The number of intensive care beds occupied by Covid patients is at a high level in the southwest - and, according to the Ministry of Health, should continue to increase in the new week.
This could quickly lead to drastic restrictions for many unvaccinated people.
Stuttgart - In view of the increasingly worsening corona situation in Baden-Württemberg, the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health expects the so-called alert level to be declared shortly, which would entail drastic restrictions for many unvaccinated people in the country. With a view to current forecasts and model calculations of the University of Freiburg, it is assumed that the alarm level could possibly be called by the end of the week, "in any case" but in mid-November, said a ministry spokeswoman in Stuttgart on Sunday at the request of the German press agency with.
The so-called corona warning level currently applies in Baden-Württemberg, which already entails numerous restrictions for many unvaccinated people. Should the number of corona intensive care patients in the country rise to over 390 on two consecutive working days, the alert level would be reached as the next escalation threshold - then significantly more stringent measures would be taken.
In this case, the Corona Ordinance provides for the 2G rule nationwide in restaurants, museums, exhibitions and most other public events.
Many unvaccinated people would then no longer have the opportunity to take part in public life in many areas - because proof of current PCR or antigen tests is no longer sufficient in many cases after the alarm level has been declared.
That would also be the case in many areas at Christmas markets, for example.
Exceptions to the tough measures would apply to children and pregnant women as well as people who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons.
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The number of corona patients treated in intensive care units in the south-west broke the 300 mark on Thursday for the first time in a long time; according to the state health department, it was 323 on Sunday. The number of new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants in one week is also growing steadily, on Sunday it was 235.1.
State Health Minister Manne Lucha (Greens) said that the fourth wave was also rolling “with full force” in Baden-Württemberg, the intensive care units in the hospitals were filling up rapidly - “primarily with unvaccinated patients, but also more and more people over 60 Years with breakthrough vaccinations come to the hospital ”. One is "highly alarmed". Lucha renewed his call for compulsory vaccinations for certain professional groups, especially in the care sector. "I will not get tired of continuing to campaign for it nationwide."
Criticism came from the FDP.
“Minister Lucha should finally stop threatening to be vaccinated all the time.
When you know that there are more and more vaccination breakthroughs with hospital admissions and that vaccinated people could also transmit the virus, then it is high time to get into intelligent corona test management, "said parliamentary group leader Hans-Ulrich Rülke.
After a pandemic for over a year and a half, it seemed “helpless and unimaginative when nothing more than a debate about mandatory vaccination” came up.
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