The first metropolis in Germany has fallen below the incidence of 50.
Nevertheless, DIVI President Marx warns against easing it too quickly.
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Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: The number of
Covid-19 cases
shows a clear trend
(see update from February 4, 6.27 a.m.)
.
Health Minister Jens Spahn
wants to
extend the
state of emergency corona
(
see update from February 3, 10:10 p.m.
).
DIVI President Gernot Marx warns against an early relaxation of the corona measures.
(see update from February 4th, 4:50 p.m.)
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news ticker
is updated regularly.
Update from February 4, 4:50 p.m.:
Intensive care physicians have called for an extension of the corona rules currently applicable in Germany.
“I am not advocating an infinite extension of the lockdown.
But it is imperative that we extend the current measures by at least two weeks, ”said Gernot Marx, President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI), the news portal
t-online
.
The situation in the intensive care units remains very serious despite the decline in patient numbers until Easter, according to Marx.
All employees in the intensive care units have been in a permanent state of emergency for almost a year.
He would only speak of “real relaxation” if there were fewer than 1000 corona intensive care patients.
Currently there are around 4,200.
At the same time, Marx warned of a third corona wave due to the spread of possibly particularly contagious virus variants.
"If it starts before we have finished the second wave, that is another extreme burden for the hospitals."
Corona in Germany: Motivation of the population is decreasing
Update from February 4, 1:11 p.m.:
While the corona numbers are falling
across
Germany, the motivation seems to adhere to the rules
to also lose weight
with some citizens.
In Aalen, a party with nine young guests was broken up by the police for violating the Corona rules.
They met to smoke shisha.
Previously, neighbors in the apartment building had complained about loud music.
The teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18 tried unsuccessfully on Monday to hide in the toilet or in closets.
Afterwards, however, they were friendly and cooperative.
The organizer of the party must now expect a fine of 500 euros, his guests 150 euros each.
An illegal meeting was also broken up in Mittelbiberach (Baden-Württemberg).
Almost ten adults celebrated a children's birthday with several children.
The adults who did not belong to the household were asked by the police to leave the festival.
Unlike in Aalen, the guests only went under protests, it said.
Because of the party on Wednesday, four adults must now expect advertisements.
Corona in Germany: First metropolis with an incidence below 50
Update from February 4, 10.17 a.m.:
Munich was the first German metropolis
to fall below
the corona incidence
value
of 50 for the first time since October.
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the seven-day incidence on Thursday is 48.0.
However, there should not be any easing for the approximately 1.5 million inhabitants of Germany's third largest city for the time being.
"Only when we maintain this value for the next 7 days can we even think about any easing," said Mayor Dieter Reiter (SPD).
To this end, he will coordinate closely with the state government.
“It is gratifying that the various measures are clearly working, especially because most people adhere to them.
That is why we have an incidence below 50 today, ”said Reiter.
"I'm happy because it's a step towards more normality."
Corona in Germany: Germans hardly plan any summer vacation
Update from February 4, 6:21 a.m.:
According to a survey
Only every fourth German citizen wants to travel in summer this year.
In a survey for the
Augsburger Allgemeine
on Thursday by the Civey company, only just under 24 percent of citizens said they definitely wanted to go on vacation in the summer.
According to this, 14 percent of those surveyed are planning a trip for autumn and four percent for winter.
Families with children are more willing to travel during Corona: In this group, 38.5 percent of those surveyed said they were planning a summer trip.
In terms of party preferences, the FDP supporters are also most willing to travel in the summer (34.4 percent), while supporters of the Greens and the Left are only 21 percent and 20 percent, respectively.
On February 2nd and 3rd, the institute surveyed 5007 German citizens living in Bavaria.
Corona in Germany: New numbers give hope
Update from February 4th, 6.21 a.m.:
The current
corona numbers
: The health authorities reported
14,211 new corona infections
to
the Robert Koch Institute (RKI)
within one day.
In addition,
786 new deaths were recorded
within 24 hours.
Exactly one week ago, the RKI reported 17,553 new infections.
The
seven-day incidence
,
which is particularly crucial for politics,
was
80.7
on Thursday morning, according to the RKI
.
Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at 197.6.
Most federal states are recording falling incidences, according to the RKI.
The nationwide
seven-day R-value
was
0.83
(previous day 0.85)
according to the RKI management report on Wednesday evening
.
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 83 more people, whereby the value depicts the infection process 8 to 16 days ago.
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Corona in Germany: Health Minister Spahn wants to extend the state of emergency
Update from February 3, 10:10 p.m.: Jens Spahn
plans
to extend
the
Corona state of emergency
.
So far it is valid until March 31st.
As can be seen from a draft to the
Bundestag
- this is available to the
Reuters
news
agency
-
the
Federal
Minister
of
Health
wants
the
corona pandemic to
continue to be classified as an
“epidemic situation of national importance”
.
“The
pandemic
will not be over by the end of March.
So that the numerous financial aids and flexible regulations for care and health can continue to exist, they must be legally extended, "said Spahn, who recently admitted errors in the Corona vaccination campaign,
Reuters
.
The pandemic-related
special regulations
in favor of
those
in need of care, caring relatives and care facilities
are also to be extended by three months
.
To finance this,
Spahn
proposes a
one-off three billion euros from the federal budget as a subsidy for long-term care insurance.
Update from February 3, 5:25 p.m.: SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach
warns
Markus Lanz (ZDF) *
of a third corona wave in Germany and looks concerned at the
mutations of the
corona
virus
(see link).
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Bundeswehr team on Corona aid mission in Portugal
Update from February 3, 4:33 p.m
.: A 26-strong Bundeswehr team made up of doctors and paramedics to support Portugal, which was hard hit by the corona pandemic, landed in Lisbon on Wednesday.
The Bundeswehr team has, among other things, ventilators and infusion devices for seriously ill corona patients.
The original plan was to bring 150 hospital beds to Portugal.
The Portuguese side announced shortly before departure that these were not needed.
The deployment of the Germans in the country with one of the highest infection rates in the world is initially planned for three weeks.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Hundreds of violations of corona entry rules
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, in
Baden-Württemberg
the district of Waldshut on the Swiss border, or in
Bavaria
the districts of Roth, Kelheim and Landshut.
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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