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Corona in Lower Saxony: 2G-Plus rule applies throughout the country from Friday

2021-12-16T11:52:43.765Z


Corona in Lower Saxony: 2G-Plus rule applies throughout the country from Friday Created: 12/16/2021, 12:35 PM From: Johannes Nuss Because the corona situation in the hospitals in Lower Saxony continues to escalate, warning level 2 will apply nationwide from Friday and thus the 2G-Plus rule everywhere. Hanover - So far, it does not affect all districts and independent cities in Lower Saxony, bu


Corona in Lower Saxony: 2G-Plus rule applies throughout the country from Friday

Created: 12/16/2021, 12:35 PM

From: Johannes Nuss

Because the corona situation in the hospitals in Lower Saxony continues to escalate, warning level 2 will apply nationwide from Friday and thus the 2G-Plus rule everywhere.

Hanover - So far, it does not affect all districts and independent cities in Lower Saxony, but due to the location in the hospitals, warning level 2 of the Lower Saxony Corona Ordinance will apply nationwide from Friday, December 17, 2021.

Thus, the 2G Plus rule now applies in the entire state of Lower Saxony.

Over the Christmas holidays and New Year's Eve, warning level 3 even applies in Lower Saxony, for the so-called Christmas rest.

Federal state:

Lower Saxony

Surface:

47,709.82 km²

Resident:

8,003,421 (as of December 31, 2020)

Prime Minister:

Stephan Weil (SPD)

Shops for daily needs such as supermarkets or drugstores are exempt from the 2G Plus rule in Lower Saxony.

According to a ruling by the Lüneburg Higher Administrative Court, the rule does not apply to hairdressers as intended.

This means that people who have not been vaccinated can continue to use body-friendly services.

This was announced by the Ministry of Health in Hanover.

Corona in Lower Saxony: The situation in hospitals and intensive care units is increasingly escalating

The declaration of warning level 2 for the entire federal state justifies the policy as follows, since on Wednesday, December 15, 2021, both the headline indicator "hospitalization" and the indicator "intensive care bed utilization" were above the threshold value specified in the ordinance for the fifth day in a row .

On Wednesday the value of the leading indicator hospitalization was 6.4 (threshold value for warning level 2: 6.0).

This indicates how many people with a corona infection are admitted to a hospital within a week, calculated down to 100,000 inhabitants.

In addition, 10.5 percent of the intensive care beds are currently occupied by Covid 19 patients (threshold value for warning level 2: 10 percent).

The state government will announce the current figures for Thursday, December 16, 2021 in the course of the morning.

The 2G plus rule has been in effect in many places in Lower Saxony since the beginning of December.

Because the hospitals are getting fuller with Covid-19 patients and more and more people are dying, the rule now applies to warning level 2 in every district and urban district in Lower Saxony.

(Symbol picture) © Sina Schuldt / dpa

The 7-day incidence, with which the number of new infections with the coronavirus is extrapolated to 100,000 residents within 7 days, rose slightly on Thursday after a few days of relaxation in Lower Saxony.

It is currently 179.2 (previous day: 178.6), with 3308 new Covid 19 infections, however, there are significantly more new infections than on Wednesday (2684).

In connection with the corona virus, 17 new deaths were reported to the authorities on Thursday morning (previous day: 22).

Corona in Lower Saxony: Omikron could be the dominant variant in Lower Saxony from January

The numbers, even if they have only increased slightly, are already ringing the alarm bells, because experts believe that the Omikron variant of the corona virus is on the rise in Germany.

Omikron could already be the dominant variant of the coronavirus in January * and thus completely replace the delta variant.

Since the variant discovered in South Africa is said to be more contagious than Delta, the focus is currently shifting back to the vaccination campaign, which threatens to stall around the New Year.

Because after an inventory by the new Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) it is now clear that there will not be enough vaccine for the first quarter *. In a hasty action, the Federal Ministry of Health is now trying to find a solution and wants to buy more vaccine *. Because you only seem to be protected against a severe course of Omikron if you have received a so-called booster vaccination - i.e. a third vaccination or a booster vaccination. The states of Lower Saxony and Bremen were already struggling with a lack of vaccines at the end of November.

Currently, 25.2 percent of the population in Lower Saxony is boosted and thus protected against a difficult course with the Omikron variant.

In Lower Saxony, 71.3 percent had already received a second vaccination against the coronavirus by Thursday, December 16, 2021, and 74.6 percent had already received the first vaccination against an infection with Covid-19.

* Kreiszeitung.de, merkur.de and fr.de are offers from IPPEN.MEDIA.

Source: merkur

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