The number of corona cases in Germany is falling.
Kretschmann probably offends many people with a clear statement on the subject of travel.
The news ticker.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany
: The corona situation is improving, the vaccinations give hope.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reports fewer new coronavirus infections, and the 7-day incidence continues to decrease
(update from May 4, 6:06 a.m.)
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Kretschmann dampens hope of traveling soon
(update from May 4, 11:07 a.m.)
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Fear of corona vaccinations: survey shows clear result
(update from May 4, 10:58 a.m.).
Saxony is adapting the corona rules - and is much stricter than Bavaria
(update from May 3, 8:15 p.m.)
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This
news ticker about the corona crisis in Germany
is updated regularly.
Update from May 4, 11:07 a.m
.: Baden-Württemberg's Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann (Greens) has dampened many people's hopes of traveling soon, despite the slight decrease in the number of corona infections.
“I don't see that at first.
The incidences would have to go down drastically before we can consider something, "said the Green politician.
Because of the mutants * that keep appearing, the situation is still uncertain.
It is too early to speak of a trend reversal because of the slightly falling numbers.
In addition, travel is one of the "very problematic things, because the virus is spread through travel" and it was only spread around the world through travel.
"Great caution is required."
Afraid of the corona vaccination?
Survey shows clear result
Update from May 4, 10:58 a.m
.: The vast majority of Germans have no concerns about being vaccinated against Covid-19.
83 percent are therefore not afraid or not at all afraid of the corona vaccination.
The uncertainty tends to decrease with age.
This was the result of a survey by the Techniker Krankenkasse.
For example, 90 percent of people aged 60 and over have little or no fear, while the proportion of 18 to 39-year-olds is slightly lower at 76 percent.
Of all those surveyed, only ten percent are more concerned, six percent feel specifically fear.
In March, 1,000 people took part in the Forsa Institute's survey.
Doctors want to investigate the "collateral effect" of corona measures
Update from May 4, 10:44 a.m
.: Medical President Klaus Reinhardt has called for a comprehensive scientific investigation of the health effects of the corona containment measures.
These "collateral effects" in the fight against the pandemic have long been underestimated, said the head of the German Medical Association at the digital Doctors' Day.
He referred, for example, to urgently needed treatments that had not been started and suspended early detection examinations.
Effects on children in particular require special consideration.
In addition to educational deficits at school, it is also about the fact that many children have experienced important development phases in social isolation.
Corona in Germany: RKI reports 7-day incidence
Update from May 4,
6:06 a.m.: The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reports 7,534 new coronavirus infections and 315 more deaths within one day.
That comes from the data on the Covid-19 dashboard Tuesday morning.
The 7-day incidence has fallen to 141.4 (previous day: 146.9).
For comparison: on Tuesday a week ago, the value was 10,976 and the 7-day incidence was 167.6.
According to the RKI management report from Monday evening, the nationwide 7-day R-value is below the critical value of 1 at 0.88 (previous day: 0.92).
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.
Update from May 3, 10:05 p.m.:
The number of corona infections in Germany continues to drop significantly.
At least that's what the news portal
ntv.de
reports
.
Accordingly, 8,404 new infections with the corona virus were registered in the Federal Republic of Germany this Monday.
On Monday there were 10,819 newly reported Covid cases.
In comparison, this would mean a decrease of 22.3 percent within a week.
ntv.de
refers to its own calculations.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) always publishes the official figures the following morning.
But: The signs are increasing that the Corona situation is improving noticeably nationwide, step by step.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Saxony has stricter corona rules than Bavaria
Update from May 3, 8:40 p.m.:
After Bavaria announced extensive openings in the Corona crisis this Monday, Saxony will adjust its emergency ordinance on Tuesday.
This applies regionally instead of the federal emergency brake if the 7-day incidence falls below 100.
In summary, it can be said that openings and loosening can only be expected in May if the number of Covid 19 cases falls really drastically.
Otherwise everything stays the same - namely closed.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Hardly any easing and openings in Saxony
As the
picture
(behind a payment barrier) reported on Monday evening, hotels, pensions and holiday apartments will remain closed until at least May 30th - and thus also over Whitsun.
This also applies to restaurants.
Exception: If the 7-day incidence is below 100 for 14 consecutive days, the outdoor catering in the respective city or district may open.
If the value is exceeded on only one day, the count is started again from the beginning.
Corona emergency ordinance in Saxony (source:
picture
):
Applies if the 7-day incidence regionally falls below 100.
Rules should apply up to and including May 30th.
Events:
Remain prohibited, leisure facilities such as fitness studios or indoor swimming pools are closed.
Retail:
With the exception of the “Click & Meet”, which is already regulated in the federal emergency brake, there is no relaxation.
The shops and stores need to stay for walk-in customers.
Hotels and tourism:
Must remain closed, loosening and openings are not planned for the time being.
