany: More than 1.65 million people have been infected with the corona virus so far

Update from December 27, 3:04 p.m.:

Since the beginning of the

corona pandemic

, more than

80 million infections

have occurred

worldwide 

.

In over

1.7 million

 cases, the infection with the

Covid-19 pathogen ended

fatally, according to a balance sheet by the

AFP

news

agency

on Sunday based on

information

from the authorities.

Europe is still particularly hard hit.

In

Germany

, according to a census by

Johns Hopkins University,

1,652,066 people have fallen ill since the pandemic began, of which almost 30,000 have died so far.

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Corona in Germany: vaccination campaign is running - but every second hospital corridor shows traces of the virus

Update from December 27th, 11:01 a.m.:

In the

Covid 19 pandemic

, the

staff in clinics must

fear becoming infected at work.

A French meta-analysis by scientists at the Nantes University Hospital is now examining where the air in hospitals is most heavily contaminated with viruses.

It was expected that

coronaviruses would be found in the samples

in

intensive care units

.

However, normal

corridors and toilets

are also repeatedly contaminated.

In the intensive care units,

over 25 percent of

the samples were contaminated, compared to almost 11 percent in other wards.

The highest percentage of positive samples came from

publicly accessible corridors

(56 percent) - but only 16 samples were taken there.

In general, every

third test

(33.3 percent) from public clinical areas was positive.

Toilets and bathrooms with a positive rate of almost 24 percent - 5 out of 21 samples - turned out to be additional risk locations.

The authors suspect

that this is probably because these rooms are

small and poorly ventilated

.

However, the particles of the Sars-CoV-2 pathogen are usually not viable.

Protection against illness - Corona vaccinations started in Germany

The results of the study show that it is important for

nurses and hospital staff

to be among the first to be vaccinated against the virus.

The nationwide vaccination campaign started on Sunday in Germany.

Initially, mobile teams were used primarily in retirement homes.

In

Berlin

,

North Rhine-Westphalia

and Magdeburg, the first people were treated with the vaccine that morning.

Start of the vaccination marathon: The 95-year-old Erika Löwer was the first in North Rhine-Westphalia to receive the vaccination in Siegener Marienheim this morning.

The vaccine had arrived there early in the morning.

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Corona numbers in Germany: News on new infections and fatalities

Update from December 27, 7:29 a.m

.: More than

13,700 new corona infections

within 24 hours and

356 new deaths

with

Covid-19

: The RKI reported 13,755 more daily cases of infection on this Sunday morning.

The previous highs have been more than

30,000 cases

.

The so-called

seven-day incidence

on Sunday was

161.3

.

The day before it was

170.7

.

The seven-day incidence is an essential measure for the imposition and relaxation of corona measures such as the current

lockdown

.

The aim of the federal government is to reduce the incidence to

below 50

.

However: Since not all

health authorities

transmit data

on the weekend

, the number of cases reported by the RKI is usually

lower

on Sundays and Mondays

than on other days of the week.

A good 22,700 new infections were reported last Sunday.

Corona in Germany: the beginning has been made!

Woman receives first vaccination - RKI does not trust current figures

Update from December 26, 10:36 p.m.:

The

R value in Germany

is currently below 1, reports the RKI in the daily status report on the

corona pandemic

.

But how does that fit together with the increasing number of cases?

After all, a value below 1 describes that the virus does not spread any further.

Two kinds of explanations are needed for this.

On the one hand, the

number of people infected with corona in Germany is

currently immensely high.

This automatically means a high number of

new infections

.

Even if not every infected person infects another person.

On the other hand, the RKI also notes that the figures are

not necessarily reliable

during the

holidays

.

"Covid cases are only detected, recorded and transmitted with a delay, so that the R-value may also be underestimated," the experts explain.

Nationwide, there were

14,455 new cases

compared to the previous day

.

The overall German

7-day incidence

is therefore

171 infections per 100,000 inhabitants

.

The situation is currently particularly acute in eastern Germany, especially

south of Dresden

.

The incidence in the entire area is over 500, in the Altenburger Land district even at 617.5.

