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Corona in Germany: is the third wave already beginning? RKI reports again significantly increasing numbers of infections

2021-03-09T06:02:14.395Z


The number of new corona infections is still not falling. However, the number of deaths gives hope. News about Corona in Germany in our news ticker.


The number of new corona infections is still not falling.

However, the number of deaths gives hope.

News about Corona in Germany in our news ticker.

  • Coronavirus pandemic in Germany *

    : From March 8, easing of the tough corona lockdown * will apply.

  • The RKI reported more than 5000 new infections on Monday morning, but the fewest deaths in months

    (see update from March 8, 6:08 a.m.).

  • In Lower Saxony there is a Corona rule breakdown - which is why it is being relaxed even more

    (see first report).

  • This

    news ticker on the Covid 19 crisis in Germany

    is updated regularly.

Update from March 9, 6:35 a.m.:

The number of people officially infected with the corona virus in Germany increased by 4252 new infections on Tuesday.

In addition, 255 more deaths were recorded within 24 hours.

That comes from the numbers of the RKI from Tuesday.

This increases the number of new infections again compared to the previous week.

Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded 3943 new infections and 358 new deaths within one day.

Many experts already fear that the trend reversal could usher in a third wave.



According to the RKI, the number of new infections reported within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants (seven-day incidence) was


67.5 nationwide

on

Tuesday morning - and thus slightly lower than the previous day (68.0).

Four weeks ago, on February 9, the incidence was 72.8.

The number of new infections in Germany fell significantly for weeks in January and February.

However, it has recently stagnated, which could also be due to the spread of more contagious variants.



According to the RKI management report from Monday evening, the nationwide seven-day R-value was 1.03 (previous day 1.06).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 103 more people.

Update from March 8, 8:01 p.m

.: According to the RKI management report from Monday evening, the nationwide seven-day R value was 1.03 (previous day 1.06).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 103 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: Rapid tests will soon also be available from dm and Rossmann

Update from March 8, 4.10 p.m.:

After the discounters Aldi and Lidl, the drugstore chains dm and Rossmann are also aiming to start selling corona self-tests.

Provided that the deliveries arrive as planned, "we will probably be able to offer the corona rapid test in our sales outlets in the course of the week," said Rossmann on Monday.

From dm it was also said that they expect to be able to start in the course of this week.



Originally, both chains had announced the start of sales on Tuesday, but


linked

this to necessary deliveries

- these apparently did not come as quickly as hoped.

The Edeka supermarkets want to offer the tests "shortly".



Aldi had already started on Saturday, the packs were quickly sold out.

A spokeswoman for Aldi Süd said on Monday that there were more goods on the way and that there would be supplies this week.

"Due to the still high demand, the tests may also sell out quickly," said the spokeswoman.

At the checkout, each customer will still only get one pack.

One pack contains five tests.



At the discounter competitor Lidl, online sales of the tests started at the weekend, here too the demand was high and the website was temporarily unavailable.

On Monday it was only stated on the page that the packs would be “available to order soon”.

Corona in Germany: At least three percent of the population already vaccinated

Update from March 8, 3:30 p.m.:

While the number of infections in Germany has stabilized in recent weeks, the vaccination campaign is still rather sluggish.

At least three percent of the population has so far been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus.

Around 2.5 million people have already received the second dose of the vaccine, according to data from the Robert Koch Institute.

A total of 6.2 percent (approx. 5.2 million) therefore received at least one dose.



The nationwide vaccinations - after the first vaccinations in Saxony-Anhalt - officially started on December 27th.

The focus was initially on older people in homes.

Currently, with a good 203,000 vaccinations per day, a vaccination is carried out every 0.4 seconds on average, it said on Monday on the vaccination dashboard of the Federal Ministry of Health.



According to RKI statistics, most of the vaccinated are old people, staff in hospitals and old people's homes, and nursing home residents.

Corona: Critical situation on the cruise ship in Germany - 1,000 workers are stuck

Update from March 8, 12.30 p.m.:

The corona virus continues to spread, despite the easing of the pandemic from Monday, the risk of a third wave remains.

A critical situation with the virus could now have existed on a cruise ship, among other things.

As a spokesman for the Bremen Senator for Health said on Monday, further infections were registered on the Meyer cruise ship "Odyssey of the Seas".

Now around 1,000 workers and crew members are stuck on the luxury liner in Bremerhaven.

The infected would now be brought off board and isolated in a hotel.

The Meyer shipyard in Papenburg, where the ship was built, had already confirmed two corona infections last week.

