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
*.
This
news ticker
is updated regularly.
Update from February 2, 8:51 p.m.:
The German health authorities reported 6114 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day.
In addition, 861 new deaths were recorded within 24 hours.
A week ago, the RKI had recorded 6412 new infections and 903 new deaths within 24 hours.
According to the RKI, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants reported within seven days, the seven-day incidence, was 90 on Tuesday morning. Since the start of the pandemic, the RKI has counted 2,228,085 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany (as of: 02.02., 00.00 a.m.).
The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 57,981.
The RKI stated the number of people recovered at around 1,954,000.
According to the RKI situation report from Tuesday evening, the nationwide seven-day R-value was 0.85 (previous day 0.88).
Corona virus in Germany: Federal police find hundreds of violations of the corona entry rules
Update from February 2, 5:20 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.
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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regarding the coronavirus pandemic in Germany
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