The coronavirus pandemic is omnipresent in Germany in February.
The Covid-19 numbers remain high, mutations are worrying.
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Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: The number of
Covid 19 cases
is still high at the beginning of February 2021.
A
tough lockdown *
applies
nationwide
until at least February 14th due to
Corona
*.
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news ticker
is updated regularly.
Munich / Berlin / Magdeburg - The focus of the
coronavirus pandemic * is
on: the
intensive care units
and their occupancy.
Between north and south, between
Hamburg
and
Munich
, between east and west, between
Berlin
and
Cologne
.
While the number of
new
corona
infections is
slowly decreasing
in the weeks of
hard lockdown
, the frequency in the
intensive care units
remains unchanged.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: intensive care units in Saxony-Anhalt, Hamburg and Bremen
This applies in particular to three federal states:
Saxony-Anhalt, Hamburg and Bremen.
Because: There, the share of free beds in the total number of
intensive care
beds has
fallen below ten percent - as of February 2.
But even in the south of the Federal Republic of Germany, according to the
intensive care register of
the
German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI)
, individual districts
no longer
report
any free intensive care beds.
For example,
the Waldshut district on the Swiss border
in
Baden-Württemberg
, or
the Roth, Kelheim and Landshut districts
in
Bavaria
.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: More than 2.5 million vaccinations in Germany so far
In this difficult phase of the
corona crisis
,
hopes rest
on the
vaccinations against the
corona virus
.
As of Monday, February 1st, according to the Federal
Ministry
of Health
's vaccination dashboard, 2,586,997 vaccinations
- including 606,786 second vaccinations.
On average,
between 90,000 and 100,000 vaccine syringes
are currently used in
Germany
every day.
According to statements by
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU)
*
and
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU)
*
, an acceleration of the process due to the shortage of vaccines is not in sight for the time being.
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(pm) * Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network