State loosens corona rules in hotspots - intensive care physician warns: "Run with sight to doom"

The number of corona cases is too high.

The 7-day incidence rises to 130, reports the Robert Koch Institute.

The situation is serious before Easter.

A country relaxes rules - also in hotspots.

The pandemic news ticker.

• Corona pandemic in Germany

  : the situation worsens before Easter.

• The 7-day incidence rises to 130. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reports more than 17,000 new corona infections

  (update from March 28, 8:31 a.m.)

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• State relaxes rules for private meetings in hotspots

  (update from March 28, 1:07 p.m.)

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• Saxony-Anhalt will in future rely on the Luca app

  (update from March 28, 5:56 p.m.)

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• This

  news ticker on the subject of Corona in Germany

  is updated regularly.

Update from March 28, 8:18 p.m

.: The shortage of corona vaccination doses is causing problems within the EU.

The federal government's vaccine commissioner has now called for a huge supply of vaccine to be built up.

Every year, almost two billion vaccine doses should be produced, recommended Christoph Krupp to the

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

.

Only with a significant increase in production could every European be vaccinated once in the future.

"That would be 500 million vaccine doses in a quarter, so two billion vaccine doses a year," explained the head of the Vaccine Production Task Force.

There is also a need for action due to the occurrence of the corona mutations.

Negotiations are already in progress with the vaccine manufacturers.

Germany is to play a pioneering role as a production location and manage “a disproportionate share” of total capacities.

Krupp said the company was not set up sufficiently at the moment.

The recently opened plant of vaccine manufacturer Biontech in Marburg is able to produce 750 million vaccine doses annually.

But that's not enough.

“In purely mathematical terms, we need about three additional plants like this in Europe,” said Krupp, who saw a need to catch up.

Corona in Germany: Saxony-Anhalt wants to work with the Luca app in the future

Update from March 28, 5:56 p.m

.: A federal state is apparently building on the Luca app in the future.

Saxony-Anhalt wants to use the program in the future to track contacts with corona infected people.

A spokeswoman for the state health ministry said that the contract negotiations with the operator of the app are at an advanced stage.

The state wants to pay for the costs.

The plan is to network all health authorities in Saxony-Anhalt with the Luca app within four weeks.

In addition, the eastern German state has the option of connecting six districts or urban districts to the app beforehand.

Interested regions can submit their application until Monday.

Corona in Germany: intensive care physician warns - "Run with sight to doom"

Update from March 28, 3:20 p.m

.: Intensive care physicians are demanding a hard lockdown for two or three weeks.

"This will save numerous human lives and protect even more from lifelong long-term consequences of Covid," said the President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (DIVI), Gernot Marx, on Sunday.

He warned: "We run into perdition with our eyesight."

According to the DIVI intensive care register, there are still 1644 beds available in intensive care units for corona patients across Germany.

The association announced that the number of Covid-19 intensive care patients had jumped from 2727 to 3448 since March 10.

"This number will continue to grow exponentially over the next two and a half weeks, no matter what we do now," said Christian Karagiannidis, the medical and scientific director of the DIVI intensive care registry.

With more than 5,000 COVID-19 patients, things are getting really critical.

“That means something has to happen now.” With a forecast model, the intensive care physicians warned of a dire scenario at the beginning of March *.

Corona in Germany - federal state relaxes corona rules in hotspots

Update from March 28, 1:07 p.m

.: U-turn in Baden-Württemberg!

Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) wanted to enforce the "emergency brake" consistently and automatically in his country.

Now the state government is loosening the rules for private gatherings in areas with high numbers of infections.

Corona in Germany: Baden-Württemberg relaxes rules for private meetings - also in hotspots

Meetings of two households with up to five people are allowed within one week from this Monday on, even in areas with more than 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants.

“Children up to and including 14 years do not count.

Couples who do not live together are considered to be one household, "said the state ministry's announcement on Sunday about the new Corona regulation.

The so-called emergency brake actually provides that in hotspot regions with a 7-day incidence of over 100, only one household with one additional person is allowed to meet.

Most recently it was said that the relaxation was a special regulation for the Easter holidays.

New in Baden-Württemberg from Monday (March 29) is a mask requirement for all passengers in a car, if "people outside the household" are traveling with them.

