The number of new corona infections from the RKI on Friday morning continues to show a positive trend.
The chief intensive care doctor now issued an urgent warning.
The Corona * mutations continue to spread in Germany.
(see update from February 10, 4.30 p.m.)
The top intensive care physician now warned against loosening.
(see update from February 11, 10:21 p.m.)
The RKI's Corona * figures from Friday again show a positive trend.
(see update from February 12, 6.25 a.m.)
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Update from February 12th, 10:10 am:
While the infection rate in Germany has now leveled off at a constant level, the spread of a virus mutation on the border with Germany seems to be increasing rapidly.
In the morning, RKI boss Lothar Wieler and Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn will be providing information about the current situation in Germany.
After the corona measures were extended again by the corona summit, a large majority of German citizens believe that the extension of the measures is right, according to a survey.
72 percent of those surveyed support the decision of the federal government and the states to extend the restrictions as far as possible until March 7, as the survey by the opinion research institute Forsa on behalf of RTL and ntv showed.
A quarter, however, do not agree with the extension.
The extension of the lockdown is largely rejected by supporters of the FDP (66 percent) and the AfD (84 percent).
Corona in Germany: RKI reports constant numbers again
Update from February 12, 6.25 a.m.:
The German health authorities reported 9,860 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day.
In addition, 556 new deaths were recorded within 24 hours, according to figures from the RKI on Friday.
The data reflect the status of the RKI dashboard from 6.25 a.m., subsequent changes or additions to the RKI are possible.
On Friday last week, the RKI recorded 12,908 new infections and 855 new deaths within 24 hours.
The corona figures in Germany therefore continue to show a positive trend.
According to the RKI, the 7-day incidence nationwide on Friday morning was 62.2, the nationwide seven-day R value according to the RKI situation report on Thursday evening was 0.85.
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 rate flattens out.
Corona in Germany: “Situation very serious until Easter” - DIVI President Marx warns
Update from February 11, 10:21 p.m.:
The corona lockdown has been extended.
Nevertheless, the numbers keep falling and Germany is hoping for easing.
In this situation, Germany's top intensive care doctor has now spoken up.
Gernot Marx, President of DIVI (German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine) now warned
Focus Online
: “The numbers are falling, that's a good thing.
But we can only talk of relaxation when it (intensive care patients, d. Ed.) Falls below 1000 - we are still many weeks away from that ”.
The situation in the hospitals is still very tense.
But this is not only due to the Covid patients, Marx continues.
The winter months would also bring more colds and accidents to the clinics.
“The doctors and nurses in the intensive care units are really exhausted,” summarizes Marx in the interview.
The mutations therefore represent a new threat situation. A third wave is currently expected - without the second wave even being over, according to the intensive care doctor.
Therefore, he advises
Focus Online
against
hasty easing.
Even without mutations, the "situation until Easter remains very serious," said Marx.
Update from February 11, 8:39 p.m
.: After a corona outbreak in a slaughterhouse in Husum (Schleswig-Holstein), the North Friesland district has now announced that 59 of the 332 employees have already tested positive.
In addition to the regular workforce with around 207 employees, an external company with a total of 105 employees and 20 employees of the district veterinary office are also affected.
30 percent of the test results are still pending.
On Tuesday, after the corona outbreak became known in the company, the health department ordered all employees to be quarantined.
The district is now checking whether the closure of the company should be ordered by February 14, it said.
Corona in Germany: Could everyone be vaccinated much earlier?
New calculation gives hope
Update from February 11, 7:32 p.m.:
The corona vaccinations continue to be slow in Germany.
Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke again about the fact that everyone should get a vaccination offer by the end of summer (September 21).
But people in Berlin are evidently quite confident that this could be the case much earlier.
The Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance had published a paper on Wednesday and calculated on the basis of probable vaccination delivery models by when every German over 18 years of age could be vaccinated.
ZDF
reported that first
.
Variant one says: If Biontech, Moderna and AstraZeneca - the manufacturers who have been approved so far - can meet their delivery obligations, every German over the age of 18 could be vaccinated by mid-September.
That is the cautious option that Merkel had also communicated.
It would go even faster with variant two - namely if other vaccines were added - such as Curevac or Johnson & Johnson.
According to the evaluation by the Central Institute for Statutory Health Insurance, all people over the age of 18 could be vaccinated by mid-August.