Corona in Germany: the beginning has been made!

Woman receives first vaccination

Update from December 26th, 5:05 pm:

The

vaccination start in Germany

is done.

Numerous experts and politicians criticize the stuttering plan extremely, but now the first shot has been given.

+

The home resident Edith Kwoizalla, at 101 years of age, is the first to be vaccinated against Corona on the Saturday before the official vaccination start in Germany.

In the Harz district in a senior care facility in Halberstadt (Krüger senior center), the first residents and nursing staff were vaccinated with the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer-Biontech.

© Matthias Bein / dpa / dpa-Zentralbild

The premiere vaccination took place in the Harz Mountains.

The 101-year-old Edith Kwoizalla received the symbolic syringe.

According to those responsible, 39 other residents of the nursing home and 10 employees had themselves vaccinated after Kwoizalla.

"Every day we wait is one day too many," says carer Tobias Krüger.

The district had asked in advance whether the facility was

prepared for the

start of vaccination

.

Coronavirus in Germany: Saarland wants to vaccinate 500 people a day - all appointments are given

Update from December 26th, 3:54 p.m.:

500 vaccinations

are to take place daily in Saarland.

To this end,

three vaccination centers will start

their work on Monday, as CSU Minister Monika Bachmann officially announced.

Mobile teams are already in action on Sunday.

"So we will have

27,000 vaccination appointments

by the end of January

," the Health Minister estimates.

400 vaccinations are carried out daily in the vaccination centers.

Another 100 from the mobile doctors.

The state had allocated

12,000 vaccination appointments

in advance.

They are already fully booked, as the ministry announced.

Therefore, no more appointments can be booked at the moment.

If there are cancellations, the dates will be reactivated in the system.

Coronavirus: Hotspots in Eastern Germany - "The infection situation is worrying"

Update from December 26th, 2:50 p.m.:

The

Middle East of

the Federal Republic remains

Germany's

corona hotspot

.

If you look at the dashboard of the RKI, five districts colored in pink catch the eye.

There the

7-day incidence is

above the value of 500 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week.

The five most affected counties and their

7-day incidence

at a glance:

• Altenburger Land

  : 617.5

• Central Saxony

  : 543.2

• Erzgebirgskreis

  : 520.7

• Saxon Switzerland - Eastern Ore

  Mountains: 520.4

• Bautzen

  : 518.8

In the federal states,

Saxony had

the highest incidence

on Saturday

with a value of

404

, followed by

Thuringia

with a value of

303

.

Corona in Germany: Association of Cities warns against too high expectations for the start of vaccinations

Update from December 26th, 1:32 p.m.:

One day before the start of the 

corona vaccinations

 in 

Germany

 , the

vaccine

arrives

 in the individual federal states

this Saturday 

.

The federal government has tens of thousands of

Biontech

cans 

delivered

 to a total of

 27 locations

 .

From there they will be distributed to vaccination centers and mobile teams, which will then administer the first vaccinations on Sunday.

First, 

people over 80

 as well as nurses and hospital staff at particular risk are to be immunized.

Federal

Minister of

Health

Jens Spahn commented

on the

vaccination schedule

on

Boxing

Day

.

The

German Association of Cities

 has warned against too high expectations for the start of the

corona vaccinations

on Sunday.

“We are very relieved in the cities that the vaccinations can now begin.

A start has been made, but the ghost with the dangerous

coronavirus

is not over yet, ”said City Council President

Burkhard Jung to

the newspapers of the

Funke media group

.

"The infection situation is currently still worrying." The time for

mass vaccinations

has not yet come.

“There is initially far too little vaccine for this,” says Jung.

Corona in Germany: RKI reports more than 14,000 new infections - 240 deaths

Update from December 26, 8:40 a.m.:

The

Robert Koch Institute (RKI)

reported

14,455 new corona infections

within 24 hours in Germany

on Christmas

Day

.

In addition,

240 other deaths were

recorded.

However, these figures are only partially comparable with the values ​​of the previous week.