Update from March 28, 9:38 a.m

.: Chancellery chief Helge Braun (CDU) warns of the appearance of vaccine-resistant mutations in the current third corona wave.

"We are in the most dangerous phase of the pandemic," Braun told

Bild am Sonntag

.

The coming weeks would decide whether Germany could foreseeably get the pandemic under control.

"If the number of infections rises rapidly again in parallel with the vaccination, the risk increases that the next virus mutation will become immune to the vaccine."

Then new vaccines would be needed.

Among other things, he called for regional exit restrictions.

"We have to stay well below 100,000 dead," said Lauterbach in the

Tagesspiegel

.

The SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach calls for at least two weeks of nocturnal curfew, which should apply throughout Germany.

In addition, all model projects of the municipalities would have to be stopped, in which the "emergency brake" could be relaxed under certain conditions.

Corona in Germany - RKI reports more than 17,000 new infections

Update from March 28, 8:18 a.m

.: The 7-day incidence in Germany on Sunday morning is 129.7 (previous day: 124.9).

That comes from the data of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).

Accordingly, 17,176 new corona infections were recorded within 24 hours.

That is around 3,400 more than on Sunday a week ago.

According to the RKI, 90 more people died in connection with Covid-19.

There are currently around 211,900 active corona cases in Germany.

• Since the pandemic began, 2,772,401 people in Germany have been shown to have been infected with Sars-CoV-2.

• 75,870 people have died so far in connection with a corona infection.

Corona in Germany: Christian Drosten provides new knowledge about vaccination - this affects people who have been vaccinated

Update from March 27, 8:45 p.m

.: News from the Berlin Charité: The scientists working with virologist Prof. Christian Drosten assume that the vaccinations against the coronavirus will probably have to be refreshed once a year.

This emerges from a study by Drosten and his colleagues, as

Bild

writes.

The researchers therefore expect the corona viruses to permanently change their surface structures in order to escape the human immune system again.

However, Drosten and his scientific team had found that the coronaviruses develop four times more slowly than flu viruses.

According to the virologist, this is a good sign.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania tightened corona rules

Update from March 27, 8:15 p.m

.: The incidences are increasing across Germany.

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is now reacting to the in part strongly increasing number of infections - and tightening the contact restrictions again.

From Wednesday (March 31st), visits to the hairdresser are only possible with negative corona rapid tests.

After Easter, you can only shop with a negative rapid test.

Four out of eight urban and rural districts currently have an incidence higher than 100.

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A bearer of hope in the corona pandemic: the vaccine from US manufacturer Moderna.

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Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: vaccine manufacturer Moderna is planning a plant in the east

Update from March 27, 6:20 p.m.:

The American vaccine manufacturer Moderna is planning a plant for vaccines in East Germany.

This is reported by the

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).

According to the report, the federal government is linking possible subsidies to an expansion of vaccine deliveries in Germany.

However, the pharmaceutical company cannot guarantee this.

So far, Moderna has been producing its corona vaccine * in Switzerland.

With a view to a new vaccine plant in East Germany, there is probably a big catch.

According to the

FAZ

, this should only start production in two years.

Update from March 27, 6 p.m

.: The 7-day incidence will soon no longer be the sole corona standard for lockdown rules in Germany.

According to a report, Bavaria is examining a different approach.

Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Karl Lauterbach calls for new exit restrictions

Update from March 27, 12:07 p.m

.: "

Exit restrictions

from 8 p.m. for two weeks would work," believes Karl Lauterbach in an interview with the Berliner

Tagesspiegel

(Saturday edition) about the corona situation in Germany.

That was seen in France, Great Britain and Portugal, explained the SPD health expert.

Possible curfews to contain the pandemic are highly controversial in Germany.

In view of the sharp rise in the number of new infections, Lauterbach is prompting renewed corona consultations.

"We have to renegotiate again quickly," said the politician.

“It won't work without a sharp lockdown,” he emphasized - and criticized: “In general, too little is talked about the dangers in political Berlin.

Far too little is talked about the strength of the third wave, which age groups it affects and how dangerous the mutations are for the middle age groups. "

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SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach is considered a warning in the corona pandemic.

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Corona in Germany: Hotspot breaks 500 incidence mark

Update from March 27, 11:17 a.m

.: An incidence of 514.2: The Saale-Orla district in Thuringia is nationwide the number one corona hotspot among the districts.

