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Corona in Germany: Steinmeier calls for contact restrictions

2021-11-28T07:11:51.748Z


The corona numbers are increasing rapidly in Germany. Contact restrictions are becoming more and more likely - also for vaccinated people. The news ticker.


The corona numbers are increasing rapidly in Germany.

Contact restrictions are becoming more and more likely - also for vaccinated people.

The news ticker.

  • 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 with the designation B.1.1.529 * was discovered in South Africa, it is called Omikron.

  • Markus Söder calls for a general compulsory vaccination, the Leopoldina advocates contact restrictions.

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Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has urged citizens in Germany to prevent a lockdown through voluntary contact restrictions. "It is important that we all act together now," wrote Steinmeier in a guest post for "Bild am Sonntag". “If we stick to the rules, let's reduce our contacts again. Let's do it so that schools and daycare centers don't close again, so that we don't have to shut down public life completely. "

Steinmeier also appealed again to people to get vaccinated against Corona: “We could be so much further!

This is a bitter but necessary realization.

We have the means to protect ourselves from a serious, even fatal course of the disease.

But still too few have made use of it.

Therefore I ask you again today: Get vaccinated and renew your vaccination protection in good time! "

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Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called on citizens in Germany to prevent a corona lockdown through voluntary contact restrictions.

(Archive image)

© David Inderlied / dpa

Lauterbach against football games with an audience because of Corona

Update from Sunday, 11/28/2021, 6:32 a.m.:

The SPD * health expert Karl Lauterbach * has spoken out against football games in a full stadium in view of the dramatic corona situation in Germany.

"I find it highly problematic what we see in football," he said of "Bild am Sonntag".

“People don't get infected in the stadium, but the journey and the celebrations after the game are the sources of infection.

Therefore, games in a full stadium are currently not acceptable. "

On Saturday, the Rhenish Bundesliga derby between 1. FC Köln and Borussia Mönchengladbach took place in front of 50,000 spectators.

The Cologne Health Department approved a corresponding application from the Cologne Club on Friday. 

Corona situation: severe restrictions for unvaccinated people possible

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The acting Federal Minister of Health Jens Spahn brought long restrictions for unvaccinated people into play in the corona pandemic. The CDU politician said he was fundamentally skeptical about a general mandatory vaccination. An alternative to be discussed is 2G for all areas of life, i.e. access only for those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered. There could be an announcement: "Prepare for it, 2G, vaccinated or recovered, and then have been boosted from a point x, applies at least the whole of 2022. If you somehow want to do more than visit your town hall or your supermarket, then you have to be vaccinated. ”That would be a pretty clear message.

That is an option that needs to be discussed.

“We all see what's going on in this country because eleven million adults have not yet been convinced.

And now everyone is suffering from it, ”said Spahn.

Germany is probably in the “hardest” and “most dramatic” time of this pandemic.

One only has to look to Saxony, Bavaria, Thuringia and Baden-Württemberg and to many clinics.

The wave will continue to go west.

The question is how high the wave will get.

“We have that in hand.

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A sign at the entrance of a shop indicates the 2G rule.

© Carsten Koall / dpa

The President of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler, said that there is a general compulsory vaccination, if you do not manage to vaccinate a large part of the population, this is "definitely an option" that you should then think about.

Germany is in an emergency situation.

The vaccination is the way out.

"In a crisis situation, you simply shouldn't rule anything out in principle."

Aggravated corona situation: Leopoldina recommends immediate contact restrictions

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The National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina recommends immediate comprehensive contact

restrictions in

view of the dynamic corona infection.

"From a medical and epidemiological point of view, it is immediately effective to significantly reduce the number of contacts for a few weeks from the beginning of the coming week," said a statement published on Saturday (November 27th, 2021).

"Due to the decreasing immunity, these measures would have to apply temporarily to vaccinated and convalescent people who have to receive a booster vaccination during this time."

In total, around 30 million third vaccinations should be possible by Christmas in addition to first and second vaccinations, according to the Leopoldina.

With a view to children and young people, the Leopoldina recommends early Christmas holidays and regular corona tests at least three times a week.

Teachers and pupils of all grades should wear masks during their entire stay in schools.

"A suspension of compulsory attendance and alternating classes at schools as well as the closing of daycare centers should be avoided as far as possible."

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More Covid 19 patients will be relocated to Lower Saxony: A helicopter with a corona patient landed in Hildesheim on Friday.

© Martin Dziadek / Imago

If the corona situation worsens: City Council for renewed contact restrictions

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."

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Avoid contacts in the corona pandemic: In Saxony, among other things, this hotel in Oberwiesenthal had to close again.

© Jan Woitas / dpa

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 is intended to 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.

New mutant Omikron 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 also 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.

On Friday, Söder got an idea of ​​the Corona situation 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, 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 taken by 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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List of rubric lists: © David Inderlied / dpa

Source: merkur

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