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Omikron: A district is suddenly the corona hotspot in Lower Saxony

2021-12-20T21:12:14.931Z


Omikron: A district is suddenly the corona hotspot in Lower Saxony Created: 12/20/2021, 10:07 PM The corona incidence in the district of Verden since March 10, 2020. © Kreiszeitung Within a few days, the corona incidence in the Verden district in Lower Saxony rises to 350. One of the main causes is the Omikron variant. Verden / Achim - The corona situation in the Verden district has worsened c


Omikron: A district is suddenly the corona hotspot in Lower Saxony

Created: 12/20/2021, 10:07 PM

The corona incidence in the district of Verden since March 10, 2020. © Kreiszeitung

Within a few days, the corona incidence in the Verden district in Lower Saxony rises to 350. One of the main causes is the Omikron variant.

Verden / Achim - The corona situation in the Verden district has worsened considerably.

Over the weekend alone, 198 new positive cases were reported to the health department.

In terms of incidence, the area between Ottersberg and Dörverden is now number one in Lower Saxony.

The value had increased by around 25 on Monday compared to Sunday, so that the corona incidence from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) was given as 350.4.

Omikron: District in Lower Saxony suddenly corona hotspot - Weil welcomes possible new measures with contact restrictions and partial lockdown

In view of the situation, it is perhaps only good that Prime Minister Stephan Weil welcomes the Corona summit around the Omikron situation and the possible resolutions that should include stricter contact restrictions and a partial lockdown.

According to a press release, the district of Verden is now threatened with the highest of the three warning levels, combined with further cuts and restrictions that the policy in Hanover around Weil has already announced for the Christmas rest period.

"Omikron has arrived in the Verden district": The seven-day incidence in Lower Saxony's district has skyrocketed since December 9th

In the past few days, the seven-day incidence in the Verden district has skyrocketed.

The 200 mark was exceeded on December 9, and the incidence values ​​have already exceeded 300 since last Friday. One of the causes, according to medical officer Jutta Dreyer: "Omikron has arrived in the Verden district." The main reason for the explosive increase in the current number of cases.

In four cases in the district there is evidence of the Omikron variant.

Since the laboratories currently only break down five percent of the positive tests according to virus variant, it is not possible to determine the exact percentage, according to Dreyer.

The background is the complex analysis that takes a lot of time.

The Robert Koch Institute also only uses the five percent analysis and extrapolates the total numbers from this.

Corona hotspot in Lower Saxony: Contagion with the Omikron variant is extremely fast

In many cases, the health department is now asking the laboratories to re-determine the sequencing in order to get clarity.

However, this occasionally dragged on for days.

"Where there is a positive case, it is clear, even without direct laboratory evidence, that positive relatives or friends have the same variant," says Dreyer.

The first experiences with the Omikron variant would confirm what is already known about the media: the infection goes very quickly, even a brief, fleeting contact could be sufficient.

The current Corona hotspot in the Waldheim Foundation for the disabled in Cluvenhagen also accounts for a not inconsiderable proportion of the high number of cases.

A corona outbreak was reported there in the first week of December, in the course of which around 160 people had tested positive by last Friday.

In the meantime, the booster vaccinations have been completed at the facility.

In addition, the first positive cases could be released from quarantine on the basis of follow-up tests.

Corona in Lower Saxony: "Omikron variant will also establish itself in this country in a very short time"

"The Omikron variant, this is what the virologists say and the news from England and other countries is already showing, will also establish itself in this country in a very short time," says District Administrator Peter Bohlmann. It is all the more important, on the one hand, to continue the booster vaccinations at a high speed and, on the other hand, to exercise clear restraint in personal contacts, at meetings and at celebrations. "The longer we manage to delay the spread of the Omikron variant, the less stress is placed on our health system," said the district administrator.

Bohlmann goes on to explain that in a corona outbreak like the one at the Waldheim Foundation there would only have been a few more severe courses, which makes it clear how important vaccination is against the pandemic.

Everyone should try to make an appointment for the first, second and third vaccination.

The practices of the resident doctors are available for this.

And the offers of the district's vaccination stations - whether as an open vaccination at Dodenhof in Posthausen or as vaccination with an appointment in the container buildings at the Verden district building - were well received and continued.

Current corona vaccination quota in the district of Verden: Imposition of warning level 3 according to the Corona regulation in Lower Saxony

As of December 19, the resident doctors and the vaccination teams in the Verden district had carried out around 39,758 booster vaccinations. The vaccination rate is currently 68.87 percent.

With an incidence value of over 350 for the first time, the Verden district is also threatened with the imposition of warning level 3 in accordance with the Lower Saxony Corona Ordinance.

If the value of 350 is exceeded on five consecutive working days, further contact and access restrictions in the district come into force two days later, on Boxing Day at the earliest.

It remains to be seen whether the Novavax corona vaccine will be approved at the right time, but the corona vaccine, which is wrongly called the dead vaccine, could be another alternative for the vaccination campaign after the turn of the year - not only for vaccine skeptics, but also for the district of Verden .

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Source: merkur

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