The number of corona cases in Germany is extremely high in some regions.
The British mutation B.1.1.7 is becoming more and more popular.
All information in the news ticker.
In Germany, the corona incidence is in some regions above the 100 mark "emergency brake" for relaxation.
Lauterbach is skeptical about the upcoming easing.
The proportion of the British virus mutation B.1.1.7 * in new infections is increasing unchecked.
This news ticker on the corona situation in Germany is continuously updated.
Update from March 5, 8:33 p.m
.: The number of reproductions in Germany has risen again above the critical value of 1.
As the Robert Koch Institute announced in its management report on Friday, the seven-day average R value is 1.04.
The day before it was 0.99.
If the number of reproductions is constantly below 1, the infection rate subsides.
Corona in Germany: Lauterbach - "Prerequisites for opening steps are never met"
Update from March 5, 4:36 p.m
.: Karl Lauterbach doubts that there will be further easing in Germany.
"The opening steps that are in the paper are mostly never implemented because the prerequisites for this - either stable or even falling numbers of cases - are never achieved," said the SPD health expert to the broadcaster n-tv.
In his opinion, the antigen tests are too late * to control the loosening from the start of the openings.
Lauterbach does not want to speculate about easing at Easter in early April.
“But I don't think that we will see falling case numbers or even stable case numbers in the next four weeks.” Businesses and schools could be made safer if antigen rapid tests were available in sufficient numbers.
This could also reduce the R-value.
"That would really slow down the third wave," said the SPD politician.
Corona in Germany: State now lowers vaccination age - "Second group fully open"
Update from March 5, 3:54 p.m
.: Thuringia is now
vaccinating
people aged 70 and over.
The ministry announced on Friday that police and law enforcement officers who are exposed to a high risk of infection during demonstrations, as well as soldiers who are deployed abroad, can now receive a vaccination.
With the vaccination capacities that are now available, the second prioritization group can be fully opened, the ministry said.
According to the information, the group of 70 to 80 year olds in Thuringia includes around 230,000 people.
Corona in Germany - incidence value in Thuringia further increased
In Thuringia, the 7-day incidence is currently 128.9 (previous day 127.9), according to data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
Thuringia is the only federal state that currently exceeds the 100 threshold for easing.
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"No more lockdown!" Is written on posters on some shop windows in the old town in Erfurt (Thuringia).
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Update from March 5, 2:49 p.m
.: Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called for a joint commemoration for the victims of the corona pandemic.
“That is and will remain a harrowing, disturbing dimension,” said Steinmeier in a conversation with bereaved at Bellevue Palace in Berlin.
On April 18, a memorial ceremony with the state leadership and bereaved families is to take place in Berlin.
Many of the victims died lonely.
Update from March 5, 1:15 p.m.:
The criticism of the sluggish vaccinations against the corona virus in Germany is unchecked.
A university professor is now stepping up - and a doctor is warning of more deaths due to the corona lockdown *.
“Emergency brake” - the number of regions with a 7-day incidence over 100 is increasing
Update from March 5, 10.13 a.m
.: The "emergency brake" must pull regions with an incidence of over 100.
That was decided at the Corona summit last Wednesday.
Any easing would have to be reversed.
According to data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), 63 regions currently exceed the 100 mark (previous day: 60).
The RKI shows 412 regions on its Covid-19 dashboard - including counties and urban districts.
Above all, numerous districts in Bavaria on the border with the Czech Republic and Austria can only dream of easing the lockdown.
According to the latest RKI data, the corona hotspot is the city of Hof (Bavaria) - the 7-day incidence here is 342.6.
Corona in Germany - British Corona mutation B.1.1.7 continues to prevail
Update from March 5, 9.11 a.m
.: The share of the British corona mutation is currently almost 40 percent, RKI boss Lothar Wieler announced at the press conference.
In his opinion, this is worrying.
The corona variant is more contagious and dangerous.
He sees a trend reversal in the corona pandemic in the developments.
Wieler emphasizes that all vaccines protect against the corona mutations.
Current data would show that all vaccines protected against severe courses of Covid-19.
"Vaccines and everyone who can be vaccinated point the way out of the pandemic," said RKI boss Wieler.
Update from March 5, 8:56 a.m.:
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reports 10,580 new corona infections and 264 deaths on Friday morning.
Jens Spahn, RKI boss Lothar Wieler and NRW health minister Karl Laumann give a press conference in Berlin on the current corona situation.
It's about rapid tests and vaccinations.
Corona in Germany - situation in the intensive care units
Update from March 5, 7:25 a.m.:
The numbers in the corona pandemic had finally stabilized in February, even a decline in officially registered new infections was recorded.
However, after many experts have already forecast a third wave, the RKI once again registered an increase in the numbers compared to the previous week on Friday (see update from 6.30 a.m.), the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi) also published depressing numbers.
