Corona in Germany: unknown people steal 15,000 rapid tests - state gives vaccinated people more freedom

The next federal state gives fully vaccinated people freedom from the weekend.

Around 15,000 rapid corona tests were stolen in Hesse.

The news ticker.

• Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania decides to relax fully vaccinated people.

  (see update from April 29th, 2.35 p.m.)

• 15,000 rapid corona tests were stolen in a city in Hesse.

  (see update from April 29th, 3:50 p.m.)

• Bundestag President Schäuble calls on MPs to be vaccinated.

  (see update from April 29, 4:45 p.m.)

• This news ticker on the subject of Corona in Germany is updated regularly.

Update from April 29, 4:45 p.m.:

Bundestag President Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) has called on the around 700 members of the German Bundestag to have a corona vaccination.

An appointment booking is now possible via a booking system of the Bundestag administration, he informed the MPs in a letter on Thursday.

He very much hoped that the vaccination offer could be an important step towards normalizing parliamentary work, because it is particularly dependent on personal contacts, wrote the President of the Bundestag.

"That is why I urgently ask you to accept the offer if you have not yet been vaccinated."

In the meantime, more than one in four people in Germany has received at least one primary vaccination.

This can be seen from the numbers on the RKI vaccination dashboard.

25.9 percent of the more than 80 million people in the country have already received the first vaccination dose, 7.5 percent have received full vaccination protection.

In addition, more than a million vaccine doses were inoculated in just one day for the first time on Wednesday.

This is a new daily record, as Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) announced at a press conference.

Corona in Germany: Unknown people steal around 15,000 rapid tests

Update from April 29, 3:50 p.m.:

In the Hessian city of Rüsselsheim there was a major theft by previously unknown perpetrators in the rooms of a company on Thursday night.

"The strangers first gained access to the premises of the company by prying open a door and then captured around 15,000 Covid-19 rapid tests, two larger boxes with FFP2 masks and several bottles of CBD oil," said the police in a message .

According to the investigators, this resulted in damage amounting to tens of thousands of euros.

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In Rüsselsheim, Hesse, strangers stole around 15,000 rapid corona tests.

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Corona in Germany: The next federal state gives vaccinated people more freedom

Update from April 29, 2:35 p.m.:

The state government in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania has decided that residents who have been fully vaccinated against the

corona virus

for at least two weeks will have more freedom again from next weekend.

This was announced by Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) after a special cabinet meeting on Thursday.

This allows vaccinated people in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania to go to the hairdresser, the zoo or the hardware store without a negative rapid test, for example.

In Bavaria, fully vaccinated people are also on an equal footing with those who tested negative, as the cabinet announced this week.

"Next week we will bring the equality of those who have recovered on the way," announced Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) on Thursday in Munich.

Corona in Germany: Spahn and Wieler provide information on the current situation

Update from April 29, 12.15 p.m

.: The Berlin intensive care nurse Ricardo Lange described scenes from his work in the intensive care unit.

And in the heated debates about the containment of the corona pandemic, he appeals not to lose sight of the suffering of people seriously ill with Covid-19, their relatives and carers.

Update from April 29, 11:45 a.m

.: The number of corona cases in children is increasing, said RKI boss Lothar Wieler.

If schools and daycare centers are open, if hygiene concepts are not observed, it is hardly surprising.

Wieler also warns of Long Covid * - even among younger people.

According to the current data, 10 percent of those infected are affected by Long Covid.

Update from April 29, 11.35 a.m

.: RKI boss Lothar Wieler and Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) provide information about the current corona situation in Germany.

In view of the number of corona cases, Spahn is cautiously optimistic and does not want to speak of a trend yet.

Corona: Federal government knows nothing about the age of intensive care patients

Update from April 29, 9:52 a.m.:

The federal government is missing important information about the corona pandemic. Little is known about the age of corona patients in intensive care units. The Federal Ministry of Health announced this at the request of the FDP, as reported by the AFP news agency. Accordingly, the hospitals must transmit their treatment capacities and the number of discharged patients on a daily basis. "Data on the (average) age of Covid-19 patients with intensive medical treatment needs," but not included.

The answer to a request from FDP politician Judith Skudelny was available to AFP on Thursday.

It also states that there is consequently no information about the average age of the patients who died of the coronavirus in the intensive care units.

The answer goes on to say that the age has not yet been “considered necessary”.

Corona in Germany: RKI reports 24,736 new corona infections

Update from April 29,

6:23 a.m.: In Germany, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported 24,736 new corona infections and 264 further deaths within 24 hours.

This comes from the data on the RKI Covid 19 dashboard from Thursday morning.

The 7-day incidence has fallen further and is currently 154.9 (previous day: 160.6).

The 7-day incidence is highest in Thuringia at 215.4, followed by Saxony at 214.3.

Schleswig-Holstein has the lowest value according to the RKI with 67.2.