Provided they want to be vaccinated and the manufacturers deliver.
Corona travel advice: Germany tightened advice for China
Update from February 11, 3 p.m.:
According to many experts, the coronavirus has its origin in China.
At the beginning of the pandemic, the pathogen spread rapidly, especially in Wuhan.
However, due to strict government measures, normality returned to China after a while.
But for fear of a renewed wave of pandemics, the country is now picking up again if the situation gets worse.
With the reference to possible drastic measures by China in the fight against the corona virus, the federal government has now tightened its travel advice for the People's Republic.
"People with cured Covid-19 disease will, despite negative PCR and IgM antibody tests and a green QR code, be transferred to immediate hospital quarantine for several weeks and subjected to extensive examinations", read on the website of the Federal Foreign Office on Thursday.
This could also affect people "who still have antibodies due to an undetected disease of Covid-19".
The same could apply to travelers arriving on the same flight as a person who tested positive for Covid-19.
"Medical measures on the Chinese side are invasive and often include computed tomography recordings in addition to sometimes daily blood samples." It goes on to say that unnecessary trips to China are "discouraged".
Corona: Federal government tightened travel advice for China
The tightening followed on officially unconfirmed information circulating in Beijing about the admission of immigrants with a positive antibody test, which actually indicates a disease that has been overcome and a possible immunity.
In diplomatic circles, one case was heard in which even a traveler with antibodies was said to have had problems with a vaccination.
The "Süddeutsche Zeitung" even reported on a German citizen who entered China in January and stated that he had previously overcome a Covid 19 disease.
He has been held in a hospital since mid-January for a positive IgG antibody test.
The newspaper reported on further cases of a German citizen and a person from another state.
Corona in Germany: Every fifth person infected with corona in Düsseldorf is infected by mutation
Update from February 11, 10:50 a.m.:
Almost every fifth person infected with corona in Düsseldorf carries the so-called British virus variant.
This was shown by additional tests that had been carried out on all positive PCR samples from the test center and the mobile test services of the North Rhine-Westphalian state capital since February 1, as the city announced on Wednesday evening.
So far, the British virus variant has been detected in 34 cases in Düsseldorf, which is 19.5 percent of the positive samples examined.
The city therefore decided to order a quarantine as a precautionary measure for every closer contact without appropriate protective measures to a person infected with a coronavirus mutation.
Düsseldorf's Lord Mayor Stephan Keller (CDU) warned that "compliance with hygiene rules and wearing FFP2 masks, even where they are not mandatory, are effective means of preventing the virus from spreading".
Corona in Germany: Chancellor Merkel warns of further mutation spread
Update from February 11, 9:50 a.m.:
The number of infections in Germany has been at a constant level for days, but the danger of a third wave has not yet been averted.
Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) still believes that extreme caution is necessary in view of the spread of mutants of the coronavirus.
“We haven't explored everything yet, but we would do well not to doubt the assumptions made by many experts from home and abroad when they explain to us that all three mutations are much more aggressive, i.e. more contagious, and are more easily transmitted than that Original virus ”, warned Merkel on Thursday in a government statement in the Bundestag.
You have to be prepared for this in order to prevent a new, exponential growth of the infections.
"This has already happened in some European countries, which then experienced a temporary dramatic increase in cases of infection, with all the catastrophic effects on health systems."
Corona in Germany: RKI reports current numbers - and 666 new deaths
Update from February 11, 6.28 a.m.:
The German health authorities reported 10,237 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day.
In addition, 666 new deaths were recorded within 24 hours.
That comes from the numbers of the RKI from Thursday morning.
The data reflect the status of the RKI dashboard from 6:28 a.m., subsequent changes or additions to the RKI are possible.
On Thursday last week, the RKI had recorded 14,211 new infections and 786 new deaths within 24 hours.
A positive trend can therefore be seen in the corona numbers in Germany.
The nationwide 7-day incidence was 64.2 on Thursday morning, according to the RKI.
According to the RKI management report on Wednesday evening, the 7-day R-value was 0.82 (previous day 0.82).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 82 more people.
The value represents the occurrence of the infection eight to 16 days ago.
If it is below the value 1 for a long time, the infection rate flattens out.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Some restaurants are still waiting for November aid
Update from February 10, 8:45 p.m
.: The federal and state conference extended the
coronavirus lockdown
in Germany to March 7
this Wednesday evening
:
schools, hairdressers, restaurants - these corona rules now apply in Germany
.
