Germany extends the border controls.
Virologist Drosten is gloomy about Easter - and expects a "dicey" situation for over 50-year-olds.
The news ticker.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: The AstraZeneca vaccination * against Corona * has been suspended for the time being.
Is the corona test mandatory for Mallorca returnees now?
(see update from March 17th, 5:19 p.m.).
A court in Baden-Württemberg has partially overturned the quarantine requirement for contact persons (see update from March 17, 13:53).
Hamburg has passed the incidence mark of 100.
The city is threatened with the Corona emergency brake (see update from March 17, 12:36 p.m.).
This
news ticker about the corona crisis in Germany
is updated regularly.
Update from March 17, 6:57 p.m
.: The proportion of Corona variant B.1.1.7 is now 72 percent, according to a report by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Wednesday.
The more contagious and apparently more dangerous British mutation is now found in about three out of four samples.
The spread of variant B.1.351 (first detection in South Africa), on the other hand, is slightly declining, while variant P.1 (first detection in Brazil) is still only detected sporadically in Germany.
Last week, the RKI had spoken of around 55 percent of the B.1.1.7 share.
At the beginning of the RKI survey around a month and a half ago, the proportion of mutants was still six percent.
Due to the now high proportion of B.1.1.7, an exponential increase in the number of corona cases in Germany can be expected, according to the RKI report.
Update from March 17th, 5:19 p.m
.: Mallorca is the longing for Easter for many Germans.
After the popular holiday destination was removed from the list of Corona risk areas, the booking numbers skyrocketed.
That causes irritation.
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas (SPD) defended the lifting of the travel warning as "inevitable", reports the AFP news agency.
The definition of risk areas or high risk areas is given by fixed criteria.
The incidence value in Mallorca is well below these criteria.
Maas called on those who like to travel in Germany to be responsible.
The lifting of a travel warning is not "equivalent to an invitation to go somewhere".
Maas was open to compulsory corona testing for Mallorca returnees.
Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) had previously called for mandatory testing to be introduced.
Corona in Germany - experts expect new record values
Update from March 17th, 3:53 p.m
.: Germany
faces
tough times.
Nobody wants to and can probably hear it anymore: The corona virus is spreading rapidly again.
Top virologist Christian Drosten paints gloomy scenarios around Easter 2021.
A statistician also assumes that new record values are looming.
She considers easing in April to be unlikely *.
Corona hotspot in Germany imposes curfew
Update from March 17, 2:42 p.m
.: The district of Greiz in Thuringia is trying to bring the number of corona cases under control with a general exit restriction.
As of Thursday, the residents may their homes only for valid reasons to leave, reports
mdr.de
.
The 7-day incidence is currently 525.7.
The region is marked pink on the Covid-19 dashboard of the Robert Koch Institute
(see also update from March 17, 9.45 a.m.)
.
A test bus for mobile corona tests has been on the road in the Greis district since Tuesday.
According to
mdr.de
, District Administrator
Martina Schweinsburg
attributes the
high values
to more intensive testing.
Tests in five kindergartens would have caused the number of infections in the Langenwetzendorf administrative community to skyrocket.
Obligation to quarantine for "contact person of contact person" in the first federal state has been canceled
Update from March 17th, 1:53 pm
: The quarantine
obligation
for the "contact person of the contact person" has been overturned by the Administrative Court of Baden-Württemberg for the state.
According to the court, the quarantine order in the event of a corona mutation is not expected to be covered by the Infection Protection Act for “contact persons of contact persons”.
As a justification, the judges stated, among other things, that, according to the assessment by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), household members of contact persons in category one could not be classified as suspected of being contagious simply because they belonged to a household.
According to the BaWü Quarantine Ordinance that has been in effect up to now, people who have direct contact with a proven virus variant case must go into quarantine, as well as their contact persons.
This includes household members as well as the family members of students who have had contact with a classmate from their own school class or course level who tested positive.
Corona in Germany - Hamburg breaks "emergency brake"
Update from March 17, 12:36 p.m
.: The corona incidence in Hamburg rose over the 100 limit on Wednesday.
393 new infections were added, so there were 100.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days, as the health authority announced.
On Tuesday the Senate announced that if an incidence of 100 was exceeded on more than three consecutive days, the "emergency brake" would be pulled.
The most recent relaxation, for example in retail or contact restrictions, would then be withdrawn;
Schools and daycare centers would, however, not be affected.
The 309 new cases on Wednesday mean a significant increase: 100 more than on Tuesday and 106 more than on Wednesday a week ago.
