Corona in Germany: spread of mutations through entry? Federal police found hundreds of violations

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

  : There

  is no trend reversal in sight in

  the

  Covid 19 case numbers

  at the beginning of February 2021, but there is a trend.

• Top virologist Christian Drosten

  continues to warn of a quick end to the

  hard lockdown *.

• Spread of the

  mutations

  through immigration?

  Federal police found

  hundreds of violations (

  see update from February 3, 12.30 p.m.

  ).

• This

  news ticker

  is updated regularly.

Update from February 3, 12.30 p.m.:

Unauthorized

entry

: As the

German Press Agency (dpa)

reports, the Federal Police found several hundred violations of the stricter

corona entry

rules

within a few days

.

Specifically, the restrictions relate to flights from areas with particularly high incidences, i.e. infection rates, as well as areas in which a possibly new

variant of the coronavirus is

circulating.

The

mutations

are generally considered to be more contagious than the original form.

Specifically: Between January 24 and February 1,

940 violations

of the applicable

Covid-19 rules were

found

in 240 flights from high-risk areas abroad and regions with common

corona mutants

, the Federal Police announced on Tuesday in Potsdam.

Corona pandemic in Germany: Virologist Christian Drosten warns of easing the situation too early

Update from February 3, 6:36 a.m.:

Although the number of

corona cases is

slowly falling

(see update from February 3, 6:07 a.m.)

,

top virologist Christian Drosten has

again

warned

against

easing

.

"For the period up to Easter we can not expect much civil protection through the vaccination," said the scientist in the podcast

Coronavirus Update

at NDR-Info.

The focus is on protecting the

Covid 19 risk groups

.

Even if the vaccination reduces mortality, reducing the number of cases remains essential for Drosten.

There is "a big cause for concern".

That is why you have to check where and how quickly you relax.

Drosten

spoke of a scenario in which the more than 23 million people in the 40- to 60-year-olds group of more than 23 million people could develop serious illnesses - if it was relaxed too early and these people were not yet adequately protected by vaccinations.

Among other things, this could lead to an overload of the health system and high levels of sick leave in companies.

The prospect of an increase in vaccination doses was “very positively surprised”.

"The situation is much better than I thought days ago."

However, he also referred to the imponderables and challenges of vaccination on a broad basis.

Regarding the effectiveness of the various preparations,

Drosten

stated

that they are all "totally effective" against severe courses.

According to estimates by the Ministry of Health, the delivery quantities should

increase significantly

by the

summer

.

Corona case numbers in Germany: RKI reports 975 deaths in connection with Covid-19

Update from February 3, 6:07 a.m.:

In Germany, 9,705 new corona infections (previous day: 6,114) and 975 further deaths (previous day: 861) have been recorded at the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Germany.

The

7-day incidence

on Wednesday morning is

82.9

according to the RKI

.

The district of Tirschenreuth (Bavaria) is currently particularly affected, with a 7-day incidence of 297.0 (previous day: 322.0), the district of Burglandkreis (266.7) and the district of Hof.

Corona pandemic in Germany	January 3, 2021	January 27, 2021	Maximum values
New corona infections	9,705 new corona infections	13,198 new corona infections	33,777 new corona infections on December 18 (with late registrations) achr
Corona-related deaths	975 deaths	982 deaths	1,244 corona deaths on January 14th
7 day incidence	82.9	n / a	197.6 on December 22nd

Corona in Germany: R-value falls below critical level

According to the current RKI management report from Tuesday evening, the 7-day R value is 0.85 (previous day 0.88).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 85 more people.

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

If it is below 1 for a long time, the infection process subsides.

The situation in the

intensive care units

remains tense: According to data from the DIVI intensive care registry, 4,238 corona patients are currently in an intensive care unit.

Of these, 2,352 corona patients would have to be artificially ventilated.

There are currently 3,566 intensive care beds available in Germany.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: the district in Saxony-Anhalt leaves vaccination appointments

Update from February 2, 5:15 p.m.: Corona vaccinations in Germany

: proof of vaccination?

Events?

Individual districts are leaving and are now doing their own thing (see link).

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: new corona infections are slowly declining

First report from February 2

: Munich / Berlin / Magdeburg - You are in the focus in the

coronavirus pandemic *

: the

intensive care units

and their utilization.

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

state	Share of vacant beds in the total number of intensive care beds
Saxony-Anhalt	9.6 percent
Hamburg	9.3 percent
Bremen	9.3 percent

Source: DIVI and RKI intensive registers, as of February 2nd

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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