Update from February 10, 6:40 p.m.:
A
corona mutation is
spreading rapidly in the
Czech Republic
on the German border near
Saxony *
- and the eastern neighbor simply cannot get the numbers under control (see link).
Update from February 10th, 6.15 p.m
.: Ingrid Hartges,
General
Manager of the
German Hotel and Restaurant Association (DEHOGA Bundesverband)
, has finally
demanded
from politicians that the announced
November
aid be paid out in full
to their industry.
40 percent of the companies
still had no
November
aid in
the wake of the
coronavirus pandemic in Germany
, Hartges told
Welt live
: "The situation is really dramatic, the situation is devastating."
She expects answers
from the
lockdown summit in the Chancellery
to the following question: “When can we reopen and how?” There are now many “companies” in the
hotel and catering industry
“with their backs to the wall”.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Head of the health authorities calls for continuation of the exit lock
Update from February 10th, 6 p.m
.: The head of the German health authorities pleads for a continuation of the
curfew
in the
coronavirus pandemic in Germany *
.
She believes that easing is premature (see link).
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: fear of a third corona wave
Update from February 10, 4:30 p.m.:
Experts seem to be afraid of a third wave, possibly triggered by a mutation.
Above all, the mutation discovered in Great Britain is of great concern, as the mutated pathogen is supposed to spread even faster than the usual corona virus so far.
Now a larger number of the mutants have been discovered in Brandenburg.
As Health Minister Ursula Nonnemacher explained in the state parliament's health committee on Wednesday, 49 cases of the Great Britain mutant have so far been discovered in Brandenburg.
The number has currently increased by two new infections.
The districts of Barnim and Oberhavel are particularly affected.
As Nonnemacher further explained, there is a great risk that the virus mutation is already much more widespread.
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Corona mutations continue to spread.
(Archive photo)
© Marijan Murat / dpa
Corona in Germany: will the lockdown be extended?
Prime Minister shatters hope for "opening orgy"
Original message from February 10th:
Berlin - The coronavirus * has been spreading in Germany and the world for about a year.
Several thousand people in Germany are still infected with the pathogen every day.
The country has been in lockdown since mid-December.
A possible extension will be discussed on Wednesday at a crisis summit.
It is not yet clear whether citizens could even adjust to easing.
If it is up to Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann, these are still a long way off.
If the nationwide incidences are below 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a certain period of time, careful opening steps will be taken, he told the
Badische Zeitung
on Wednesday.
“But nobody can expect us to
start an opening orgy right away.” The situation is too fragile for that.
"The experience of other countries shows
that opening up too
early leads to
setbacks and thus to even tougher measures." Everyone has to limit their contacts.
Regarding the declining approval of the pandemic policy among the population, Kretschmann said: "If you were to compare the fight against the virus with a war, you would have to say: people are slowly getting tired of war."
In Germany, the 7-day incidence * is currently 68.0.
So far, no federal state has been below the 50 value.
Baden-Württemberg, along with four other federal states, has already made it below the 60s (see list).
In contrast, Saarland (101.1) and Thuringia (122.6) have been problem children for days.
"In Brandenburg, Saarland, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, the 7-day incidence is significantly higher than the overall incidence," says the current situation report from the Robert Koch Institute * (RKI).
After all, the RKI data from the previous day shows a slight improvement in Thuringia (previous day: 123).
Corona in Germany - 7-day incidence below 60
Baden-Württemberg 57.6
Berlin - 56.2
Rhineland-Palatinate - 57.6
Hamburg - 58.6
Lower Saxony 59.8
Corona in Germany: dodger attacks inspector - and spits in his face
Meanwhile, there was a brutal incident in Cologne Central Station.
According to the police, a fare dodger hit a ticket inspector and spat on him.
The 23-year-old and his 20-year-old girlfriend got on an S-Bahn without a ticket.
When the employee of the Deutsche Bahn asked for the ticket, the couple tried to escape.
The controller held the young man who immediately thrashed around so that both fell to the ground.
Then, according to the information, the 23-year-old pulled off the protective mask of the railway employee and spat in his face.
The woman hit the 39-year-old on the head.
Police officers who were alerted took the couple to the station.
The two are now threatened with criminal proceedings for bodily harm and fraudulent performance.
(jl with material from dpa)
* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen digital network
