Corona in Germany: Infections and deaths are on the rise - the expert does not believe that the lockdown will end soon

The number of corona cases in Germany is simply not going down.

The infections are still alarmingly high.

The virus hardly seems to be slowing down.

All developments in the news ticker.

• Coronavirus pandemic in Germany

  : The Federal Republic is in a

  tough lockdown

  until at least January 31

  .

  However, the

  Corona * case

  numbers

  are still at a high level.

• The

  British corona mutation B.1.1.7

  worries experts.

  A virus variant from South Africa has also been discovered in Germany.

• This news ticker is updated regularly.

Update, January 12th, 2.30 p.m.:

NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU)

gave an emotional speech on the

corona pandemic in Germany

in the state parliament in Düsseldorf

.

Among other things, Laschet railed against skeptics who criticize the vaccination plans.

"That is typical

of

North Rhine-Westphalia

," said the head of government from

North Rhine-Westphalia,

gesticulating wildly.

But millions of vaccine doses would come in the coming days, and "it will jerk", but that is normal.

And what about vaccinations in

North Rhine-Westphalia

?

80-year-olds and over 80-year-olds could make an appointment for February from January 25th - by letter, said Laschet.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Harsh criticism of Chancellor Angela Merkel's corona policy

Update from January 12, 2:15 p.m.:

Due to the

coronavirus pandemic,

Germany will

have to prepare for

a hard lockdown that will last for months.

A health expert sharply criticizes

Angela Merkel's

federal government

for its

corona policy

*

in this situation

.

Update from January 12th, 1:32 p.m

.: Bavaria is continuing its tough path in the corona pandemic: Wearing

FFP2 masks

is

mandatory

in

local public transport

and

retail

from Monday (January 18)

.

The Prime Minister Markus Söder announced on Tuesday, as Merkur.de * reported.

"The measures we have taken are slowly starting to take effect," said the Franconian at a media meeting and warned of the

corona mutation

with a "70 times faster spread.

That could jeopardize all efforts of the past weeks ”.

Masks are an important tool in the fight against the corona pandemic.

Are FFP2 Masks Better?

The knowledge platform

sciencealert

.

com

has compared studies.

Corona in Germany - The situation in the intensive care units in many clinics is tense

Update from January 12th, 1:15 p.m

.: According to data from the DIVI intensive care register,

5,210 Covid 19 patients

currently need

intensive

medical

treatment.

2,996 of these are artificially ventilated.

Of the

intensive care beds, 20,608 are occupied

and 3,652 are free.

In view of 25,000 corona patients in German clinics, the German Hospital Society has

warned against

overloading the system

.

"With around

6000 patients in need of intensive treatment

, whose care bundles significantly higher personnel resources, a high degree of stress has been reached in the system as a whole, and in many clinics has already been exceeded in some cases," said Managing Director Georg Braun of the Düsseldorf Rheinische Post on Tuesday.

Update from January 12th, 12 noon: Germany is

debating compulsory vaccination against the

corona virus

and special rules for

vaccinated people

.

A federal state is now serious - and is causing irritation.

Update from January 12th, 11.30 a.m

.: In the

coronavirus pandemic in Germany

*

, despite

strict corona rules

*

, many people continue to pour into the winter sports areas - including serious accidents and worries (see link for an overview)

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: hard corona lockdown shows hardly any effects

Update from January 12, 10:43 a.m

.: The

hard lockdown

has hardly had any effect

in

Germany

so far.

The prognoses from medical professionals are bleak.

A return to normal by January 31st is unlikely.

"

I am very unsure whether we can come to an end to the lockdown at the end of the month,

" said the chairman of the professional association of doctors in the public health service (BVÖGD), Ute Teichert, of the Funke media group (Tuesday).

Corona variants, as they are currently rampant in Great Britain and Ireland, could therefore worsen the situation.

"At the moment the numbers look as if it could be difficult to come to an incidence of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants by the end of January," said the doctor.

Reaching this mark once is also not enough.

