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Corona rapid tests in NRW: Laumann makes bitter confession

2021-03-05T09:13:23.120Z


North Rhine-Westphalia wants to get out of lockdown with tests, vaccinations and digital apps. With the promised free quick test there is already a problem in NRW. All information in our news ticker.


North Rhine-Westphalia wants to get out of lockdown with tests, vaccinations and digital apps.

With the promised free quick test there is already a problem in NRW.

All information in our news ticker.

  • Which corona measures are being relaxed or extended in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)?

    Laschet speaks of a change of perspective after the Corona summit (March 3, 2021).

  • With around 17.9 million inhabitants, NRW is the most populous state in Germany.

    The pace of vaccination and free rapid tests are a major challenge for the country.

  • During the Corona summit, Markus Söder and Armin Laschet also clashed (update from March 3, 6:53 p.m.).

  • This news ticker is updated regularly.

Update from March 4, 9:32 a.m

.: NRW Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann participates this Friday morning at the press conference with Health Minister Jens Spahn and RKI boss Lothar Wieler.

"Every fourth person in Germany is vaccinated in North Rhine-Westphalia," said NRW Minister Laumann.

The country is facing a major challenge when it comes to vaccination.

Although the nursing homes were successfully protected through the vaccination campaign, there are also people under 80 who are at risk.

Family doctors in North Rhine-Westphalia should start vaccinating the chronically ill as early as the end of March.

There is still a problem with the free rapid tests in North Rhine-Westphalia.

"We cannot make an offer to all citizens of North Rhine-Westphalia next week," admitted Health Minister Laumann.

To achieve this, many drugstore chains and pharmacies would have to be integrated into the infrastructure.

Here you can find the live ticker for the press conference.

"The release of the AstraZeneca vaccine to people over 65 made me happy," said CDU politician Laumann.

The NRW Minister of Health presented his vaccination plan in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger.

"According to previous plans, we want to vaccinate a total of 756,600 doses of AstraZeneca (first vaccinations) and 620,000 doses of Biontech (first and second vaccinations) in March," said the Minister of Health.

“We expect a total of more than two million first vaccinations by April.

If we get the vaccine from Johnson & Johnson in the second quarter, we will have another vaccine in the future that is well suited for vaccination in the home and only needs to be vaccinated once, ”said Laumann.

Update from March 4, 10.13 a.m

.: What are the current Corona resolutions for NRW?

Prime Minister Armin Laschet informs the NRW state parliament about the new measures.

On the subject of incidence, there were interjections from the plenary.

Laschet admits that there are many hotspots in North Rhine-Westphalia, for example in Solingen, Düren and Hagen.

“Where do we live ?!” Laschet announces a new corona plan for NRW - and a new relaxation for children

Opening steps are possible because a kind of “protective wall around care facilities” has also been created.

When vaccinating, the speed would have to be increased further, emphasizes Laschet.

The plan is to come from the current 70,000 to at least 100,000 vaccinations per week.

"AstraZeneca is an excellent vaccine," says Laschet.

At the beginning of April, the delivery numbers increase significantly and can then be inoculated in large quantities.

He hardly understands that some people reject this vaccine: “Where do we live ?!” According to studies from Great Britain, AstraZeneca is better than Biontech.

Laschet has announced a special session on Saturday on the subject of free rapid tests from Monday (March 8th).

It is a huge logistical task to set up an infrastructure for the tests and at the same time to accelerate the vaccination.

In addition, digital chain tracking, otherwise a matter for the federal states, should be regulated uniformly for all federal states.

There should be “the same app for everyone” and this should be linked to the Sormas software.

Laschet outlined the opening steps for NRW in quick steps.

Pointed out that the so-called “Click and Meet” - in retail outlets with an incidence of less than 100 - would be possible as early as March 8th.

The Prime Minister receives applause for the relaxation of children in sport.

If the children are tested once a week, he sees no obstacle to the fact that up to 20 children under the age of 14 can play together.

Laschet was very satisfied with the Corona summit resolutions.

His stance in the fight against the corona pandemic becomes clear at the end of his speech: "Ideas to bring the virus to zero are not realistic, we have to learn to live with the virus." With this, Armin Laschet speaks decisively against researchers like the virologist Melanie Brinkmann from the Braunschweig Helmholtz Center.

