The corona virus continues to rage in Germany and the RKI reports high deaths and infections.
In North Rhine-Westphalia there were “considerable disruptions” in data transmission.
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The coronavirus * continues to spread rapidly.
The current corona numbers from NRW were only incompletely transmitted to the RKI on Tuesday.
(see update from April 20, 12:58 p.m.)
In Saxony, the vaccination prioritization in medical practices for Astrazeneca vaccinations is being lifted.
(see update from April 20, 2.30 p.m.)
The RKI reports higher numbers of infections on Wednesday morning than in the previous week.
(see update from April 21, 6:32 a.m.)
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Update from April 21, 6:32 a.m.:
On the day of the decision on the nationwide corona emergency brake, the health authorities in Germany reported 24,884 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day.
That comes from the numbers of the RKI from Wednesday morning.
However, this could include late registrations from North Rhine-Westphalia from the previous day.
A large number of reports from the NRW health authorities had previously not been completely transmitted on Monday evening and Tuesday due to technical difficulties.
According to the RKI, 331 new deaths were recorded throughout Germany within one day.
On Wednesday a week ago, the RKI had recorded 21,693 new corona infections and 342 new deaths.
According to the RKI, the seven-day incidence nationwide on Tuesday morning was 160.1 - and has thus decreased slightly compared to the previous day (162.4).
Corona in Germany: Rhineland-Palatinate starts vaccinations for priority group 3
Update from April 20, 3:45 p.m.:
Starting this Friday, Rhineland-Palatinate will also enable corona vaccinations for people in prioritization group 3.
This was announced by Prime Minister Malu Dreyer and Minister of Health Sabine Bätzing-Lichtenthäler (both SPD) on Tuesday.
"The opening of priority group 3 means for us that well over a million people from Rhineland-Palatinate can register for a vaccination appointment from Friday," said Bätzing-Lichtenthäler.
The first vaccinations are expected to take place from the end of May.
Through this opening, for example, people with pre-existing conditions such as heart failure and asthma could also be offered a vaccination, explained the minister.
In addition, up to two contact persons are each entitled to vaccinate.
Corona in Germany: Saxony is lifting the prioritization for Astrazeneca vaccinations in practices
Update from April 20, 2:30 p.m.:
In Saxony, all citizens in medical practices can now be vaccinated with the corona vaccine from Astrazeneca. As Health Minister Petra Köpping (SPD) announced on Tuesday after a cabinet meeting in Dresden, the vaccination prioritization for this vaccine has been completely lifted. However, there are conditions: The Astrazeneca vaccination * may only be given in the practices involved in the vaccination program after a detailed consultation. Both the doctor and the citizen who wants to be vaccinated must agree.
In total, 20.2 percent of the population in Germany have so far been vaccinated against the coronavirus at least once.
This emerges from the vaccination rate monitoring carried out by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Tuesday morning.
According to this, around 16.8 million people received an initial vaccination, and around 5.6 million more have already received full vaccination protection.
On Monday, 381,095 corona vaccinations were administered within one day.
Corona in Germany: "Significant disruptions" when transmitting the RKI numbers in NRW
Update from April 20, 12:58 p.m.:
The current corona numbers for North Rhine-Westphalia were only incompletely transmitted to the RKI on Tuesday morning. "Since yesterday evening there have been significant disruptions in the state administration network," reported a spokeswoman for the State Center for Health (LZG.NRW) in Bochum. The RKI reported 9609 new corona infections nationwide on Tuesday morning.
The LZG has not yet received a “larger number” of reports from the health authorities.
"The given values are therefore unfortunately incomplete, we ask for your understanding," said the spokeswoman.
At first nothing was known about the reason.
The
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
had previously reported on the problems.
A table showed that large cities such as Cologne, Düsseldorf or Duisburg had not reported a single new case.
Corona in Germany: intensive care physicians warn against triage
Update from April 20, 11:55 am:
"If more contact restrictions are not immediately and consistently and nationwide ensured, the triage is still not excluded in the next few weeks," said Uwe Janssens of the
Rheinische Post
.
The former head of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) accused the federal and state governments of using political mismanagement to put doctors in situations in which a triage decision could be necessary in an emergency.
“Doctors should not be expected to make tragic decisions of this magnitude,” demanded the intensive care doctor.
The triage is "the worst that can happen to doctors," said Janssens.
Corona in Germany: Lauterbach reiterates calls for a curfew
SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach reiterated his call for exit restrictions on Tuesday. According to experts, this could reduce the R value by ten to 20 percent. According to Lauterbach on
ZDF
- "Morgenmagazin",
a quarter of what is necessary to reduce this number of reproductions to below one will be achieved through
curfews. In the planned Corona emergency brake, a nightly exit restriction between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. is planned.
The deputy FDP leader Wolfgang Kubicki spoke out clearly against exit restrictions.
He described them on
ZDF
- "Morgenmagazin" as "massive encroachments on fundamental rights".
The FDP is considering going to the Federal Constitutional Court.