Gastronomy:
May not open.
First exception: sales "to go".
Second exception: If the 7-day incidence is below 100 regionally for 14 days, outdoor dining is allowed to open again.
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Hardly hit by the corona pandemic: Saxony, here the state capital Dresden.
© IMAGO / Sylvio Dittrich
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: Karl Lauterbach gives hope
Update from May 3, 8:30 p.m
.: Corona expert Karl Lauterbach was often correct with gloomy assumptions about the Covid 19 pandemic.
Now he gives Germany hope.
The numbers will probably fall quickly, he told
Merkur.de
now.
The vaccinations would not yet have their full effect.
You can read what time frame the epidemiologist assumes under the link.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: The situation in intensive care units is easing somewhat
Update from May 3, 8:20 p.m.:
The situation in German intensive care units is easing somewhat in the corona pandemic.
According to the
Association of Intensive Care and Emergency Physicians (DIVI)
, the number of intensive care patients in Germany could fall within a week.
This is what the ZDF's “heute journal” reports.
The doctors would attribute the slowly improved initial situation to the progress of the vaccination campaign and the measures taken by the federal emergency brake, it said.
According to the
intensive care register
of DIVI and the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), as of Monday evening, 8:19 p.m., 5010 Covid-19 patients were in German intensive care units, 2940 of whom had to be invasively ventilated at this time.
Covid-19 patients in German intensive care units: |
5010 |
Corona patients invasively ventilated: |
2940 |
Currently occupied intensive care beds in Germany: |
20,672 |
Intensive care beds currently free: |
3140 |
Source: DIVI and RKI intensive registers, as of May 3, 8:19 p.m.
Coronavirus pandemic in Germany: More than 6.6 million people have received two vaccinations
Update from May 3, 4:05 p.m.:
In Germany, 28.2 percent of people have now received at least one corona vaccination.
That comes from the numbers of the vaccination dashboard from Monday.
Accordingly, 250,114 corona vaccinations were carried out on Sunday.
8 percent of the population, i.e. more than 6.6 million people, have now received full vaccination protection.
The vaccination campaign in Germany has picked up speed and vaccination in this country is even faster than in Great Britain or the USA. At least that's
what Spiegel
reports
, citing processed data from the Oxford University platform “Our World in Data”.
According to this, 0.78 vaccine doses per 100 inhabitants were vaccinated in Germany in the last seven days.
Only Qatar (0.93), Uruguay (0.95) and the front runner Hungary (1.3) showed a faster pace.
Great Britain (0.74) and the USA (0.72) have now fallen behind Germany.
However, this is also due to the fact that large parts of the population there have already received their corona vaccination.
In Great Britain, more than 50 percent of the population have already received a primary vaccination, in the United States it is around 44 percent.
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The corona vaccination rate in Germany continues to pick up speed - vaccinations are now faster than the USA and Great Britain.
(Symbol image)
© Bernd Weissbrod / dpa
Corona in Germany: Cologne starts vaccination in socially disadvantaged areas
Update from May 3, 1:25 p.m.:
The city of Cologne started the early corona vaccination of people in
socially disadvantaged areas
on Monday.
As a spokesman for the city announced, the residents of the Chorweiler district were initially offered a vaccination.
A so-called vaccination bus was parked in a central square in the high-rise estate.
At the beginning, 300 corona vaccination doses from the manufacturer Moderna would be available.
The Cologne pilot project provides for residents of socially disadvantaged areas with high numbers of infections to be preferably vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Mobile vaccination teams are to be used for this.
In the Cologne district of Chorweiler, the 7-day incidence was last at 543.4 and thus well above the average for the city of Cologne (188.8).
The mayor of Cologne Henriette Reker (independent) resisted criticism of the action.
"We just don't override the vaccination sequence," Reker
clarified
on Monday at
Phoenix
.
“We have succeeded in prioritizing group three for these people in the social rooms, and now it is group three's turn.
Since we vaccinate with a separate vaccine, nobody here misses a vaccination that they would otherwise have received. "
Corona in Germany: outbreak on asparagus farm - the entire district is now threatened with the emergency brake
Update from May 3, 11.55 a.m.:
After a corona outbreak on an asparagus and berry farm, people in the Lower Saxony district of Diepholz must be prepared for tougher corona rules. According to the numbers from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) from Monday morning, the 7-day incidence there is 132.7. This means that the critical mark of 100 has been exceeded on the third day in a row.
In this case, the district had announced that from Wednesday (May 5) additional measures of the nationwide Corona emergency brake and the requirements of the Corona Ordinance of the State of Lower Saxony should apply.
At the weekend, the Diepholz district announced that a series of tests on the asparagus and berry farm found 87 corona infections.
A total of 1011 people were tested.
A new series of tests is to take place in the affected company on Monday.