The hope that one could "loosen measures with an incidence of just under 50 and keep the virus in check" was "fatal," Brinkmann told

Spiegel

at the beginning of February.

“We don't stand a chance with this course.

The numbers would rise again immediately. "

Update from March 4, 7:20 am

: North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet has spoken of a "change of perspective" in view of the step-by-step plan agreed by the federal and state governments for easing the corona crisis.

"We shouldn't just look at incidence values," said Laschet on Thursday night in Düsseldorf.

There is a move away from blanket closing towards “focused, controlled security”.

The mutated virus continues to spread.

"We will have to learn to live with the virus," emphasized Laschet.

The three elements of vaccination, testing and digital tracking of infection chains, for example using the Luca app, are now decisive.

"Many people are tired and exhausted from the pandemic," emphasized the CDU federal chairman.

He referred to the psychological, economic and social damage.

Restaurateurs, cultural workers and other self-employed suffered because they had been without sales for months.

The retail sector is also suffering massively.

The possible long-term consequences for children who have not been to school for months are also impossible to estimate.

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Corona in NRW: Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) speaks of a "cautious solution" before the federal-state conference on Wednesday.

© Sascha Steinbach / afp

Corona in Germany: Four other employees of the Interior Ministry apparently infected

Update from March 3, 9:04 p.m.:

Four other employees of the Interior Ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia have apparently been infected with the corona virus.

That comes from a report of the

Kölner-Stadt-Anzeiger

.

Previously, ten cases from the environment of NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) were reported.

“The other four employees come from a department in the Ministry's Police Department” who had attended a meeting with the Minister.

However, the officials concerned are "already recovered and on duty."

Corona in NRW: Laschet and Söder clash at the Corona summit

Update from March 3, 6:53 p.m.:

According to information from

Merkur.de,

there are controversial discussions at the Corona summit currently taking place

, especially between NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet and his Bavarian colleague Markus Söder.

The latter had therefore advocated that family doctors should be included in the vaccination strategy immediately.

A decision that Laschet would prefer to postpone, which is why Söder accused the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia of lacking confidence in family doctors.

Laschet is said to have said that if you were to talk about opening the system for general practitioners today, "then we will have them on our hands tomorrow." In the end, the group should have agreed on a compromise and aim for a period after Easter.

Laschet indicates new corona strategy in NRW: "This is the change that we are making today"

Update from March 3, 3:18 p.m

.: The corona summit has begun.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and the heads of the federal states advise on which easing is possible.

Is Easter on the brink?

An opening strategy is to be adopted this Wednesday.

But in the end, the federal states should decide on the individual measures.

In principle, the lockdown will be extended until March 28th.

Nevertheless, there should be easing.

There will probably not be any special rules for the contact restrictions over Easter.

For this, more contacts should be possible from March 8th.

After the meeting, NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) will announce the measures for his state.

We'll keep you up to date here.

Update from March 3rd, 11:53 am

: “Don't be careless, keep following the rules, but don't close everything across the board.

That is the change that we are making today, ”said NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) on Wednesday in the ARD“ Morgenmagazin ”.

Is the CDU chairman actually indicating a change of course in the corona strategy?

"This will be an important step today because we are not only relying on total lockdown, but also because we are accepting new funds." And these are tests, vaccinations and digital solutions to "bring basic rights back into force in certain areas" .

Laschet announced that tests in schools, daycare centers and companies are to be expanded.

Vaccinations are even more important.

“We need a lot more speed here, both with Biontech and with AstraZeneca.” In addition, too little has been talked about digital solutions so far - for example about apps that can be used to check in restaurants and, in the event of an infection, chains of infection can be traced.

The Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia refuses to look at rigid numbers of infections when opening the door.

With a 7-day incidence of more than 50, health authorities could understand chains of infection if there were more staff and better digital opportunities.

“Then the message is also: We are careful.

But we can open up and return to a responsible life, ”emphasizes Laschet on ARD.

Corona in NRW: Lockdown until Easter holidays?

Gastro kinked - Cologne hit hard

Update from March 3, 9:10 a.m

.: Are there any easing in NRW?

An extension of the lockdown is planned until the Easter holidays in North Rhine-Westphalia.

