Corona alarm in Germany: Spahn shoots at country alone and calls for "nationwide" 2G

The corona numbers in Germany continue to rise drastically, on Wednesday the RKI reported another record.

An intensive care doctor now paints a bleak picture for two federal states.

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• The corona values ​​in Germany reached a new record on Wednesday, November 10th (see original message).

• An intensive care doctor is now painting a bleak picture for two federal states (see original report).

• Federal Health Minister Spahn is calling for a nationwide approach (see update from November 10th, 12.30 p.m.).

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Update from November 10th, 2.30 p.m.:

In Germany, 312,000 doses were administered on Tuesday, as many vaccinations as there had not been since August.

Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn announced on Wednesday via Twitter.

More than three million people have received a booster vaccination so far.

"The direction is right, but not enough to break the dynamic," said Spahn.

At least 67.3 percent of the population (55.9 million people) are now fully vaccinated.

That emerges from the figures from the Robert Koch Institute on Wednesday.

69.8 percent (58.0 million people) received at least one dose of vaccine.

Corona numbers are increasing in Saxony and Thuringia - first Christmas markets canceled

Update from November 10, 2:20 p.m

.: The corona numbers continue to rise, especially Saxony and Thuringia are currently affected by high corona values ​​(see original message).

For fear of possibly stricter corona rules, there are already the first cancellations for Christmas markets in Saxony.

As

reported by

, Meerane and Lichtenstein in Saxony are said to have already canceled their Christmas markets.

The Dresden Striezelmarkt has already been set up, whether it can actually open on November 25 remains unclear for the time being.

A city spokesman for Chemnitz had confirmed to the newspaper that it was currently holding talks.

Accordingly, it is currently not yet clear whether the Chemnitz Christmas market could take place.

In Thuringia, too, there should already be the first cancellations due to corona.

The historic Christmas market on the Wartburg was canceled for this year.

Corona alarm in Germany: Spahn shoots at country alone and calls for "nationwide" 2G

Update from November 10th, 12.30 p.m.:

Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) has demanded a nationwide approach to the application of the 2G rule in the corona pandemic.

Uniformity in the question of 3G or 2G is needed, said Spahn on Wednesday in the “early start” of

.

"We will soon have 16 different regulations again, that does not in itself lead to more acceptance."

The acting minister raised the question of whether 2G should apply “nationwide throughout the federal government” in the leisure sector, for example.

The introduction of 2G or 3G rules has so far been a matter for the federal states.

Even the draft law of the traffic light parties, with which new regulations for the period after the epidemic situation of national scope are to be created, does not provide for any fundamental change.

Only for the workplace, the SPD and the Greens and FDP want to set the softer 3G rule nationwide in the future.

It stipulates that either a vaccination, recovery or test certificate must be presented.

With the 2G rule, there is no possibility of free testing.

Spahn spoke out in favor of convening a conference of prime ministers.

This would be “a strong signal to the citizens, the federal and state governments are working together, making it clear how serious the situation is”.

he said.

Corona incidence of the RKI rises to 232: intensive care physician only sees one rule as the solution

Original message from November 10, 2021:

Berlin - The Corona * pandemic is picking up speed again in Germany, and the Robert Koch Institute has been reporting a drastic increase in the number of infections for weeks.

Last week, the institute had reported a new corona high, but this Wednesday, November 10, 2021, more new corona * infections were reported than ever before.

RKI reports corona record: intensive care physician calls for 2G across the board

As the RKI reported on Wednesday, the nationwide seven-day incidence rose to 232.1. On Monday, the value of 201.1 had reached the highest level since the start of the pandemic in Germany. Last winter, the high on December 22nd was at a seven-day incidence of 197.6.

While the fourth corona wave is rolling over Germany, epidemiologist Hajo Zeeb urges more caution.

"It is urgently necessary that we return from relaxation mode to seriousness mode, unfortunately also all vaccinated people," said the expert from the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology in Bremen.

Since vaccinated and convalescent people could also become infected, in his opinion “2G plus test” should become the standard over the winter.

This would mean that only those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered have access to certain locations and have to be additionally tested.

Corona in Germany: will the first patients have to be moved soon?

According to intensive care physician Christian Karagiannidis, 2G should be introduced nationwide in the coming week at the latest. “That brought a lot in the European region, so we should implement it. We have to

react, ”said the President of the German Society for Internal Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DGIIN) to the Berlin

The situation in the intensive care units has been worsening for weeks.

It won't be long before the first corona intensive care patients have to be relocated from the severely affected federal states of Saxony and Thuringia because there is no more space there.

“I took another look at the curves today - they go up too steeply for me.

It won't go on for more than two or three weeks, ”says Karagiannidis.

Meanwhile, the Stiko provides a vaccine surprise.

After side effects were observed more and more after a vaccination with the vaccine from the manufacturer Moderna, the Stiko is now changing its recommendation for under 30-year-olds.

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