"The number of infections must remain so low over the long term," emphasized the doctor.

One thing is certain: in any case, there could be “loosening only gradually”, “not all at once”.

Corona in Germany: New infections and deaths are really attracting us

First report from January 12, 2020

Berlin - What do the current

Corona case numbers

tell us

?

Is the data meaningful?

According to the

Robert Koch Institute

(RKI), fewer cases were transmitted

over Christmas and New Year

.

That is changing now.

"

The number of cases has risen again in the last few days,

" says the current

Covid 19 management report

(as of January 10).

And the RKI also writes: "Whether this

trend will continue

beyond the expected follow-up tests and late registrations will only be seen in the course of the next few days."

Almost

13,000 new infections

were reported

to the RKI

in the past 24 hours.

891 other people

died within one day.

The

7-day incidence is 164.5

.

Corona case numbers in Germany: RKI reports 891 more deaths (data status: January 12, 12 a.m.)

Coronavirus cases in Germany	1,933,826
New corona infections in the past 24 hours	12,802
Deaths related to Sars CoV-2 infection	41,577
Deaths in the past 24 hours	891
active corona cases in Germany	322,300
7-day incidence in Germany	164.5

Corona in Germany: 7-day incidence under 50?

The

7-day incidence

* is currently playing an important role in the coronavirus pandemic.

The value decides on stricter corona rules or relaxation.

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

below 50

.

So far, no federal state has succeeded.

The infection process can be read off pretty well on the RKI Covid dashboard.

Yolk yellow

is a region with

50 infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the past week

.

However, red to dark red predominates on the Corona map.

In

Saxony

and

Thuringia

, the sad

Corona front runners

in Germany

are also on Tuesday

.

Bremen

with 86.3 currently has the lowest value.

However, these weekly values ​​should also be assessed with caution because of the holidays.

In Saxony,

the situation is extremely tense

in

Bautzen

(510.4) and

Meißen

(434.8).

The two districts have been one of the corona hotspots in Germany for weeks.

In Thuringia it is the district of

Hildburghausen

(526.9).

The

city ​​of

Zweibrücken

in Rhineland-Palatinate (49.7),

Roststock

(48.3) and the

district of Plön

(44.3)

are currently just

below the

50 mark

.

• Saxony

  - 341.9

• Thuringia

  - 325.7

• Brandenburg

  - 258.5

Where do people in Germany get infected with Corona?

Despite lockdown - for more than two months - the infection rate is extremely high.

Where or what exactly are the infection drivers?

"In most circles it is mostly a

diffuse occurrence

, with numerous accumulations, especially in old people's and nursing homes, the

professional environment

and in

private households,

" writes the RKI in its current management report.

However, many smaller outbreaks, such as in hospitals, continue to contribute to the high incidence, explains the RKI.

But what exactly that means remains a mystery.

Who actually infected someone and where often remains unclear.

“On the one hand we have fewer contacts, but on the other hand we apparently don't know much about where it might have been,” said Hajo Zeeb from the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology in Bremen to the German Press Agency.

There are few major outbreaks.

"One cannot really speak of sources of infection, rather of individual candles."

Zeeb is therefore still unclear

how

widespread

the probably more contagious

coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 * is

already widespread in Germany.

The proportion of samples examined is far too low to be able to draw any conclusions.

The fact that the decline in the number of new infections is only progressing very slowly could be an indication that the virus has changed in some places.

Corona mutations have names like "B.1.1.7" and "Cluster 5" - and are now known as variants of the corona virus.

An overview of the mutations in the pathogen *.

Relaxation at Christmas too dangerous?

Whether the easing of the contact restrictions over Christmas has kept the numbers at a high level is difficult to answer.

Zeeb told the dpa that there was less testing around the holidays.

Therefore, the current figures should be assessed with caution.

"I think we will never know for sure." However, it is positive that there was at least no rapid increase after the family celebrations.

Which measures really help to contain the coronavirus?

A Swiss study is now providing results that could fuel new discussions *.

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