Because despite the downward trend in the number of Covid 19 patients, the number of free beds in intensive care units in Germany has remained roughly constant since the beginning of the year.
Operations that had been postponed are currently being
carried out
again
or are even being increasingly carried out, a spokeswoman for Divi told the German press agency.
"Accordingly, after major heart surgery or severe tumor resections, larger numbers of patients are currently back in intensive care units."
In any case, the treatment of the large number of Covid 19 patients at the end of December and beginning of January was only possible because other patients were earlier had been moved to other wards than usual.
The bed occupancy rate in the intensive care units is "still very stable," said the spokeswoman.
Around 3700 free intensive care beds are shown in the Divi intensive care register (as of Thursday).
Around 2,800 Covid-19 cases are still being treated.
That is less than half as much as at the beginning of the year, but only slightly less than during the peak of the first wave in spring 2020.
Corona in Germany: RKI publishes current infection numbers and another increase in numbers
Update from March 5, 6:30 a.m.:
Is Germany likely to face a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic soon?
After the federal and state governments announced some opening measures on Wednesday, many experts will be observing the daily published infection numbers even more critically than before.
Many of them expect a drastic increase in the number of infections soon.
For Friday, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported again, as in the past few days, higher numbers than a week ago.
The health authorities in Germany reported 10,580 new corona infections to the RKI within one day.
In addition, 264 additional deaths were recorded within 24 hours.
That comes from the numbers of the RKI from Friday.
Exactly one week ago, the RKI recorded 9,997 new infections and 394 new deaths within one day.
The seven-day incidence, i.e. the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants reported within seven days, was 65.4 nationwide on Friday morning - and thus slightly higher than the previous day (64.7).
According to the RKI management report on Thursday, the nationwide seven-day R-value was 0.99 (previous day 0.93).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 99 more people.
The value represents the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago.
If it is below 1 for a longer period of time, the infection process subsides;
if it is consistently higher, the number of cases increases.
Corona in Germany: RKI numbers from Thursday
Update from March 4, 9.45 p.m.:
According to the RKI situation report on Thursday, the seven-day R value in Germany was 0.99 (previous day 0.93).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 99 more people.
The value represents the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago.
If it is below 1 for a longer period of time, the infection rate levels off;
if it is consistently higher, the number of cases increases.
First report from March 4th:
Rheinstetten - Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic *, meat and slaughterhouses have developed into a major source of infection.
There have been repeated outbreaks in the relevant companies, such as the Tönnies factories in the Gütersloh district.
Now the list is one case longer.
Corona in Germany: Virus outbreak in Edeka meat plant - 69 people infected
Dozens of employees have been infected with the corona virus in an Edeka Südwest meat factory in Rheinstetten.
A spokesman for the Karlsruhe district office reported on Thursday of 69 people who tested positive and 140 contact persons who had to remain in quarantine.
Around 1200 employees work in the company.
Because the infection process is not diffuse and the contacts can be easily tracked, the outbreak initially has no consequences such as any exit restrictions.
A spokesman for Edeka Südwest said: "We have to assume that the source of infection is in the private sphere."
Corona in Germany: There is also a case at Edeka-Fleischwerk - mutation is spreading
Overall, one case can be traced back to the British virus mutation B.1.1.7 *, which can generally be regarded as positive.
The Robert Koch Institute * reported on Wednesday (March 3) that 46 percent of positive corona tests * across Germany are now due to the British variant.
The mutation is thus spreading further and further in this country.
A good month ago, the RKI had put their share at just six percent, two weeks ago it was 22 percent.
According to initial scientific findings, the new variant is not more deadly but far more contagious.
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More and more positive corona tests are due to virus variants.
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Corona in Germany: "Without mutations, our incidences would only be about half as high"
If it didn't exist, Germany would have already achieved its incidence target of 35 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants.
Politicians have set this value for extensive easing.
According to the current RKI situation report from Thursday (March 4), the Federal Republic has an incidence of 65.
The statistician Christian Hesse from the University of Stuttgart explains to
bild.de
:
“Without this advance (of
the mutations
) our incidences would actually only be about half as high.
The downward trend that we had since mid-January first bottomed out in the second half of February and has now turned into an upward trend. "
Corona in Germany: Foster child Thuringia - incidence of 128
The virus is currently most rampant in Thuringia (incidence of 128), the only federal state with a three-digit incidence.
Saxony-Anhalt (85) and Bremen (76) also have comparatively high incidence values.
The situation is most relaxed in Rhineland-Palatinate (49) and Schleswig-Holstein (49), which are the only federal states below the 50s incidence.
Meanwhile, it is interesting that the incidence value continues to decline in the elderly population.
It is now 57 in the population group over 80 and only 45 in the 60-79 year-olds. According to the current infection rate, 117,300 people are currently actively infected with the corona virus, and Germany has had around 2.7 million corona cases since the outbreak of the pandemic .
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