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Corona in Germany: border town imposes contact ban - outbreak in physical practice has consequences for hundreds

2021-02-18T10:13:42.400Z


The corona mutations are causing great concern in the coronavirus pandemic in Germany. For the time being, meetings are no longer allowed in Flensburg. The news ticker.


The corona mutations are causing great concern in the coronavirus pandemic in Germany.

For the time being, meetings are no longer allowed in Flensburg.

The news ticker.

  • Coronavirus pandemic in Germany

    : The British corona mutation B.1.1.7 * is causing great concern.

  • Due to the spread of the mutant, Flensburg imposed an exit and contact ban (see first report).

  • Meanwhile, there was a corona outbreak in a physiotherapy practice (see update from February 18, 6.25 a.m.).

  • This

    news ticker on the Corona crisis * in Germany

    is updated regularly.

Update from February 18, 10:40 a.m.:

The health authorities in Germany reported 10,207 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day - hardly less than a week ago.

In addition, 534 additional deaths were recorded within 24 hours.

On Thursday last week, the RKI had recorded 10,237 new infections and 666 new deaths within one day.

The high of 1,244 newly reported deaths was reached on January 14th.

The number of new infections registered within 24 hours, 33,777, was the highest on December 18, but it contained 3,500 late reports. According to the RKI, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants reported within seven days (seven-day incidence) was nationwide on Wednesday morning at 57.1 - and thus slightly higher than the previous day (57.0).

In the days before, there had been no significant decrease in the incidence.

Four weeks ago, on January 21, the incidence had been 119.0.

Its previous high was reached on December 22nd at 197.6.

Corona in Germany: number of new infections stagnated - no further decline recorded

Does the decline in the number of infections that have been observed for weeks threaten to come to a standstill?

An assessment will only be possible in a few days.

Experts point out that due to the weather conditions, some people may have recently visited a doctor or a test center later than usual and new infections were therefore detected with a delay.

The development in the course of the spread of the more contagious variant B.1.1.7 is not yet foreseeable.

The nationwide seven-day R-value was 0.85 according to the RKI management report from Wednesday evening (previous day 0.84), here too there is currently stagnation instead of a further decline.

The value means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 85 more people.

The value represents the infection process 8 to 16 days ago.

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

Update from February 18,

6:25 a.m

.:

After several corona cases in a physical practice in Wedel, Schleswig-Holstein, more than 400 people are in quarantine as contact persons.

The path of the infections is still unclear, the district announced on Wednesday evening.

So far, five employees and six patients have tested positive for the corona virus.

The practice will initially be closed for two weeks.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Corona numbers explode - Grenzstadt imposes contact ban

First report

from February 17th:

Munich / Flensburg - The British Corona mutation B.1.1.7 keeps the authorities in Germany continuously on their toes.

Latest development: Presumably because of the Covid-19 mutant, the number of new infections with the insidious corona virus * in Flensburg has risen drastically within a short time.

And that has consequences: From Saturday, February 20, there will be a

curfew between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. including a ban on contact

in the north German border town (around 90,000 inhabitants) with Denmark

.

In concrete terms: Members of a household are then no longer allowed to meet other people, either outside or inside.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Great concerns about the Corona mutation B.1.1.7 nationwide

The Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein Daniel Günther (CDU *) announced this Wednesday in Kiel.

Because of corona easing *!

The northernmost German state wants to prevent the spread of the mutant as well as possible with these contact restrictions.

The respective authorities in Hamm (North Rhine-Westphalia) and Osnabrück (Lower Saxony) had already taken quarantine measures at the beginning of the week.

Depending on several positive tests for the virus variant B.1.1.7, which is not only supposed to be significantly more contagious but also more dangerous than the original form of Corona.

Corona infections in Germany: The 7-day incidence in Flensburg is well above the average

The Mayor of Flensburg, Simone Lange (SPD), said the current situation in the city was "worrying".

With the "consistently high incidence and a proportion of mutations in infections of well over 33 percent, courageous action is required".

The seven-day incidence * in the city was last at 181.9 and thus well above the national average.

Follow all information and developments on the

corona pandemic in Germany here in the news ticker

.

(pm)

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Source: merkur

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