The 7-day value for new infections per 100,000 inhabitants was this number on Saturday (as of 0.00 a.m.) according to the RKI.

This was followed by the district of Schwäbisch-Hall in Baden-Württemberg (438.6) as well as the Thuringian Wartburg district (434.5) and the district of Greiz (421).

Corona in Germany: Intensive care physicians find relaxation "completely unsuitable" - Prime Minister defends model project

Update from March 27, 10.14 a.m

.: "The resolutions for model projects after Easter are completely inappropriate and must be withdrawn immediately by the federal and state governments": In view of the increasing number of infections in Germany

(see previous update),

the German intensive care

physicians are

calling for the planned lockdown to be waived - Relaxation after Easter such as in Saarland

Germany is "only at the beginning of a massive increase in intensive care patients," said Christian Karagiannidis of the

Rheinische Post

on Saturday.

He is the scientific director of the Divi Intensive Care Register and President of the German Society for Internal Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DGIIN).

The Saarland government wants to loosen the corona restrictions for gastronomy, sport and culture as well as private meetings nationwide with a corresponding legal ordinance from April 6th.

With a negative corona test, it should also be possible to visit theaters, cinemas, concert halls and fitness studios again.

If the procedure proves to be successful, further opening steps should follow from April 18th.

In model municipalities planned by other federal states, comparable regional test runs for a safe opening of retail, catering and event venues are to take place.

Saarland loosens despite Corona: "Our test infrastructure is well positioned"

Saarland's Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) defended his project, "which everyone had decided together at the last Corona summit by the federal and state governments".

"We are a small country, our test infrastructure is well set up, and currently the infection rate is moderate - so good conditions to do this across the Saarland," said Hans of the

Bild

newspaper on Saturday.

Contact restrictions are “still important”, “but not the only silver bullet”.

If the number of infections increases exponentially, his government will “pull the emergency brake in good time”.

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Scene from a beer garden in Mettlach in Saarland, shortly before the corona model project is to start in the state.

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Corona in Germany: RKI reports more than 20,000 new infections in one day - the incidence continues to rise significantly

Update from March 27, 7:08 a.m

.: The infection situation in Germany continues to worsen.

According to the Robert Koch Institute, the seven-day incidence was last at

124.9

.

That comes from the numbers from Saturday morning.

The value is now higher than it has been since January 19, when it was 131.5.

The data reflect the status of the RKI dashboard from 5 a.m., subsequent changes or additions to the RKI are possible.

On Friday the RKI had given the incidence as 119.1, two weeks ago it was 76.1.

The health authorities in Germany reported

20,472 new corona infections

to

the RKI over the course of Friday

, as it was called on Saturday morning.

In addition,

157 new deaths were

recorded

within 24 hours

.

Exactly one week ago, the RKI had recorded 16,033 new infections and 207 new deaths within one day.

The RKI has counted 2,755,225 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic.

The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections are not detected.

The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at 2,477,500.

The total number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 75,780.

According to the RKI management report on Friday evening, the nationwide seven-day R-value was 1.14 (previous day 1.08).

This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 114 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: Federal state announces exit restriction at Easter - afterwards easing for tourism possible

Update from March 26th, 8:48 p.m

.: Brandenburg wants the corona rules in the private sphere.

During the Easter period from April 1st to April 6th there will be an exit restriction from 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. with a seven-day incidence of 100 on three days in a row.

This was announced by the State Chancellery in Potsdam.

Exceptions for valid reasons are possible.

The cabinet agreed on this on Friday, but the decision should not be made until Tuesday.

If the incidence is significantly above 100 for a long time, districts and urban districts should take further steps.

Relaxation for culture and tourism should be possible regionally from mid-April through model projects.

An app for tracking contacts is planned.

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A night exit restriction could soon apply in Potsdam.

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“Completely absurd”: Lauterbach considers model projects to be the wrong signal - warning of extremely high numbers of infections

Update from March 26th, 3:01 p.m

.: SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach (58) has no understanding of the opening strategies and model projects in some federal states.

“We are currently experiencing exponential growth.

That will increase dramatically, ”Lauterbach told n-tv.

It is incomprehensible to him.

"We have to get the numbers under control first."

In his opinion, model projects send the wrong signal.

“They give the signal that we can reduce the number of cases by loosening up.

