The number of new corona infections is falling slightly - but the number of deaths remains high.
There are great differences in the infection process.
All information in our news ticker.
Germany is trying to get the
Corona
* infection under control.
Are the corona case numbers incorrect?
According to the
Robert Koch Institute
(RKI) there are always reporting difficulties.
This news ticker on the subject of
Corona in Germany
is updated regularly.
Update from January 19, 10 p.m.:
The planning of
coronavirus vaccinations in Germany
*
is criticized in many places.
Now a mayor from
Hessen
makes
no secret of his displeasure.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Christian Drosten comments on the corona mutation
Update from January 19, 8:14 p.m
.: As far as the
corona mutation
*
first discovered in Great Britain
is concerned,
Christian Drosten
still has hope.
The virologist assumes that the
prevalence
has so far been
low
in this country - and he now sees a
time window
to nip it in the bud.
“You can't do that well later, then it's too late,” he said in the latest podcast episode “Coronavirus Update” (
NDR info
).
However: Based on the data now available, Drosten assumes that the variant is actually more contagious than previous forms.
"We have the results on the table." However, the quantitative extent still has to be discussed, he continued.
He estimates that the
transferability is
below the initially reported values of
50 to 70 percent
.
The
B.1.1.7
called variant was, according to Robert Koch Institute (RKI) to date * in 20 cases in
six states
detected
(as of January 17, 00:00 pm)
.
Corona: world physician chief with alarming forecast for Germany - lockdown will "certainly" go much longer
Update from January 19, 3:28 p.m
.:
FFP2 masks
, curfews and more home offices are up for debate at the Corona summit on Tuesday.
In addition, the corona lockdown * is being extended - apparently this is planned until February 14th.
The first drafts have already been leaked.
While the federal and state governments are still negotiating the stricter measures, there is already criticism.
"If you want to prevent the new mutant B.1.1.7 from the UK from spreading here in Germany, you need an R value that is less than 0.7," said SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach in the ntv.
Although the measures are going in the right direction, they are "possibly too small".
“The lockdown will definitely go through to the end of February”, prohezeit world medical president
Frank Ulrich Montgomery
in an ntv interview.
He sees a problem in the extensions.
“The cooperation of the population becomes more difficult the more often you promise them, it will soon be over, only to then extend it again.” Montgomery would be personally “for a clear edge”.
However, he admits that these decisions should be left to politicians and that the 14-day cycle would be based on the Infection Protection Act.
So far we've been relatively lucky with the mutations
World Medical President Frank Ulrich Montgomery
"So far we've been relatively lucky with the mutations," says Montgomery.
Don't get him wrong now.
So far, however, the mutations have not been more deadly or cause the disease to progress more severely, but rather there is a higher susceptibility to infection.
There would also be other mutations.
"A mutation can only occur when a disease occurs in the body and the virus reproduces," explains the world medical president.
That is why he thinks vaccination is particularly important.
+
World Medical President Frank Ulrich Montgomery advocates a “clear edge on the subject of lockdown” (archive photo).
© Hauke-Christian Dittrich / dpa
"First good sign" - Corona test positive rate drops
Update from January 19, 2:05 p.m
.: Around one
million corona tests are
carried out in laboratories in Germany
every week
.
According to data from laboratories, the
proportion of
positive corona tests
in Germany has decreased in the past week.
The so-called positive
rate has
fallen
by a good fifth to
10.8 percent
, said the Association of Accredited Laboratories in Medicine (ALM).
At times the rate was more than 16 percent.
The higher the positive rate with a high number of cases, the higher the estimated number of unreported cases.
"This is a first good sign of a possible decline in the number of infections," explained the laboratory physicians.
However, the picture is incomplete.
For example, the results of so-called antigen rapid tests must "urgently" be included in the test statistics, it said.
Corona in Germany - RKI points out further data gaps - Are the number of cases actually higher?
First report from January 19, 2021
Berlin - With the current number of
Corona cases in Germany,
there are always
problems
.
Some federal states only
transmit
incomplete
data
or
not
at all
.
Especially after the weekend there are late registrations in the following days.
The
Robert Koch Institute *
(RKI) expressly points out in its current management report from Monday evening (January 18): “
No data was transmitted
from
Rhineland-Palatinate
yesterday.
Data were transmitted
from
Bavaria
and
Saarland
, but the data was not received in full at the RKI.
The day
before yesterday too little was transmitted
from
Baden-Württemberg
, these cases were forwarded yesterday and are shown in the statistics today. "
Corona in Germany - RKI reports more than 11,000 new corona infections
In the past 24 hours,
11,369 new corona infections were
recorded, the RKI announced on Tuesday morning (January 19).
In addition,
989 further deaths
were reported in Germany.
That's 100 less than a week ago.
But also here it should be noted that this may include late registrations from the previous day.
Weekly comparison of the number of corona cases in Germany
Important values in the corona pandemic |
Tuesday January 19, 2021 |
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 |
Peak |
|---|---|---|---|
New corona infections |
11,369 |
12,802 |
33,777 on December 18 with 3,500 late registrations (Friday) |
Deaths |
989 |
891 |
1,244 on January 14th (Thursday) |
active corona cases in Germany |
288,400 |
322,300 |
377,266 on December 24th |
7 day incidence |
131.5 |
164.5 |
197.6 on December 22nd |
Even if there are always late registrations and delays, the data give a picture of the
corona situation in Germany
.
The RKI writes in its current management report: "After a sharp increase in the number of cases at the beginning of December, a decrease during the holidays and a renewed increase in the first week of January, the number of cases seems to be stabilizing overall, and
a decrease can be observed locally
in
some regions
."
According
to the RKI,
a “
slight decline or stabilization at the current level
” can be observed in the number of cases in most federal states.
And further: "
Whether this trend will continue will only be seen in the course of the next few days
."
Corona in Germany - 7-day incidence - These are the hotspots in Germany
In Germany, the 7-day incidence * is currently
131.5
.
However, the infection rate in individual federal states differs significantly from this.
Thuringia
with 256.3 and
Saxony
(225.7) have the highest incidence, as can be seen from the data on the RKI Covid 19 dashboard.
But also in
Brandenburg
the value is currently 225.4.
Bremen has the lowest value with 83.2.
The goal of the federal government is to keep the
7-day incidence below 50
.
So far, no federal state has succeeded.
Thuringia - 256.3
Saxony - 225.7
Brandenburg - 225.4
Corona hotspots are currently in
Thuringia
.
The front runner of the 412 districts, cities and regions that the RKI shows on the dashboard is currently the district of
Saalfed-Rudolstadt
with
439.9,
Altenburger Land
(430.7) and
Hildburghausen
(416.2).
Fourteen regions are currently
below the
50 mark
.
Corona in Germany: 7-day incidence below the 50 value
LK Leer 49.8
LK Rothenburg 46.4
LK Trier-Saarburg 46.2
LK Plön - 45.8
LK Osterholz - 45.6
SK Rostock - 45.4
LK Ditmarschen - 45.0
LK Aurich - 43.2
LK Vreden - 40.1
Schleswig-Flensburg county - 39.8
LK Lündeburg - 39.8
SK Zweibrücken - 38.0
District Rendsburg-Eckernförde - 35.8
SK Emden - 32.1
At the Corona summit on Tuesday (January 19), Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Prime Minister will decide to extend the lockdown.
The first details have already been leaked.
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