This is what it says in a joint draft resolution from the federal and state governments.

The gastronomy would be particularly affected.

According to the design, the catering should only open in a fourth opening step - combined with requirements in the outdoor area.

The North Rhine hotel and restaurant association has threatened to sue, reports the WDR.

The Dehoga Nordrhein announced that the plan was unacceptable.

One wants to commission a law firm with a corresponding lawsuit.

The updated draft resolution on Wednesday now outlines a five-step opening plan for the way out of lockdown, reports the AFP news agency.

The newly added fifth level now provides for outdoor leisure events with up to 50 people;

The prerequisite for this is that the 7-day incidence remains below 35 for 14 days after the previous level has come into effect.

In the new template, too, it remains that the federal states make the decision on the opening steps.

The openings can then take place nationwide or regionally.

So far, however, openings should only be made if the 7-day incidence is below 35.

It is now becoming apparent that, despite values ​​above an incidence value of 35, limited easing should be possible.

Easing is also under discussion at an incidence of up to 100.

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the weekly incidence in North Rhine-Westphalia is currently 63.8.

Locally, the differences are enormous: Cologne (77.6), Düsseldorf (51.9) and the Märkischer Kreis (124.6) are above the NRW average.

In contrast, the incidence is particularly low in Münster (32.7), Bielefeld (31.4) and in the Coesfeld district (30.4).

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the prime ministers of the federal states will discuss how to proceed with the measures to contain the corona pandemic from 2 p.m. (March 3).

The federal and state draft resolution provides for five opening steps

  • 1st opening step: schools and hairdressers

  • Step 2: bookstores, florists and garden centers.

    Possibly body-hugging services and driving schools with corona test.

  • 3rd opening step: retail stores, museums, galleries, zoological and botanical gardens are opened and outdoor contactless sports in small groups.

    Intermediate stages could be possible with slightly higher incidences, for example with “click and meet” offers in retail.

  • 4th opening step: outdoor restaurants, theaters, concert halls and cinemas, as well as contact sports outdoors and non-contact sports in halls.

  • 5th opening step: to allow outdoor leisure events with up to 50 people;

    The prerequisite for this is that the 7-day incidence remains below 35 for 14 days after the previous level has come into effect.

  • Emergency brake: The emergency brake should be pulled if the 7-day incidence rises to over a hundred on three consecutive days, according to the draft.

    Then the previously valid contact restrictions should come into force "from the second following working day".

Corona in NRW - Laschet relies on corona tests

Update from March 2, 3:24 p.m

.: "Testing, testing, testing" is, according to the words of North Rhine-Westphalia's Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU), in addition to vaccination, the message for fighting pandemics for the next few months.

"Because we will need millions of tests and self-tests in Germany over the next few months in order to live with the virus in order to live with the pandemic," said the CDU federal chief on Tuesday after visiting a medium-sized manufacturer of rapid tests in Moers. 

Which corona measures are being relaxed or extended in NRW?

Before the Corona summit on March 3, NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) emphasized that there are several building blocks.

The incidence value remains one component.

“But we have a lot more options today than we did a year ago.” Testing is another important component.

Corona vaccine doses remain lying - NRW city takes the initiative

Update from March 2, 3:20 p.m

.: The AstraZeneca corona vaccine remains in the refrigerator in many vaccination centers.

The city of Krefeld (North Rhine-Westphalia) is now taking this into its own hands - and is now vaccinating regardless of prioritization.

Krefeld will start vaccinating employees in elementary schools and daycare centers this Tuesday.

Six days before the regular vaccination start in NRW next Monday

(see first report)

.

The city had previously written to schools and day-care centers for the “special vaccination day”.

"The response is very large," said health department head Sabine Lauxen on Monday.

She is very confident that very large amounts can be inoculated.

The surprising special vaccination campaign was made possible because Krefeld had been promised around 1200 AstraZeneca vaccination doses at short notice.

These cans were allocated to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and were left over.

Corona in NRW: State increases the speed of vaccination - these groups are next

First report from March 2, 2021

Düsseldorf - From now on, employees in all medical practices in North Rhine-Westphalia can be vaccinated, the NRW Ministry of Health announced.

The corona vaccination campaign for daycare educators, teachers and police officers is due to start on March 8th.