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After a corona outbreak on an asparagus farm in Lower Saxony, the entire district is now threatened with the emergency brake.
(Symbol image)
© Sascha Steinach / imago-images
From the point of view of intensive care physicians, the Federal Emergency Brake "was able to save many thousands of lives"
Update from May 3, 9:58 a.m.:
After the praise of SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach for the federal emergency brake
(see update from May 2, 10:30 p.m.)
, the intensive care physicians also draw an initial positive balance. "We are confident that the number of Covid-19 patients in the intensive care units will decrease - and that is directly related to the measures taken by the federal emergency brake, as well as the significant progress in vaccination," said DIVI President Gernot Marx the
Rheinische Post
.
The decline in infections in Germany will also be visible in the intensive care units in a week.
“We are convinced of that,” Marx continued.
“From our point of view, the federal emergency brake was able to save many thousands of lives,” assured the DIVI President.
At the moment, one could not speak of relaxation in the intensive care units.
A “plateau formation” has been observed in the number of corona patients of around 5,000 for a good week.
Nevertheless, Marx was confident: "We have justified hope that the combination of a federal emergency brake plus an ongoing vaccination campaign will allow us to cope with the pandemic in the next few months, so that the third wave was also the last big wave of Covid patients."
Corona in Germany: Super hotspot in Thuringia
Update from May 3, 8.28 a.m
.: An incidence of more than 500 - the Corona hotspot is according to RKI information in Thuringia.
The Saale-Orla district is currently particularly affected by Corona with a 7-day incidence of 574.0.
Two districts in Saxony follow: Central Saxony with 370.9 and the Erzgebirgskreis with 342.4.
The weekly value is lowest in the district of North Friesland (Schleswig-Holstein): 33.7.
Corona: RKI reports 9,610 new infections and 84 deaths
Update from May 3, 6.11 a.m
.: The number of corona cases in Germany is falling: The health authorities in Germany reported 9,160 new corona infections and 84 further deaths to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day.
The 7-day incidence on Monday morning is 146.9.
Experience has shown that the number of cases is lower on Monday because fewer tests are carried out on the weekend.
Late registrations are therefore still possible.
On Monday a week ago, the RKI recorded 11,907 new coronavirus infections and 60 deaths within one day.
Corona hope?
Lauterbach calls Merkel's emergency brake a “good overall package” - and gives a summer forecast
Update from May 2, 10:30 p.m.:
Karl Lauterbach sees Germany on the way out of the Corona crisis. “I assume that the number of cases will drop significantly from mid-May to the end of May. Then we can say we have defeated the third wave, ”emphasized the SPD health expert in a WDR interview. So far the wave has only broken. At the same time, the 58-year-old warned against carelessness, because: "You shouldn't overestimate the vaccination effect: less than 35 percent of 70 to 80-year-olds have been vaccinated so far."
In addition, we must look more closely at a different generation: “If the numbers among children and young people should increase in the next few weeks, the third wave could start again.
So we have to be very careful there. ”All in all, however, he is optimistic about the future:“ The summer will be good.
The Indian mutant will not endanger that. ”The new infection protection law with emergency brake, compulsory tests in schools and companies as well as night exit restrictions have played a large part in the positive development.
This means that Germany has “a good overall package at the start that should normally be enough to get the third wave under control”.
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The Indian mutant does not worry him: SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach predicts a relaxed summer.
© Kay Nietfeld / dpa
Corona crisis in Germany: Vaccines must be distributed between practices and centers as needed
Munich - Germany * is once again facing very decisive weeks in the Corona * pandemic.
In May it is about setting the course for a smooth return to a largely normal everyday life.
Of course, taking into account the novel coronavirus *, which may never be completely defeated, which has cost the lives of more than 80,000 people in this country.
Among other things, the decisive factor is the need-based distribution of the vaccine * to medical practices and centers so that the vaccine can be administered as quickly as possible and has to be disposed of as little as possible.
In addition, politicians must decide to what extent a rigid adherence to the sequence of vaccinations * remains sensible and timely in view of the increasing number of drugs delivered.
Corona crisis in Germany: Question about the return of basic rights to vaccinated and convalescent people
Above all, there is also the question of which basic rights vaccinated and recovered people - possibly also those who tested negative - are granted again. Behind this should also be the hope that because of the Corona measures *, idle industries such as the hotel and catering industry but also the retail trade will be given a perspective that has been hoped for here for so long. On the other hand, the political decision-makers apparently fear a debate about envy, if in spring and possibly also early summer millions of Germans have to witness how some compatriots enjoy a new freedom that remains closed to them through no fault of their own.
These debates are now being conducted in Angela Merkel's cabinet, but also in parliaments.
In view of the stagnating or even falling incidence values in many cities and districts of the Federal Republic as well as an R-value * of less than 1 - infected people infect less than one other person on average - it is high time to do so.
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