The incidence jumped exactly 10 points within one day.
A week ago this value in Hamburg was 78.7.
Update from March 17, 12:33 p.m
.: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the Johnson & Johnson vaccine even in countries with virus variants.
WHO also recommends the vaccine in countries where the variants are widespread, said WHO expert Alejandro Cravioto on Wednesday after a meeting of the responsible committee in Geneva.
The vaccine has also been approved in the EU since last week.
Corona in Germany - European vaccination card from June 1st
Update from March 17th, 12.15 p.m
.: In the European Union there should be a digital vaccination certificate from June 1st.
Much, however, is still disputed.
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants to present a proposal on Wednesday.
Corona mutations: Germany extends border controls
Update from March 17, 12:08 p.m
.: Germany is extending its inpatient controls at the border with the Czech Republic and the Austrian state of Tyrol by another two weeks.
This was announced by a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of the Interior on Wednesday upon request.
Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) told
Münchner Merkur
: "We hope that we can end the controls on Austria a little earlier, maybe even in the course of March." In addition, one will take measures to protect against infection and contain the mutated virus watch closely in Tyrol.
On Thursday Seehofer meets the Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in Berlin.
Corona hotspot in the district of Greiz above an incidence value of 500
Update from March 17, 9.45 a.m.:
The 7-day incidence is currently increasing nationwide.
The Corona hotspot in Germany in this regard is the Greiz district in Thuringia.
According to data from the RKI, the incidence value there has now exceeded the value of 500.
The institute reported a 7-day incidence of 525.7 on Wednesday, up from 490.8 the day before.
Nationwide follow the Saxon Vogtlandkreis (342.9), the Bavarian district Kulmbach (311.6) and the Thuringian district Schmalkalden-Meiningen (311.4) - the only three regions in the 300 range.
The Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate has the lowest 7-day incidence.
According to the RKI, the value there is currently 9.8.
Corona in Germany: RKI incidence is approaching a critical value - Doctors' Association wants AstraZeneca for the elderly
Update from March 17,
6:23 a.m.: The RKI reported 13,435 new corona infections for Germany on Wednesday morning within 24 hours - significantly more than the 9146 new infections from a week ago.
The nationwide 7-day incidence also increased significantly again: from 83.7 the previous day to 86.2.
Four weeks ago it was 57.0.
Now a large medical association has spoken out.
The AstraZeneca corona vaccine will be approved again, believes the Virchowbund boss - and when the time comes, the vaccine will have to be used fundamentally differently: only be vaccinated to the elderly.
"We now have to take a lot more Biontech for the younger generation," said Dirk Heinrich to the
Tagesspiegel
on Wednesday and justified this with new study data from Israel, which showed that the drug also prevents virus transmission in people who have been vaccinated.
It must therefore be used more in the population group that is most likely to transmit the virus, such as day-care center employees, teachers, medical and nursing staff.
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RKI boss Lothar Wieler at a press conference on the current corona situation in Germany.
(Archive image)
© Florian Gaertner / imago-images
AstraZeneca corona vaccine only inoculated to the elderly?
"Less allergic reactions"
“We know from the UK that AstraZeneca can 100 percent prevent hospitalizations and death.
Even with older people, ”said Heinrich.
The complications that occurred with the AstraZeneca vaccine
(see first report from March 16)
were mainly among younger women: "We also see fewer allergic vaccine reactions in older people." Heinrich is the medical director of the Hamburg vaccination center.
If AstraZeneca remains exposed - which Heinrich does not assume - outstanding second vaccinations could also be given with Biontech or Moderna.
In his opinion, this might even strengthen the immune response.
The Virchowbund is the association of general practitioners and specialists in Germany.
According to his own statements, he represents the interests of 144,000 doctors.
Corona in Germany: Drosten makes a bitter forecast for Easter - and names a new risk group
Update from March 16, 9.45 p.m.:
Virologist Christian Drosten predicts high corona numbers in Germany at Easter.
"Shortly after Easter we will have a situation like around Christmas," said the scientist from the Berlin Charité on Tuesday in the NDR podcast "Coronavirus Update".
The proportion of the more contagious virus variant B.1.1.7 is now three quarters of all new corona infections in Germany.
Drosten expects the situation to become "drastically more difficult" because of the mutant.
It will be particularly “tricky” for the largely still unvaccinated age groups aged 50 and over.
So far, these have not primarily belonged to the Covid 19 risk groups.
In Germany, people over 80 are now largely vaccinated.
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach also said on Tuesday evening in the ZDF's “heute journal” that the third corona wave “will particularly affect those over 50”.