Those who have already been vaccinated or who have recovered from Covid-19 who could no longer infect anyone should not be "locked up at home", Kubicki continued.
Corona in Germany: Medical President calls for tightening the emergency brake
Update from April 20, 10:20
a.m.: Medical President Klaus Reinhardt has asked the parliamentary groups to tighten the planned Infection Protection Act and to include other criteria for activating the Corona emergency brake in addition to the incidence value. "The incidence value alone says nothing about the actual burden of disease, since infections often run with no or only few symptoms," the President of the German Medical Association told the
Rheinische Post
.
When deciding whether to relax or tighten corona measures, it is therefore necessary from a medical point of view to “take further epidemiological data into account,” said Reinhardt.
Specifically, he suggested including the number of daily new admissions of corona intensive care patients and the number of intensive care and invasive ventilated patients in the last seven days.
On the basis of this data, a “prognosis index” could be created for the expected course of the coming weeks, said the medical president.
"Instead of just reacting, we could then initiate suitable containment measures in good time," explained Reinhardt.
Corona in Germany: RKI reports 9609 new infections - seven-day incidence at 162.4
Update from April 20, 7.45 a.m.:
The German health authorities reported 9609 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within 24 hours. In addition, 297 new deaths were recorded. This is based on the RKI figures from Tuesday morning, which reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5:09 a.m. Subsequent changes or additions to the RKI are possible. On Tuesday a week ago, the RKI reported 10 810 new corona infections within one day. In addition, 294 new deaths were recorded within 24 hours.
According to the RKI, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants reported within seven days was 162.4 nationwide on Tuesday morning.
The day before, the RKI had given this seven-day incidence as 165.3.
The nationwide seven-day R-value was 1.06 according to the RKI management report from Monday evening (previous day: 1.16).
This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 106 more people.
The R-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: WHO reports more new infections worldwide within a week than ever
Update from April 19, 9:55 p.m.:
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there have been more registered new corona infections worldwide within a week than ever before. A total of 5.2 million new cases occurred, as WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced in Geneva on Monday. There is great concern among experts about the increase in new infections and hospital admissions among 25 to 59-year-olds. Tedros sees possible reasons for this in the particularly contagious corona mutations and the many social contacts between these age groups.
Update from April 19, 7:36 p.m.:
One of the most famous German prisons has to go into emergency operation. After several corona cases, the correctional facility (JVA) Stuttgart-Stammheim reacted. "That means that there is also a freeze on admission," said a spokesman for the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Justice to the
Stuttgarter Nachrichten
. The Stammheim prison will not accept any more prisoners until at least Wednesday.
The days of negotiations planned there in the trial against the right-wing extremist group S. have also been canceled.
According to information from the
Stuttgarter Nachrichten
, six of the twelve defendants are imprisoned in Stammheim.
The newspaper also reported that seven people in the Stammheim prison had tested positive for the corona virus in the past few days.
The prison, in which the members of the Red Army Faction (RAF) around Ulrike Meinhof and Andreas Baader were once imprisoned, is currently under quarantine.
Around 200 people are currently serving their sentences in the Stammheim prison.
Corona in Germany: The next federal and state vaccination summit is imminent
Update from April 19, 6:50 p.m.:
The
The next federal and state vaccination summit is apparently imminent.
According to Brandenburg's Prime Minister Dietmar Woidke, the Chancellor and the state leaders want to meet in the coming.
The SPD politician told the
German Press Agency
that he was pleased about the "invitation to the vaccination summit next Monday from the Chancellery".
Update from April 19, 6:06 p.m .:
In the future, company doctors will also help with the corona vaccinations. Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) plans to include them in the vaccination campaign from June. "As announced, the vaccination campaign will pick up speed significantly in the second quarter," said Spahn happily. In addition to the promised deliveries of the corona vaccines from Biontech and Moderna, doses from Astrazeneca and Johnson & Johnson are also expected. “This gives doctors' practices and countries more planning security for May and June. And that enables us to integrate the company doctors into the vaccination campaign as early as June. ”According to the Federal Ministry of Health, Biontech intends to deliver 50.3 million vaccine doses in the second quarter. That would be ten million doses more than previously announced. In addition, Moderna has the delivery of 6,Promised 4 million doses.
Corona in Germany: Expert explains new approach
Update from April 19, 3:10 p.m.:
So far, the so-called Corona emergency brake and the implementation of the measures have been measured on the basis of the incidence value.
If a region exceeds the critical value of 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, the emergency brake should be pulled and the spread of the coronavirus should be contained.
However, if it were up to the epidemiologist at the Braunschweig Helmholtz Institute, Gérard Krause, the number of people suffering from Covid could be more relevant than the number of those infected with corona.
"Because of the increase in test activity, which is desirable, and also the increase in vaccinations, which is also desired, we will continue to see many infections, but hopefully significantly fewer diseases," said Krause on Monday in the ZDF "Morgenmagazin". In particular, the admission of Covid patients to intensive care units "reflects the dynamics of the pandemic very promptly and very well".
