Hof in Upper Franconia has been one of Germany's corona hotspots for days.
Now the Bavarian city has launched a three-point plan.
Hof - Hof in Upper Franconia has had one of the highest Corona * incidences in Germany for days.
According to the Robert Koch Institute *, the seven-day incidence * is currently 268.4 (as of March 17, 3:24 a.m.).
This is the fifth highest value nationwide.
Only the district of Kulmbach has an even higher incidence in the Free State of 311.6.
Corona hotspot Hof: The city reacts to the high incidence value with a three-point plan
The city is reacting and is now increasingly monitoring distances and masking requirements. * In addition, testing options are being expanded and migrants are being informed in the local language.
This is what
Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)
reports on the three-point plan.
The Hof region had previously announced that it wanted to be the first in Bavaria to deviate from the vaccination sequence specified throughout Germany in the fight against the high corona numbers.
General practitioners are already vaccinating against Corona as part of a pilot project in the Hof area, as the
BR
further reports.
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Corona hotspot Hof in Upper Franconia: Mayor Döhla announces rapid test station
Hof's Lord Mayor Eva Döhla (SPD *) announced that a new rapid test station of the Diakonie on campus will start operating on Wednesday (March 17).
On Sunday, two more stations will start at the Ossecker Stadium and at the Eisteich.
So far there is only one test station, as the
BR
reports.
According to the report, the rapid tests * are free of charge.
In addition, an information campaign is to be launched in several languages.
This is intended to reach immigrant people in particular.
In English, Turkish, Russian and Arabic, people are called upon to be tested.
In addition, according to
BR, there should
also be flyers, video signs and posters, for example at bus stops.
Controls in the Corona hotspot in Hof are tightened: mask requirements are more strictly monitored
As a third measure, the controls in Hof are to be tightened.
According to the report, employees of the public order office should in future ensure that not too many people shop in supermarkets and that the minimum distances at bus stops are observed.
The mask requirement in the city should also be monitored more closely.
Hof's mayor hopes to prevent the emergence of sources of infection.
The plan was created in coordination with District Administrator Oliver Bär (CSU *), as it is called from the town hall.
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