That is completely absurd, ”affirmed the SPD politician.

Employers should be obliged to test twice a week, and home office should also be mandatory.

In addition, the epidemiologist calls for a curfew for two weeks.

The aim is to prevent very high case numbers in the next few weeks and thus death and serious illnesses.

"It doesn't help to bury your head in the sand."

RKI boss Lothar Wieler warned of up to 100,000 new infections daily this Friday.

If so, it would not be possible to stop the spread of the virus now.

Lauterbach does not rule out 100,000 new infections in the next few weeks either.

It is the order of magnitude that can come.

Lauterbach remains optimistic in view of the situation: "If we react quickly, we can avert that."

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RKI warns of 100,000 new infections.

SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach also thinks this is possible.

© Kay Nietfeld / dpa

Corona in Germany - 4.4 percent of the population fully vaccinated

Update from March 26th, 1:46 p.m

.: Germany is still lagging behind when it

comes

to vaccination.

So far, around 12 million corona vaccine doses have been administered.

According to the so-called vaccination dashboard of the Federal Ministry of Health, 4.4 percent of the population (3,683,034 people) are fully vaccinated.

8,357,237 people received at least one dose of vaccine.

On Thursday (March 25th) 279,064 vaccine doses were vaccinated.

Bitter, however: Germany's dream holiday destinations are hopelessly

outnumbered

when it comes to corona vaccinations, reports

Merkur.de

*. 

Corona in Germany: More Covid 19 patients in intensive care units

Update from March 26, 1:21 p.m

.: The number of Covid 19 intensive care

patients

in Germany continues to rise.

Currently, 3,322 corona patients have to be treated in an intensive care unit, of which 1,818 are artificially ventilated.

This can be seen from the data in the Divi register (as of March 26, 1:27 p.m.).

According to this, 3,288 intensive care beds are currently still available.

According to the management report of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), 3,260 people with a corona infection were in intensive care the day before.

"Courageous attempt" - the virologist is skeptical of the model experiment in Saarland

First report from March 26, 2021

Saarbrücken - The virologist Martin Stürmer has expressed skepticism about the planned corona easing in Saarland.

The attempt is very brave, said striker on Friday on RBB-Inforadio.

The basic idea of ​​considering alternatives to lockdown * is not bad either.

Striker advised against adopting the regulation for the entire state.

The 7-day incidence in Germany is currently 119.

"I think you should first try to get the infection process under control again," the virologist pointed out.

"Even if the Saarland now has a low incidence *, it doesn't mean that it has to stay that way."

Stürmer added: "And that's why I would first go down and at the same time not lose sight of such models - but I would make them smaller and more targeted."

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Virologist Martin Stürmer is skeptical about easing as in Saarland.

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Saarland wants to get out of lockdown from April 6th

The Saarland state government wants to loosen the corona restrictions for gastronomy, sport and culture as well as private meetings with a corresponding ordinance from April 6th.

With a negative corona test *, it should also be possible to visit theaters, cinemas, concert halls and fitness studios again.

If the procedure proves to be successful, further opening steps should follow from April 18th.

According to the RKI, the 7-day incidence in Saarland is currently 61.1.

That looks good - before Easter.

But the development is dynamic.

Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn and RKI boss Lothar Wieler commented on the current Corona situation at the mandatory press conference this Friday.

Wieler warned: “We are at the beginning of the third wave.

There are clear signals that this wave can get even worse than the other two. "

Corona in Germany: model projects in selected regions

The German Association of Cities, meanwhile, appealed to the federal states to quickly determine the details of the planned model projects for opening steps in the corona crisis.

The President of the municipal umbrella organization and Mayor of Leipzig, Burkhard Jung (SPD), told the

t-online

portal

that the cities welcomed model projects to investigate opening steps for individual areas of public life.

“It is good that the federal and state governments have agreed to such model projects in some selected regions this week,” said Jung.

“The details for this must now be determined quickly in the federal states.

Only then can cities start model projects.

It is unfortunate when the impression arises that the cities are not creative and determined enough. "

Corona in Germany: NRW wants a model city

In the most populous federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, according to a newspaper report, models are to be tested in the megacity of Cologne, among other places, as to how retail, gastronomy and event venues could be opened safely.

The

Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger reported

on Friday,

using the example of the largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, to test how appropriate measures work in a metropolis

.

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