Corona is picking up speed again.
Now, of all times, when easing is pending, the incidence is rising.
Federal states want to get out of lockdown, but how?
Various plans seep through.
Our news ticker.
Corona infection in Germany is very dynamic - despite lockdown * until March 7th.
With quick tests out of lockdown?
State rushes forward with impulse paper
(update from February 25, 4:49 p.m.)
The corona mutations are spreading more and more.
A federal state tightened the quarantine rules
(see first report)
.
This news ticker is updated regularly.
Update from February 25, 4:49 p.m
.: Baden-Württemberg is pushing for a step-by-step relaxation of the corona lockdown with the
help of rapid tests
*.
Corona in Germany: Baden-Württemberg wants to get out of lockdown with the help of quick tests
In an impulse paper for the federal-state consultations next Wednesday, which is available to the German Press Agency in Stuttgart, the state proposes, among other things, to open parts of the retail trade and gastronomy as well as museums in this way.
The organizers and operators of the facilities “must ensure that only those visitors who can present a negative test gain access,” the paper said on Thursday.
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With quick tests out of lockdown?
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Update from February 25, 3:02 p.m
.: Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) wants to fix opening
steps
from the lockdown not only to the incidence value 35, but also to local developments.
"It is wrong to reduce this pandemic or the infection dynamics to a single number, neither to the R value nor to the number of infected people alone," said Spahn in an interview with
Zeit Online
.
"At the incidence, for example, we should look more closely and regionally: Are the numbers falling or are they rising?"
And the minister continues: “Are the numbers due to a concretely definable outbreak of infection that we can clearly delimit and combat, or is it a diffuse infection process in which people no longer know where they were infected?
Are especially older people or younger people infected?
We should orient our actions accordingly. "
However, Spahn is still to take the 35 incidence nationwide as a benchmark - "but to consider additional variables."
Update from February 25, 2:10 p.m
.: The incidence must be below 35 - the federal and state governments agreed on this goal at the Corona summit.
Only then are there any easing - slow opening steps - for shops, museums or body-hugging service providers.
Germany is still a long way from achieving this goal.
The only federal state below the 50 mark is currently Baden-Württemberg with a 7-day incidence of 47.7
(see also first report).
Corona: Police warn Berliners: inside of a Baltic Sea walk
In other regions, however, the infection rate is extremely high.
The Berlin police expressly warned of day trips to the Baltic Sea via Twitter.
The district of Vorpommern-Greifswald, Usedom as well as Ueckermünde and Lubim are currently considered to be high-risk areas.
Entry is generally prohibited according to the Infection Protection Ordinance.
“We continue to check,” tweeted the West Pomerania-Greifswald police on Thursday.
“Unless there is a valid reason, you have to turn around.
Under certain circumstances, a fine procedure can also be initiated, ”announced the police on Facebook.
Entrants from Poland must report to the health department in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district after their return and be in quarantine, the district announced on Thursday.
The reporting requirement has been changed in the latest version of the Quarantine Ordinance.
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Corona in Germany: The state has the lowest incidence - and still tightened rules
First report from February 25, 2021
Munich - The number of corona cases is currently developing completely differently in Germany.
When looking at the daily new corona infections, however, one thing is noticeable: on Wednesday, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reports the highest number of cases of the week, based on experience.
Why it is like that?
RKI boss Lothar Wieler explained the phenomenon weeks ago at a press conference on request with test procedures, reporting systems and the electronic recording of the corona case numbers.
This explanation may be unsatisfactory for some - nevertheless, the number of corona cases is always at the highest level of the week on Wednesday of all times.
In this respect, a comparison of the number of corona cases on this day is quite interesting.
Even if late registrations are still possible, as the RKI emphasizes.
Corona in Germany: RKI reports 11,869 new corona infections
The health authorities reported 11,869 new Corona * infections (previous day - Wednesday: 11,800 new infections) to the RKI within 24 hours.
This comes from the data on the RKI Covid 19 dashboard on Thursday morning.
The number of corona cases is therefore higher - than on Wednesday.
Thursday February 25, 2021 |
Thursday February 18, 2021 |
Highest value in Germany |
|
|---|---|---|---|
New corona infections |
11,869 new corona infections |
10,207 new corona infections |
33,777 * new infections on December 18, 2020 |
Corona fatalities |
385 more deaths |
534 more deaths |
Another 1,244 deaths was on January 14, 2021 |
7 day incidence |
61.7 |
57 |
197.6 on December 22, 2020 |
* however contained 3,500 late registrations
Coronavirus: 7-day incidence in Germany is picking up again
In addition to the number of corona cases, the 7-day incidence * is currently an important value for the number of infections.
But here too the contrasts are sometimes enormous in Germany.
The 7-day incidence on Thursday is 61.7.
Baden-Württemberg is the only federal state in Germany that has an incidence of 50.
The country is now tightening the quarantine rules
(see more on this in the text below)
.
Thuringia has a value of 119.4 - the highest incidence.
The federal and state governments want to push the 7-day incidence below 35, only then should there be further easing in the federal states.
At least that's the plan - with lots of ifs and buts.
The size of 10 is also being discussed for opening concepts.
The next federal-state corona summit is scheduled for next Wednesday (March 3rd).
In the run-up, the country managers get in position.
In some federal states in Bavaria, for example, the hardware stores are being opened *, while in neighboring Baden-Württemberg they should remain closed.
Corona in Germany between lockdown or easing?
The coronavirus is on the rise in individual cities and regions.
Düsseldorf (NRW) has reintroduced the mask requirement after the incidence jumped to 56.1.
Hessen is planning further steps to relax the corona measures.
Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) announced a four-step plan for this at a digital CDU event.
The assessment of the Corona room for maneuver in Hesse will no longer depend on the incidences in the future, said the CDU state chief.
The corona pandemic must continue to be cautious.
"But we can't go on like this either."
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Corona in Germany: easing or lockdown?
That is the question.
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Corona mutations in Germany - federal state tightened quarantine rules
Baden-Württemberg tightened the quarantine rules.
With this, the country wants to slow down the spread of the more contagious variants.
Category 1 contact persons must be in isolation for 14 days instead of the previous ten days, the State Ministry announced on Thursday, as reported by the dpa news agency.
This also applies to household members of the infected person and household members of contact persons of infected people with a virus mutation.
Schoolchildren can only be free tested from the fifth day - as soon as it is certain that the person who tested positive has not been infected with a new virus variant.
The rules for entry quarantine are also being tightened: Anyone entering from a high-incidence area will no longer be able to be tested in the future.
Anyone entering from an area with virus variants must remain in quarantine for 14 days and cannot be tested either.
So far, those who have recovered from an infection have been exempted from the quarantine obligation for six months - due to the virus mutants, this exemption is reduced to three months.
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