The RKI expected a lower number of tests and fewer reports from the health authorities during the holidays.

Last Saturday, 31,300 new infections were

transmitted

within one day in

Germany

.

The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants reported to the health authorities within seven days, the

7-day incidence

, was

170.7

on Saturday

.

A high of 197.6 was reached on Tuesday.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: high Covid-19 case numbers in Baden-Württemberg and Hesse

Update from December 25th, 10:20 pm:

The

coronavirus mutation from Great Britain

has reached the Federal Republic, the number of Covid 19 cases is high.

The

Netherlands are

now reacting

- and declaring

Germany

a

corona risk area *

.

Update from December 25th, 9:30 p.m.:

Sweden's corona strategy *

is considered a tricky special path in the pandemic - also for critics and supporters from

Germany

.

The Swedish king accuses his own country of failure.

A problem can be clearly identified.

(see link)

Update from December 25, 7.45 p.m

.: At

Christmas

in the wake of the

corona pandemic,

the health authorities transmit less data - and yet the

Covid-19 numbers

remain

high even during the contemplative time.

The

Robert Koch Institute (RKI)

for

Hesse reported

2992 new infections within 24 hours on Christmas Eve - which was almost a high.

In Hesse there were also 65 further deaths related to

Covid-19

.

As of Friday, 2 p.m., the

State Health Office of

Baden-Württemberg

recorded a further 1947

corona cases in southwest Germany

within one day

.

In addition, 27 other deaths related to the virus were registered.

So far, a total of 4,399 people in

Baden-Württemberg have died

with or from a corona infection.

Corona pandemic in Germany: More than 25,500 new infections reported on Christmas Day

Update from December 25th, 6.30 p.m

.: On

Christmas Day

, the

Robert Koch Institute (RKI) from Berlin published

new figures on the

coronavirus pandemic in Germany

,

citing the regional health authorities

.

These look like this:

• New

  corona infections in Germany

  within 24 hours: 25,533

• Covid-19-

  related

  deaths

  within 24 hours: 412

• Seven-day incidence

  for all of

  Germany

  : 188.8

• Captured

  Corona infections in Germany

  since the beginning of the pandemic: 1612648

• Corona deaths in Germany

  since the beginning of the pandemic: 29,182

The federal government continues to aim to reduce the incidence to below 50.

Germany has been a long way from this goal for weeks.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Bavaria and the east are worried about intensive care units

First report from December 25th:

Munich / Berlin - In the

coronavirus pandemic

*

, the new and highly contagious

corona mutation B.1.1.7

also

reached

Germany

shortly before

Christmas

.

For the time being, until January 10, there will be a

hard lockdown

that will largely shut down social and public life in the Federal Republic.

Before

New Year's Eve

, the

corona situation *

remains

serious - this is shown above all by a look at the capacities of the

German intensive care units

.

According to the

intensive care registers of

the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI),

in many districts there are

hardly any or no

intensive care beds available

.

The situation is particularly worrying in

Bavaria

, in rural regions of

Baden-Württemberg

and in the Middle

East of Germany

.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: counties without free intensive care beds in the Federal Republic

District / City:	Intensive care beds occupied:	Intensive care beds free:	of which corona patients:
Rottweil (BaWü)	11/11	0	7th
Offenbach (Hesse)	20/20	0	14th
Fürstenfeldbruck (Bavaria)	12/12	0	6
Aichbach-Friedberg (Bavaria)	19/19	0	7th
Landshut (Bavaria)	6/6	0	3
Eichsfeld (Thuringia)	17/17	0	9
Saale-Orla district (Thuringia)	4/4	0	3
Oberspreewald-Lausitz (Brandenburg)	16/16	0	12th
Prignitz (Brandenburg)	13/14	1	7th
Hildburghausen (Thuringia)	4/5	1	3
Kitzingen (Bavaria)	8/9	1	3
Rain (bavaria)	15/16	1	10
District of Munich (Bavaria)	9/10	1	1
Landsberg am Lech (Bavaria)	10/11	1	7th
Biberach (BaWü)	13/14	1	9

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