In Baden-Württemberg, the corona infection rate is still at a high level.
The next easing is pending for schools, and free rapid tests are planned in the drugstore.
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Coronavirus: In Baden-Württemberg, the 7-day incidence is unchanged.
Baden-Württemberg supports the decision after the Corona summit.
At the same time, the country is relying on easing on district levels (see update from March 4, 10:07 p.m.).
This news ticker is updated regularly
Update from March 4, 10:07 p.m
.: Baden-Württemberg wants to allow greater relaxation of the corona lockdown for urban and rural districts if these are stable below an incidence of 50.
On Thursday evening, Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) agreed with Minister of Education and CDU top candidate Susanne Eisenmann on this implementation of the federal-state decision.
The confirmed government spokesman Rudi Hoogvliet of the German press agency.
In circles that are less than 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days, the retail sector, among other things, can gradually open.
The cities of Heilbronn (32) Freiburg (37), Baden-Baden (40), Heidelberg (41) and Pforzheim (49) are currently below this critical level.
Corona in Baden-Württemberg: Discussion about regional easing is ongoing
Update from March 4, 5:01 p.m
.: Corona rules in Baden-Württemberg - what is actually changing now when shopping or in the restaurant business?
Prime Minister Kretschmann leaves this question open for the time being.
Starting next week, there will be further opening steps in Baden-Württemberg - such as the opening of the hardware store.
However, it is still unclear whether there will be regional loosening of the lockdown at the district level or only nationwide.
At the special session in the state parliament on Friday, he will show how the resolutions of the federal and state governments for Baden-Württemberg are being implemented, said Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) on Thursday, as reported by the dpa news agency.
"This also includes the question of how we deal with the regions and the impending danger of shopping tourism if one region opens and the neighboring regions are still available."
The Baden-Wuerttemberg County Association had previously expressed criticism of the regional openings.
It is feared that an "alternate traffic" will start in circles with greater relaxation.
In Baden-Württemberg, the state-wide incidence is 54.
"I was thinking out loud" - Kretschmann defends the proposal to shorten the summer vacation
Update from March 4, 4:53 p.m
.: Kretschmann got a rebuff from teachers and the Ministry of Education with the attempt to shorten the summer holidays to catch up on knowledge gaps.
Education Minister Susanne Eisenmann (CDU) promptly said: "We shouldn't solve a problem by creating new problems."
Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister defended himself against the criticism.
"I was thinking out loud," he told the SWR.
“As Prime Minister you should never do that.” Shortening the summer vacation was just one of many considerations.
Baden-Württemberg: Free corona rapid tests at dm
Update from March 4, 1:31 p.m
.: In the future there will be free quick
tests in the
drugstore dm.
The Karlsruhe-based company is building corona test centers in dm branches in cooperation with Baden-Württemberg.
The plan is to offer free corona antigen rapid tests by trained employees, dm announced on Thursday.
According to this, there are 340 dm stores in Baden-Württemberg and 2,040 nationwide.
Corona: Baden-Württemberg is planning further openings at schools
Update from March 4, 1:23 p.m
.: On Monday, March 15, 2021, classes 5 and 6 in Baden-Württemberg are to receive face-to-face lessons again.
The German press agency found out on Thursday from government circles in Stuttgart.
That should apply until the Easter holidays.
All pupils should come into the school building and be distributed over several rooms there.
The requirement to be present remains suspended.
When the middle school starts again, it will not be decided until later.
Corona in BaWü: Kretschmann is thinking about shorter summer holidays
Update from March 4, 9:50 a.m
.: In Baden-Württemberg, perhaps more is being relaxed than expected
(see update from March 4, 7:40 a.m.)
.
How things will continue after the lockdown (until March 28) is still uncertain when it comes to school.
Now Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) is talking about shorter holidays.
So that knowledge gaps could be closed after the long school closings.
"You could cut a little something on the holidays to catch up on lessons," said the Green politician to
Mannheimer Morgen
.
When asked whether he was thinking of the summer holidays, Kretschmann said: "You could think about that."
Corona in Baden-Württemberg: Kretschmann goes along with opening steps - despite increasing numbers of infections
Update from March 4, 7:40 a.m.:
Baden-Württemberg supports the decision of the federal-state round for regional easing of the corona lockdown from an incidence of 50.
For example, there should be a gradual opening of the retail trade in the south-west as well, if the number of infections is below 50 per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days.
The lockdown to fight the corona pandemic will be extended to March 28th in view of the continued high number of infections.
The green-black coalition in the southwest has yet to implement the resolutions for the country.
It is unclear so far whether the secondary schools will be able to gradually reopen as soon as next Monday, as Minister of Education Susanne Eisenmann had called for.
Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann only wanted to comment on the resolutions on Thursday and discuss the next steps with Eisenmann.
The Greens had recently shown skepticism as to whether it will be possible to secure the reopening of the schools with enough quick tests for students so quickly.
The resolution of the federal and state governments stipulates that from next Monday onwards, with a 7-day incidence of less than 50, retail stores can reopen - albeit with a limit of one customer per 10 square meters or 20 square meters, depending on the sales area.
It is then also possible to open museums, galleries, memorials, zoological and botanical gardens as well as contact-free sports in small groups of up to ten
people outdoors, including on outdoor sports facilities.
However, the number of new infections with the virus per 100,000 inhabitants in Baden-Württemberg continues to rise.