An additional effect of the planned exit restrictions is not very big, stressed Krause further. "Especially from France there are corresponding observations that people visit each other before the curfew and possibly spend the whole night together in improvised, narrowed rooms." One should not hope for too great an additional effect from curfews.
The epidemiologist doesn't think much of a weakening of the vaccination prioritization.
"We still know far too many people who are very old or have health risk factors who would like to be vaccinated but have not yet received a vaccination," said Krause.
These people should continue to have the right of way.
Corona in Germany: Police dissolve barbecue party with 70 guests
Update from April 19, 2.30 p.m.:
Large gatherings of people have not been present in everyday life for over a year, even small meetings are not recommended due to the rapidly spreading corona pandemic. However, a total of 70 guests had now rebelled against exactly these Corona measures, they celebrated a private barbecue. As the police explained on Monday, officials were called in Gelsenkirchen on Sunday afternoon, where, despite the corona pandemic, they found around 70 people in an apartment and in a backyard.
They sat close together and partied without masks.
As the police announced on Monday, the officers raised a security deposit from a 20-year-old without a permanent residence and issued him a dismissal.
Other party guests received reports for violating the Infection Protection Act.
Corona in Germany: RKI President Lothar Wieler agrees to live permanently with Corona
Update from April 19, 1.30 p.m.:
The corona virus has been influencing the lives of people in Germany and the world for over a year, and a life without the virus probably seems unthinkable in the future.
In the opinion of the President of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, humanity even has to prepare for a long-term life with Corona.
"A virus that can infect a lot of animal species cannot be eradicated," said Wieler on Monday on the occasion of the 127th congress of the German Society for Internal Medicine in Stuttgart. In general, animal husbandry and animal trade have to be brought under control, said the veterinarian with a view to the spread of diseases. The illegal animal trade is a particular problem.
Wieler also warned of the consequences of climate change.
Damage such as heat stress, problems with psychosocial health and skin cancer are already increasing, he explained.
But diseases transmitted by animals such as mosquitoes and ticks would also become more common as a result of changed biotopes and less biodiversity.
He also expects problems if climate change makes the supply of drinking water more difficult.
Wieler also cited a reduced quality of bathing water as an example.
This leads to gastrointestinal problems, for example.
Corona in Germany: More and more people are vaccinated - More than five million people already have full protection
Update from April 19, 12.15 p.m.:
The vaccination strategy in Germany is currently running rather slowly, according to current reporting data in Germany so far 19.8 percent of the population has been vaccinated at least once. This emerges from the vaccination rate monitoring carried out by the Robert Koch Institute on April 19. That corresponds to about 16.4 million people. Another 5.5 million people would already have full vaccination protection.
The seven federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig Holstein, Saarland and Bremen have already reached the 20 percent mark for those who have received at least one vaccination.
The city-state of Bremen has the highest rate at 22.9 percent.
The doctors vaccinated less at the weekend than during the week.
On Saturday and Sunday they administered a total of 599,226 vaccinations.
Corona in Germany: RKI reports sad death rates - only one federal state below a critical mark
Original message
: Berlin - The corona virus * continues to spread, the discussions about the emergency brake continue.
While Chancellor Merkel and the Prime Ministers are still at odds over how to proceed, the corona virus is spreading steadily in Germany.
On Monday, the Robert Koch Institute published the current infection numbers *, while the death rate broke a sad mark.
Corona in Germany: RKI reports current figures - death rates crack sad mark
11,437 people have tested positive for the coronavirus * in the past 24 hours; on Monday a week ago, the RKI had recorded 13,245 new infections within one day. 92 people have died from or with a corona infection in the past 24 hours. Exactly one week ago, the RKI recorded 99 new deaths. This increases the number of deceased people infected with the coronavirus to 80,006.
However, the relatively low numbers should not yet indicate the all-clear for the pandemic, on Monday the numbers reported by the RKI are mostly lower.
Among other things, because there is less testing on the weekend, many circles also report no data at all on the days off.
The seven-day incidence, carefully observed by many experts and politicians, was 165.3 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants nationwide on Monday.
The day before, the RKI had given this incidence as 162.3.
Corona in Germany: 15 federal states with a critical value - only one federal state reports numbers in the green area
Thuringia and Saxony are particularly affected by the current infection rate. With an incidence of 246 and 237
new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, the two federal states are the sad front runners in Germany. Bavaria also has high numbers, with an incidence of 187 the state currently has the third highest number of cases nationwide. While 15 federal states exceed the critical value of 100 cases per 100,000, Schleswig-Holstein can look forward to surprisingly low values. As the RKI explained in its current report on Monday, the state is the only one that
falls below
the critical threshold with an incidence value of 72. *
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The Astrazeneca vaccine hit the headlines with rare but serious side effects.
An Oxford study claimed that BioNTech and Moderna vaccines also have an increased risk of thrombosis.
Now Biontech expresses itself *.
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