The corona numbers are increasing rapidly in Germany.
First prime ministers are planning a possible compulsory vaccination, contact restrictions are more likely.
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The Corona * situation in Germany is becoming more and more dramatic.
In view of the increasing number of infections *, numerous federal states are tightening their measures.
A new corona mutant called B.1.1.529 * was discovered in South Africa.
SPD * health expert Karl Lauterbach * calls for travel restrictions.
Markus Söder calls for a general compulsory vaccination.
Update from Saturday, November 27th, 2021, 7:19 a.m.:
The German Association of Cities considers tightening of measures to be inevitable in the fight against the pandemic.
"If the situation continues to get out of control, there is no way around renewed contact restrictions," said City Council President Markus Lewe of the German Press Agency in Berlin.
“We have to contain the corona pandemic again.
We can't wait for intensive care units across the country to be overcrowded.
Every day counts."
The cities feared that the dramatic Corona situation and the low vaccination rate would again lead to restrictions on freedom for vaccinated people.
"What people go through in the Corona hotspots is worse than anything we have experienced so far."
Corona situation: Federal government declares eight countries as virus variant areas
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Due to the spread of the new coronavirus variant B.1.1.529 in southern Africa, the federal government is drastically restricting entry from a total of eight countries in the region.
South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Mozambique, Eswatini, Malawi and Lesotho will be classified as virus variant areas from Sunday at midnight, as the Robert Koch Institute announced on Friday.
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The Bundeswehr air force has been involved in the transfer of corona intensive care
patients
within Germany for the first time since Friday.
An A310 MedEvac medical aircraft flew to Memmingen in Bavaria on Friday to bring six seriously ill people to North Rhine-Westphalia.
This should relieve the hospitals in regions particularly hard hit by Corona.
The plane with the intensive care patients landed at Münster / Osnabrück Airport in the early evening.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, the corona situation is nowhere near as bad as in Bavaria, one of the most severely affected federal states.
The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days is 274.2 in NRW, well below the national average (438.2).
According to Friday's figures, the country still has 362 intensive care beds with ventilation options available for very severe cases.
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Airbus A310 MRTT MedEvac of the Air Force.
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New mutant discovered - Söder calls for "federal emergency brake"
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Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder has asked the federal government to act quickly in view of the current corona crisis.
This was reported by the German Press Agency on Friday (November 26th, 2021).
"We need an effective national containment strategy," he said on Friday in Rosenheim.
What is needed is a “uniform federal emergency brake” and a faster conference of prime ministers.
In the best case scenario, a general compulsory vaccination should be introduced as early as January 1st.
In view of the new virus mutation from South Africa, an entry ban * from this country is also necessary.
Söder got an idea of the Corona situation on Friday together with Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (both CSU *) in the hotspot regions in southeast Bavaria.
In the morning they met with representatives from the city of Rosenheim and the surrounding districts.
Corona situation: New mutant keeps the world in suspense - Spahn announces travel restrictions
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A new Corona mutant from South Africa alarms the professional world.
The mutant with the designation B.1.1.529 is classified as very dangerous.
SPD health experts called for travel restrictions on Twitter to curb the spread.
Numerous experts in Germany and around the world have feared that the new Corona variant could be an even more contagious version of the pathogen.
CDU * Health Minister Jens Spahn * announced at a press conference with RKI boss Lothar Wieler that air traffic to and from South Africa would be restricted due to the new virus.
Corona news in Germany: Pressure on those who refuse to be vaccinated is increasing
Update from Friday, November 26th, 2021, 6:25 a.m.:
In view of the refusal to vaccinate in parts of the population, the Düsseldorf economics professor Justus Haucap pleads for voluntarily encouraging unvaccinated people to rethink their thinking with financial pressure. From an economic point of view, it makes good economic sense to include those who refuse to vaccinate in their Covid treatment costs, writes the professor of competitive economics at Düsseldorf's Heinrich Heine University in an article for the Rheinische Post published in Düsseldorf (Friday).
"If the decision for or against the vaccination is to remain a private matter, then the financial consequences should also be a private matter," explained Haucap.
After all, this principle is also known from other areas of life.
It is also conceivable to immediately charge a surcharge to health insurance for people who have not been vaccinated because of the much higher risk of infection.
Unfortunately, reaching into the wallet often works better than all appeals.
In this way, a general compulsory vaccination could also be avoided.
New corona measures: Söder pleads for early federal-state meetings
Initial report
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Munich / Berlin - Due to the increasing number of Corona * cases in many regions of Germany, the Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder * (CSU *) has spoken out in favor of bringing forward the federal-state summit planned for December 9, including possible changes to the Infection Protection Act to discuss. "Every opportunity to improve the current crisis situation must be used," said Söder, according to a report by the AFP news agency on Thursday in the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
For example, Söder criticized the new Infection Protection Act *, which the Bundestag passed with a majority of the traffic light parties last week: The regulations are "not appropriate to the current situation".
The Bavarian Prime Minister is also following the line of the Executive Chancellor Angela Merkel * (CDU *), who has already called for stricter measures on several occasions.
Aggravation of the corona situation: Söder for mandatory vaccinations and vaccinations in pharmacies
In order to advance the vaccination campaign, Söder is now also in favor of mandatory vaccination, which the executive Union Health Minister Jens Spahn * had dismissed as impracticable at a press conference a few weeks ago. According to Söder, only the obligation to “pacify society and bring us back to freedom as we knew it before Corona”. In order to speed up the vaccination campaign, Söder demands that pharmacists also be given permission to vaccinate.
In doing so, Söder is following the demands of several prime ministers who have made similar statements in the past few days.
The Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans (CDU) had already called for the Prime Minister's Conference planned for December to be brought forward.
The Hessian Prime Minister Volker Bouffier (CDU) and Reiner Haseloff (CDU) from Saxony-Anhalt also spoke out in favor of introducing mandatory vaccination.
Corona policy: State leaders call for an early federal-state round
If the meeting between the Chancellor and the heads of the federal states is brought forward, as requested by Söder, the Executive Chancellor Angela Merkel could be entrusted with the management of the body one last time before her designated successor Olaf Scholz * (SPD *) takes over government affairs.
He is expected to be sworn in as Federal Chancellor in the week after December 6th.
The parties are currently gradually announcing who should belong to Scholz's cabinet *.
(ska / acg / AFP / dpa)
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