According to the State Health Office in Stuttgart on Wednesday, the value was 54.4 across the country after 52 the previous day.
Accordingly, 20 out of 44 urban and rural districts were below the incidence of 50.
After an exhausting summit night, the federal and state governments decided on a uniform easing plan.
The rules at a glance.
Corona in Baden-Württemberg: Kretschmann wants to open hardware stores - little hope of further easing
Update from March 3, 1:39 p.m
.: The results of the federal-state talks on Wednesday afternoon are also eagerly awaited in Baden-Württemberg.
Is there another push in opening schools?
What about the rapid tests?
How about relaxations?
Much is still open.
When it comes to contact restrictions over Easter, things remain pretty quiet.
Baden-Württemberg's Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) had promised a relaxation
(see initial report)
.
Corona in Baden-Württemberg - 30 of 38 health authorities in BaWü used software
Update from March 3, 1:35 p.m.:
In Baden-Württemberg, 30 of 38 health authorities are currently connected to the Somas software, reports the
Bild
.
So much for the digital tracking of corona infections.
The software is intended to significantly simplify the follow-up in the corona pandemic, as well as the documentation of symptoms and the exchange of data with other competent authorities.
According to the media report, a total of 257 of 375 offices in Germany had been equipped with it by last weekend.
Corona variants are spreading in Baden-Württemberg
Update from March 3, 10.55 a.m
.: The infection process in Baden-Württemberg continues to pick up speed.
The proportion of corona mutations is increasing significantly.
The proportion of more contagious variants in the positive corona tests is now 50 percent.
However, the numbers are distorted because such variants are being tested specifically, reports the State Health Office.
In the past 24 hours, 1,084 new corona infections and 50 other deaths were recorded in Baden-Württemberg.
This can be read from the Covid-19 dashboard of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
The 7-day incidence is currently 52.0.
The country has had a stable value here for weeks.
Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) is meanwhile dampening hopes from further steps out of the lockdown.
This was already indicated before the Corona summit this Wednesday (March 3, 2021).
Baden-Württemberg wants to allow more freedom through extensive testing.
But mass quick and self-tests are a great organizational effort.
First the test capacity has to be expanded.
As far as schools are concerned, much still seems unclear.
What is certain, however, is that hardware stores in Baden-Württemberg will probably reopen on Monday at the latest.
Kretschmann announced this at the government press conference on Tuesday.
In the steps from Baden-Württemberg, however, there is a lot of election campaigning.
The state elections will take place on March 14th, before the Easter holidays (from April 6th to 10th, 2021).
In principle, the lockdown is to be extended until March 28, it is said.
British coronavirus variant B.1.1.7 first detected on December 24, 2020 in Baden-Württemberg.
South African coronavirus variant B.1.351 detected on January 11 in a family who entered from South Africa on December 13, 2020.
Since December 2020, 5,101 virus variants of particular importance (Variants of Concern - VOC for short) have been reported to the State Health Office from 44 cities and districts.
Corona variant B.1.1.7, which was first identified in Great Britain, takes up the largest share.
Corona in Baden-Württemberg: Infection numbers at a high level - Kretschmann wants to open hardware stores
First report from March 3, 2021
Stuttgart - The corona lockdown in Baden-Württemberg and the corona rules until March 7th still apply.
With the 7-day incidence, the country is best in Germany with 51.9 (65.4).
The 35 target value aimed at by the federal and state governments is still a long way off.
Only when the incidence of 35 is reached should advice be given about regional opening steps.
But the pressure is growing.
Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) wants to enforce more relaxation in the corona lockdown.
Even if the number of corona cases increases.
Its opening strategy is based primarily on corona rapid tests.
A remarkable change of course.
For a long time Kretschmann was skeptical.
In his impulse paper for the Corona summit with Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Prime Minister relies on testing in areas where the risk of infection is manageable.
Rapid antigen tests, which are suitable for self-testing, would be part of the hygiene concept in the future.
This was emphasized by the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg (Greens) at the state government's press conference on Tuesday.
However, he does not see the new role that he ascribes to the tests as a change of course in corona policy.
However, mass quick and self-tests should be available.
"That is a great organizational effort." The test infrastructure must already be there, "so that you can combine the test strategy with the opening strategy," said the Green politician, as reported by the dpa news agency.
Corona in Baden-Württemberg - DIY stores should open
Even the hardware stores in Baden-Württemberg should open again.
"The hardware stores will be open again by Monday at the latest," said Kretschmann at the government press conference on Tuesday afternoon, as reported by the SWR.
The hardware stores are already open in Bavaria.
Shopping tourism was feared.
Otherwise no further openings are planned.
There is still four weeks until Easter, but for Baden-Württemberg's Interior Minister Thomas Strobl (CDU) the holiday is the topic.
"This is a family celebration, similar to Christmas," said Strobl according to SWR.
It would need a perspective accompanied by a test concept.
Previously, he had promised a relaxation of the contact restrictions.
Corona mutation from South Africa in Baden-Württemberg - 150 people in quarantine
While easing is being discussed, a corona outbreak in the Achberg community in the Ravensburg district is making people sit up and take notice.
150 people are already in quarantine.
There was a case of infection with the Corona variant from South Africa at a primary school.
The SWR reports.
The school was closed.
The teachers and around 70 children as well as their contact persons were quarantined.
Last Friday, the South African Corona variant (B.1.351) was found in a school child.
A teacher is also infected.
It is still unclear whether it is the mutation.
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