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Virologist at the Berlin Charité: Christian Drosten.
© IMAGO / Jürgen Heinrich
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: dispute between Dortmund and NRW over schools
Update from March 16, 9:20 p.m.:
The city of Dortmund and Armin Laschet's government have had a violent dispute.
NRW * prohibits school closings - despite increasing corona infections.
The indignation is great.
Update of 16 March, 18:35:
The
ZDF
shows the middle of the AstraZeneca-storm from a program of Hendrik Streeck.
It is like a collection of facts about the coronavirus *.
The virologist also speaks about concerns about corona vaccinations (see link).
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: again significantly more corona patients in intensive care units
Update from March 16, 6:15 p.m.:
The number of corona patients in German intensive care units increases significantly again in mid-March.
A look at different federal states shows that.
As the
Hamburger Morgenpost
reports, as of March 15, 100 Covid 19 patients had to be treated in intensive care units in the Hanseatic city.
A month earlier it was 74, the report says.
Intensive care physician Stefan Kluge from the
University Medical Center Eppendorf
is quoted as saying: "In Hamburg, the significantly more contagious British virus variant now dominates."
The next alarm signals in the coronavirus pandemic are also coming from Baden-Württemberg.
The Robert Bosch Hospital in Stuttgart currently cares for 35 corona patients in intensive care, write the
Stuttgarter Nachrichten
(behind a payment barrier).
But the medical director of the clinic, Mark Dominik Alscher, expects a rapid increase in the coming weeks.
The trend is clearly upwards.
Stuttgart physician on corona intensive care patients
In the meantime, only the Robert Bosch Hospital had cared for up to 100 corona patients a day, it is said.
A few weeks ago there were only 15 patients, says Alscher: "The trend is clearly upwards."
Jan Steffen Jürgensen, Medical Director of the Stuttgart Clinic, also warns in the report: “Up to February we saw a significant decline and since then unfortunately a trend reversal with a renewed increase.
What we urgently want to avoid is a situation like in the first wave, in which around 50 percent of operations across Germany - including those of children - had to be postponed. "
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Fight against Corona: a Covid 19 intensive care unit in Saxony.
© Robert Michael / dpa-Zentralbild / dpa
Coronavirus in Germany: Thrombosis cases after AstraZeneca vaccination - women especially affected
Update from March 16, 4:15 p.m
.: What should people
watch out for
who have recently been vaccinated with the AstraZeneca preparation?
According to PEI President Cichutek, vaccinated people have nothing to fear if they were vaccinated 16 days ago.
Before doing this, you should consult a doctor if you still feel unwell for more than four days after the vaccination, for example with severe or persistent headaches or punctiform skin bleeding.
He said that this Monday in the "Tagesthemen" of the
ARD
.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Paul Ehrlich Institute classifies thrombosis cases after vaccinations
Our first report from March 16
: Munich / Berlin - The seven cases of a special thrombosis that caused the AstraZeneca vaccinations to be suspended affected people between around 20 and 50 years of age.
The
Paul Ehrlich Institute (PEI) announced
on Tuesday.
Six of them had a so-called sinus vein thrombosis, all women of younger to middle age.
Another case with cerebral haemorrhage due to a lack of blood platelets was medically very comparable.
"All cases occurred between 4 and 16 days after vaccination with the Covid-19 vaccine Astrazeneca," it said.
Three of the seven people affected died.
Germany: Thrombosis cases after corona vaccination with AstraZeneca - connection "not implausible"
All experts consulted for the assessment were unanimously of the opinion that a pattern can be seen here and that a connection between the reported diseases and the AstraZeneca vaccination is “not implausible”, according to the PEI.
The number of cases after such a vaccination * is therefore statistically significantly higher than the number of cerebral vein thromboses that normally occur in the population without vaccination: "About one case would have been expected, seven cases had been reported."
AstraZeneca vaccinations in Germany: Serious side effects are more likely to affect young people than seniors
Serious cerebral vein thrombosis with platelet deficiency does not affect the age group at high risk for a severe or fatal Covid-19 * course.
Not seniors are affected, but people of younger to middle age.
"After considering and considering the above facts, the Paul Ehrlich Institute recommended that vaccination with the Covid-19 * vaccine AstraZenecas in Germany * be suspended as a precaution in order to analyze the cases further," the institute concluded.
Experts from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) will therefore examine during the week whether and how the findings affect the benefit-risk profile of the AstraZeneca vaccine and the EU approval of the vaccine.
(dpa / frs) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
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