After a corona outbreak in a senior citizens' home in Schorfheide on Werbellinsee (Barnim) with eleven deaths, the Brandenburg state government has decided to make an extended test obligation for unvaccinated employees in nursing homes.
When the Corona Handling Ordinance was updated, the cabinet stipulated that in regions with a seven-day incidence, over 100 unvaccinated or unrecovered employees had to be tested every day, the State Chancellery announced on Tuesday.
Potsdam - This also applies to acute corona outbreaks, regardless of the incidence.
"Now we have to protect particularly vulnerable groups of people such as residents in nursing homes and the very old," said Health Minister Ursula Nonnemacher (Greens).
“You have a particularly high risk of serious and fatal disease processes.” That is why the obligation to test in the care sector is being expanded.
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Further slight increase in corona patients in clinics
The number of corona patients in hospitals in Brandenburg continues to increase slightly.
After 61 patients on Saturday, the Ministry of Health reported 62 people on Sunday who have to be treated in clinics for a Covid 19 disease.
22 of these patients are receiving intensive care, 21 of which have to be ventilated as of Saturday.
Further slight increase in corona patients in clinics
Corona incidence in North Rhine-Westphalia stagnates at 55.9
In North Rhine-Westphalia, the seven-day incidence of new corona infections has not changed compared to the previous day.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value on Friday as 55.9.
On Thursday, 55.9 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants were registered within a week - a week ago, however, the value was 61.2.
Corona incidence in North Rhine-Westphalia stagnates at 55.9
Corona incidence is rising again - 224 new infections
In Brandenburg, the number of corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants rose from 34.5 to 36.8 within a week (seven-day incidence).
The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday.
A week ago it was 37.4.
This means that Brandenburg is still well below the national average.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value for all of Germany on Thursday morning as 63.0.
Corona incidence is rising again - 224 new infections
In rural districts and urban districts with fewer than 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days, employees in care facilities and clinics will have to be tested three days a week instead of the previous two.
Deviating from this, with a special hygiene concept in hospitals, only two tests per week are possible.
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