Lower Saxony still has the corona situation firmly under control.
Economics Minister Althusmann wants to declare a disaster, but Prime Minister Weil does not.
Update from November 26, 2021, 1:23 p.m.:
The declaration of a disaster for Lower Saxony, demanded by Economics Minister Bernd Althusmann (CDU), is apparently off the table again.
The proposal met with a lack of understanding, as it is said, in the State Chancellery of Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) * in Hanover.
State: | Lower Saxony |
Area: | 47,709.82 km² |
Resident: | 8,003,421 (as of December 31, 2020) |
State capital: | Hanover |
Prime Minister: | Stephan Weil (SPD) |
"What the disaster can actually do to improve the corona situation or to combat the acute increase in infection is not clear to us," said a spokeswoman for the state chancellery on Friday.
In response to Althusmann's reference to Bavaria, where the disaster has been in effect for around 14 days, Weil's spokeswoman said that Bavaria is not the country "that is exemplary for us in combating the corona pandemic".
New record incidence in Lower Saxony: Althusmann wants to declare a corona disaster
First report from November 26, 2021, 9:52 a.m .:
Hanover * - Sad record incidence in terms of Covid-19 in Lower Saxony *: For the first time since the start of the corona pandemic in March 2020, the 7-day incidence in Lower Saxony * has the Crossed the 200 mark and climbed to 201.2 (previous day: 195.1) on Friday morning, November 26, 2021 (as of 8:30 a.m.). This corresponds to 3415 new infections within 24 hours. The situation is getting worse and worse, so that Economics Minister Bernd Althusmann (CDU) is now calling for a disaster to be declared, just as it happened in Bavaria around two weeks ago *.
There are also more and more deaths in Lower Saxony, as the RKI announced on its dashboard on Friday morning.
11 new coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded.
In the intensive care units in Lower Saxony, 8.6 percent of the maximum available beds were occupied by Covid 19 patients on Thursday, the hospitalization incidence was 6.6.
The state government will announce the figures for Friday in the course of the morning.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 6,304 people have died in connection with the virus.
To date, the Lower Saxony authorities have registered 366,887 deaths.
In the neighboring state of Bremen *, the incidence on Friday was 219.4 after 190.4 the previous day.
This corresponds to 385 new infections, there are no further deaths in the smallest federal state.
New record incidence in Germany: 76,414 new infections and 357 corona deaths
Across Germany, the number of infections with Covid-19 continued to rise on Friday morning.
For the whole of Germany, the RKI reported 76,414 new infections with the coronavirus, there are 357 deaths in connection with a Covid-19 infection.
Thus, the 7-day incidence continues to climb high in Germany and is now 438.2 (previous day: 419.7).
Since the beginning of the corona pandemic, around 5.6 million people in Germany have been infected with the virus, and more than 100,000 people have already died.
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Lower Saxony's Economics Minister Bernd Althusmann wants to declare a disaster in the corona pandemic.
(Kreiszeitung.de-Montage)
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The situation in Lower Saxony and Germany is therefore worsening day by day.
It raises questions as to why the federal government is just now allowing the epidemic situation of national importance to expire.
In the course of this, Friday morning the Lower Saxony CDU boss Bernd Althusmann demanded that a disaster should be declared in Lower Saxony.
Economics Minister Althusmann wants to declare a disaster: authorities could act faster this way
"Since it is foreseeable that the situation will worsen, the state parliament should meet earlier than planned and possibly declare a disaster, as happened in Bavaria," said Althusmann of the "Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung".
In the event of a disaster, the authorities could act more quickly and do not have to wait for parliamentary proceedings.
The next regular session of the state parliament is not planned until December 13, 2021.
"We have to do something to give the municipalities legal security," emphasized Althusmann.
Vaccination centers should also be reopened in order to avoid long queues in front of the vaccination practices.
New record incidence in Lower Saxony: operations have already to be postponed
Lower Saxony's Minister of Health Daniele Behrens (SPD) also hit the same line and told the newspaper: "The Corona situation is extremely serious.
That applies to Lower Saxony and it applies all the more to many federal states in the south and east of the Federal Republic. ”The fact that Covid 19 patients are being relocated from these countries to the north speaks for itself.
In Lower Saxony, too, it will not be possible to avoid postponing some of the operations that are not medically necessary in order to create capacities for the treatment of Covid 19 patients, said Behrens.
The relevant preparations were already under way.
According to the social expert of the SPD parliamentary group, Uwe Schwarz, the health authorities are no longer following up with the follow-up.
"We are running into the disaster that we prevented in the first corona waves," he told the newspaper.
Lower Saxony CDU General Secretary Sebastian Lechner wants his own epidemic emergency
Even the CDU Secretary General Sebastian Lechner does not like the fact that the epidemic situation of national scope has expired.
He is now insisting on Lower Saxony going it alone, as he made clear.
"I am calling for a special session of the state parliament so that the state can quickly declare its own epidemic emergency for Lower Saxony," he told the political journal "Rundblick". So that “the exemption clauses can be applied again regardless of the changed legal situation at the federal level”, speed is now required. According to the report, the trigger was that, for example, meetings of municipal representatives could initially no longer be held in hybrid fashion, i.e. in presence and via video.
In Lower Saxony, according to the new Corona regulation, the corona warning levels * apply if the hospitalization incidence and at least one of the other two indicators (newly infected, intensive care bed occupancy) exceed certain thresholds.
Warning level 1 has been in force nationwide since Wednesday with a comprehensive 2G regulation *.
This means that unvaccinated people are excluded from parts of public life.
In the event of a further deterioration, the 2G-plus regulation could soon be imposed regionally with warning level 2 *, which also provides for a test requirement for vaccinated and convalescent people.
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