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Corona: NRW Health Minister Karl Laumann (CDU) is pushing for vaccinations.

© Federico Gambarini / afp

Corona vaccination campaign in NRW

"With this we are reaching another milestone in the fight against the coronavirus: the broad vaccination of people with a high vaccination priority," said Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann.

“We are continuing our strategy of vaccinating vulnerable and vulnerable groups in particular.

Our goal - in addition to protecting the vaccinated - is to swiftly inoculate the vaccine available to us. "

No vaccine should "go to waste", said the minister on the current debate about the acceleration of vaccinations and the Astrazeneca vaccine, some of which are left over, as reported by the WDR.

One should deal with leftover vaccine "according to common sense" - if possible, however, vaccinate prioritized people.

The ministry asked municipalities on Friday to submit a vaccination offer to the following groups of people:

  • Medical staff working on an outpatient basis with regular and direct patient contact.

    These include, for example, (dental) doctors, their medical practice staff, drug providers and midwives,



    people who work in the public health service,



    staff from blood and plasma donation services,



    staff in SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and test centers  

Corona in NRW - vaccination start for the following group from March 8th

According to the plans of the state government in North Rhine-Westphalia, the start of vaccination for police officers is also scheduled for March 8th.

This emerges from a vaccination decree issued by the Ministry of Health to the municipalities on Monday.

According to information from the dpa news agency, there are 36,000 police officers with direct personal contact.

It is also about these groups:

  • Daycare supervisors, day care workers,



    teachers at elementary, remedial and special schools



    Police officers with direct contact with citizens - starting with the members of the



    staff, residents and employees of the workshops for disabled people and in special forms of living

The Ministry of Health assumes that a total of over 750,000 people belong to the above-mentioned group of people.

In the school and day care area, the range of vaccinations is aimed at 275,000 people, in the outpatient medical area around 300,000 people and 150,000 people in integration assistance.

The vaccinations should be administered both in the vaccination centers of the vaccination centers and via mobile teams in the facilities on site.

Corona vaccinations in North Rhine-Westphalia - start date still open for over 70-year-olds

The federal and state health ministers agreed a week ago to upgrade teachers at elementary and special schools and kindergarten teachers from the third to the second group in the vaccination sequence.

Group two also includes many chronically ill and over 70-year-olds as well as police officers.

"I assume that we will be able to start vaccinating people over the age of 70 in May at the latest," said NRW Health Minister Laumann.

The start of vaccinations for over 70-year-olds depends largely on the availability of Biontech vaccines and the progress of vaccinations for over 80-year-olds.

In the next few weeks, the vaccinations of “people in need of care in their own home” are to start “as soon as possible”.

Doctors from the vaccination centers take the vaccinees away or vaccinations are organized by the general practitioners of the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.

Corona vaccinations in NRW

In NRW a total of 1,311.95 vaccination doses have been vaccinated so far, can be read on the state's website.

Of these, 895,128 people received a first vaccination and 416,823 a second vaccination (as of March 2, 2021).

According to the Robert Koch Institute, 122,910 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were inoculated.

By the way: no other federal state has inoculated more of it.

The vaccination quota in North Rhine-Westphalia is 2.3.

People under 65 years of age regularly receive the vaccine from AstraZeneca.

The country is also deviating from its cautious stance and postponing the second vaccination of the dose to an interval of twelve weeks (previously nine weeks).

The ministry refers to "medical knowledge".

In our news ticker we keep you up to date on the Corona issue in Germany.

Corona situation in NRW

The Ministry of Health announced that there are currently 25,700 active corona cases in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The 7-day incidence is 64.3.

Throughout Germany, the weekly value is 65.4.

The corona situation in the cities and districts is different.

Last weekend, the city of Düsseldorf issued a ban on staying and forbidden to stand and sit on the Rhine.

Current corona case numbers in NRW (as of March 2, 2021)

Corona cases in NRW

So far, 533,859 people in North Rhine-Westphalia have been proven to be infected with Sars-CoV-2

Corona deaths in NRW

13,141 people in North Rhine-Westphalia have died with or from a corona infection so far

People who have recovered so far

about 495,000 people survived an infection

7-day incidence in NRW

64.3

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List of rubric lists: © Federico Gambarini / afp

Source: merkur

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