Corona in Germany: Indian mutation reported - Further cases in Cologne and BaWü

Update from April 28, 8:48 p.m.:

The Indian coronavirus mutant was also detected in Cologne for the first time. There are two cases, said the city administration. However, they are not the first in Germany, according to the Robert Koch Institute *, the variant has already been isolated previously. In the cathedral city, all positive tests for virus variants have been examined for three months. This is how those mutations from Great Britain, South Africa and Brazil were recognized. In Baden-Württemberg, too, the Indian variant B.1.617 was discovered in two people returning from the densely populated country.

According to the RKI, there are indications of an increased transferability of this form of mutation.

In addition, it is "associated with a reduced effectiveness of the immune response".

However, there is a lack of reliable knowledge to classify the variant as "worrying".

India itself has been struggling with a dramatic corona development for around a week.

Several factors * are decisive for the extreme second wave and could also be a warning for Germany.

Massive corona outbreak in vehicle factory - Mayor publishes urgent appeal

Update from April 28, 5:02 p.m

.: In a vehicle factory in

Lübenheen (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania) there has been a massive corona outbreak.

180 employees and people around the company have been infected with Corona.

The small town of Lübenheen (4900 inhabitants) is a corona hotspot.

“The British mutation variant is responsible for the rapid spread, which is why the majority of those infected show symptoms.

Within a very short time, the contact persons for control smears will also be positive, ”said medical officer Dr.

Ute Siering from the Ludwigslust-Parchim district on Tuesday.

Mayor Ute Lindenau (SPD) has asked residents to strictly adhere to the hygiene rules and contact restrictions in order to curb the spread of the corona virus, reports the dpa news agency.

On Wednesday, the district reported 204 new corona infections within one day.

80 of these can be traced back to the outbreak in the vehicle factory, according to the district.

The 7-day incidence jumped from 177.1 to 237.   

Corona in Germany: Söder and 24.7 percent of the population vaccinated

Update from April 28, 4:39 p.m

.: Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (54) was vaccinated against the corona virus with Biontech.

The CSU boss had already been vaccinated by his family doctor in Nuremberg last week, a spokeswoman for the state government said on Thursday at the request of the German Press Agency in Munich.

In Germany, 24.7 percent of the population have been vaccinated against corona at least once.

More than 6.1 million (7.4 percent) people are already fully vaccinated.

That comes from the vaccination dashboard data from the Ministry of Health.

On Tuesday (April 27), 718,124 vaccine doses were administered (previous day: 406,560).

Due to a technical problem, the updated vaccination data from some federal states were not available on Wednesday, the RKI announced in its report on vaccination rate monitoring.

Update from April 28th, 3 p.m

.: A vaccination turbo in Brandenburg should be ignited with a model project in doctor's offices.

Now pilot practices have to forego the 20,000 vaccine doses that have been promised this week.

The rbb reports and also appeals to the Brandenburg Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians.

Vaccines from Biontech / Pfizer and Moderna are therefore affected.

“Completely unexpected” - 20,000 vaccine doses are not available for medical practices in Brandenburg

According to the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, the delivery refusal comes “completely unexpectedly” from the country's vaccination department and was not coordinated.

It is initially unclear why the vaccination doses are not being delivered.

Corona in Germany: The city is now taking action when a mask is required in the car

Update from April 28, 2:08 p.m

.: From an incidence of 100, a mask is required in the car in some regions of Germany. The Bremerhaven police are now announcing controls throughout the city for Thursday (April 29). If you violate the mask requirement, you will have to pay a fine of 50 euros, the police warned. According to the general decree issued by the City of Bremerhaven on April 23, occupants in vehicles that do not belong to the driver's household are required to wear mouth and nose protection. An exception applies to couples, even if they do not live in the same apartment. According to the RKI, the weekly incidence in Bremerhaven is currently 152.2. On April 14th, the city of Bremerhaven passed the 200 mark.

Berlin, Hamburg, Saarland and Saxony also currently require a mask for passengers.

Anyone who violates the mask requirement in Saxony can expect a fine of up to 100 euros.

Breakdown in Swabia - vaccine diluted too much

Update from April 28, 12.42 p.m

.: Vaccination pan in Swabia!

In a Swabian vaccination center, corona vaccines were accidentally diluted too much, so that 42 citizens now have to be vaccinated again.

As a spokesman for the district office in Dillingen an der Donau said on Wednesday, routine follow-up checks revealed that in some cases there was not enough active ingredient in the syringes.

The operator of the vaccination center in Wertingen has now introduced additional security measures to rule out a similar incident in the future.

First, the

Augsburger Allgemeine

reported on the case.

Corona - NRW-Stadt wants to vaccinate districts with a high incidence first

Update from April 28, 11:54 a.m

.: The city of Cologne wants to vaccinate districts with a high incidence preferentially. This is reported by Deutschlandfunk (Dlf) online. However, this would require special approval from the state government. In Cologne - as in other large cities - there are enormous differences in the corona numbers depending on the districts. Two RKI studies clearly show a connection between social status and the coronavirus, as

Merkur.de

* reports.

NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet spoke out in favor of mobile vaccination teams in the state parliament on Wednesday.

The CDU chairman said that where people lived in cramped living conditions, the risk of being infected was greater than in a spacious single-family home.

Therefore, a focus must now be set on vaccination, where people live closer together than elsewhere.

Vaccination sequence - survey shows clear trend

Update from April 28, 11

a.m .: Adhere to or cancel the vaccination sequence?

A majority in Germany is in favor of the planned lifting of vaccination prioritization in June, according to a survey by the opinion research institute YouGov.

According to this, 72 of the respondents were in favor, only 13 percent rejected this “somewhat” or “completely”.

15 percent did not provide any information.

For the representative survey, 1449 people in Germany aged 18 and over were interviewed on April 27th.

Corona in Germany: Lauterbach warns of too great a hope for herd immunity

Update from April 28, 10:04 a.m

.: SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach has warned against relying too much on herd immunity in the corona pandemic. “Assuming herd immunity is 70 percent. The layman then often thinks that if 70 percent get vaccinated, the rest can no longer become infected. But that's wrong, ”Lauterbach told the

world

.

"The pandemic will not spare individuals, you will either get sick or be vaccinated," said Lauterbach.

A lifting of the measures is only possible with a high vaccination coverage of the population.

"If everyone is offered a vaccination, it doesn't mean that the bars can be as open as they were before the pandemic," he said.

"I expect that people will have to show vaccination certificates or antigen tests, at least in locations where the risk is very high."

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Karl Lauterbach warns against too high hopes for herd immunity (symbol photo).

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Corona in Germany: RKI reports 22,231 new corona infections

Update from April 28, 6:16 a.m.:

The RKI reported 22,231 new infections with the corona virus in Germany on Wednesday morning.

In addition, 312 new deaths were recorded within one day.

This means that both values ​​have fallen compared to the numbers from a week ago.

As of April 21, the reported number of new infections was 24,884 and the number of reported deaths was 331.

The seven-day incidence has also made a significant drop in Germany.

According to the RKI, the value is 160.6.

(Previous day: 167.6).

Hundreds of PCR tests burned in an accident on the highway

Update from April 27, 9:50 p.m.:

500 people from the entire Ruhr area and the northern Lower Rhine will have to do a new corona test. On Monday there was an accident between a 24-year-old driver and a truck driver on the A57 motorway. The driver would have been seriously injured, but should be on the mend. In the course of the accident,

500 corona tests

were also burned, according to the

picture

. Their evaluation had apparently not yet taken place.

An accident vehicle belonged to the fleet of the test center operator Medican and was on the way to Düsseldorf to the laboratory.

Oguzhan Can from Medican confirmed to

Bild

: "After the accident, we immediately contacted all test persons whose samples were affected by telephone and asked them to repeat the process." The company would bear the costs.

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500 Medican corona tests have to be carried out again due to an accident.

© Christoph Hardt via www.imago-images.de

Sharper federal emergency brake?

Baden-Württemberg is thinking about a tougher curfew - Saarland model ticked off

First report from April 27th, 5 p.m .:

Munich - The nationwide emergency brake * has been in

effect

since April 24th, which stipulates tougher measures against the coronavirus as soon as the seven-day incidence * per 100,000 inhabitants within a district over 100 on three consecutive days lies. However, there is still no improvement in the numbers in sight. According to the Robert Koch Institute *, the incidence in Baden-Württemberg was just under 200, and new infections have risen constantly in the past few days.

If there is no indication of an improvement in the situation on Wednesday either, it is conceivable, according to Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann of the Greens, "that the exit restrictions will be tightened." It may be necessary to examine whether the emergency brake measures in general should be strengthened.

"We are still fully in the Corona crisis".

Only in the summer can one hope to get the upper hand over the pandemic.

It is also conceivable to further lower the limit for school closings, which is currently 165.

Corona in Saarland: model project can no longer be implemented for the time being

In Saarland, the emergency brake has been in effect throughout the country since Thursday. As the last district, the Saarpfalz district had to bow to the measures. For the Saarland model project, which only started on April 6, this means the premature end. The model was based on the idea of ​​using negative corona tests * as an opportunity for openings. For example, guarantors could visit cinemas and gyms if they had a negative test.

On Tuesday, the Saarland incidence rose slightly from 144.4 compared to Monday (142.9).

Among other things, the yellow Corona traffic light * had provided for an extended test obligation in retail.

Now it is probably on red for the time being. Among other things, the outdoor catering will be closed again and there will be night exit restrictions from 10:00 pm to 5:00 am.

In addition, meetings are limited to one household and only one additional person.

Corona in Baden-Württemberg: are numbers decisive on Wednesday?

If Kretschmann has its way, this could soon no longer be relevant in Baden-Württemberg.

For example, it is allowed to go jogging alone until midnight.

This could be deleted.

It is also possible to apply the block from 9 p.m.

The numbers on Wednesday could be of particular importance for the people in Baden-Württemberg.

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