According to the health authorities, the now infected people were classified as contact persons for the first two cases and were immediately isolated in individual cubicles.

"We do not expect further cases," said the spokesman.

To be on the safe side, the ship has not yet been released.

According to the Meyer shipyard, all workers on board are tested for the corona virus on a daily basis.

Corona in Germany: Free rapid tests from Monday - expert does not fear a "big run"

Update from March 8th, 8.37 a.m

.: From this Monday there should be free quick

tests

.

"I'm not expecting a big run at first," says Gerd Landsberg, General Manager of the German Association of Towns and Municipalities in the ZDF "Morgenmagazin".

Only when there were advantages with the tests.

Because the test result only lasts for six hours.

The CDU politician criticizes that there is always talk of a digital strategy, but that a uniform app for reporting positive corona tests with an interface to the health department is missing.

In view of the nationwide relaxation of the corona rules on Monday, the chief executive of the German Association of Cities and Towns, Gerd Landsberg, called for more speed in the offer of free rapid tests.

"We have to be better, faster, less bureaucratic, also more courageous," said Landsberg on Monday in the ZDF "Morgenmagazin".

He would have liked an earlier rapid test strategy, but now we have to look ahead.

Landsberg also called for the federal and state governments to listen more to the experiences in the local authorities.

He also hears a lot of displeasure from mayors because people did not show their frustration in Berlin, but on site.

Landsberg described the easing that has been in effect since Monday as "correct".

Corona in Germany: Incidence over 100 - there is no corona relaxation here

Update from March 8th, 8:19 am

: Above the "emergency brake" - ie a 7-day incidence over 100 - there are 66 regions in Germany, as can be seen from the RKI dashboard.

The three highest values ​​are recorded in Bavaria:

  • City of Hof (Bavaria) with 327.3

  • District of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge (Bavaria) with 306.9

  • District of Kulmbach with 258.5

Corona in Germany: RKI reports 5011 new infections - number of deaths at an annual low

Update from March 8, 6:08 a.m

.: Finally, after months of stagnation, there are easing, at least in most federal states.

In some countries, however, there are signs of a trend that is making experts uneasy.

In the past 24 hours, 5,011 new corona infections and 34 further deaths have been reported to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).

The number of deaths marks a new low in 2021.

In terms of the number of new infections, that is about 280 more than on Monday a week ago.

In terms of deaths, it is a new low in 2021. Important note: The numbers refer to reports to the RKI - not to the date of death.

And experience has shown that late registrations can always occur after the weekend.

The 7-day incidence is 68.0 on Monday morning (previous day: 66.1).

The RKI gives the so-called 7-day R in its situation report from Sunday evening as 1.06 (previous day: 1.06).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 106 more people.

The value reflects the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago.

If the 7-day R is below 1 for a longer period of time, the infection process subsides.

Update from March 7th, 10.15 p.m.:

In the tough coronavirus lockdown in Germany, easing of the corona rules * will come into force from March 8th - but that does not apply to every district and every city.

Because: The "Corona emergency brake" is taking effect in many places - two federal states are very much affected.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: The so-called emergency brake will apply from Monday

First report from March 7th:

Munich / Hanover - The Corona emergency brake *.

It is the newest vocabulary in the coronavirus pandemic in Germany.

The Covid-19 protection instrument applies if new infections with the insidious coronavirus * in a district, an independent city and / or a defined region exceed the 100 mark for 100,000 inhabitants within seven days.

So if the 7-day incidence *, another crisis vocabulary, is higher than 100.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Formal errors in Lower Saxony are likely to cause more relaxation

But: In Lower Saxony there was the next breakdown in the pandemic the day before the new corona rules came into force (from March 8).

Because the regulation in the northwestern state probably contains a formal error.

The news portal

ntv.de

writes

and refers to a corresponding report in the

Neue Deister-Zeitung

.

Accordingly, the so-called body-hugging services are allowed to open even with a 7-day incidence over 100.

For example, beauticians or tattoo studios.

According to the federal-state summit, this is not actually provided for in the emergency brake.

It is at least necessary to show a negative Corona * test.

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Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: regular breakdown in the corona emergency brake in Lower Saxony

Even more: As the state chancellery in Hanover explained according to the media report, driving and flight schools and libraries are also allowed to reopen in Lower Saxony regardless of the incidence.

An emergency brake that doesn't work?

At the start of the easing, it will be spectacular in Germany.

Many citizens are already complaining that they can no longer see through the jungle of corona rules at all.

Follow all

developments regarding the corona pandemic in Germany here in the news ticker

.

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* Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editors network

Source: merkur

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