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Corona model mutates into a hotspot - but there is an explanation: Why Bremen does a lot of things right

2022-01-03T15:37:33.601Z


Corona model mutates into a hotspot - but there is an explanation: Why Bremen does a lot of things right Created: 01/03/2022, 4:25 PM From: Andreas Schmid Bremen Cathedral: The city in northern Germany currently has the highest corona incidence. © Sina Schuldt / picture alliance Bremen currently has the highest incidence in Germany. Is there so much going wrong in the north? In truth, the Hans


Corona model mutates into a hotspot - but there is an explanation: Why Bremen does a lot of things right

Created: 01/03/2022, 4:25 PM

From: Andreas Schmid

Bremen Cathedral: The city in northern Germany currently has the highest corona incidence.

© Sina Schuldt / picture alliance

Bremen currently has the highest incidence in Germany.

Is there so much going wrong in the north?

In truth, the Hanseatic city is one step ahead of the rest of the country.

Bremen - In the smallest German state in terms of population, the corona numbers are currently highest.

Bremen surprisingly has the highest seven-day incidence in the country, and the Hanseatic city has long been considered a showcase for German pandemic control.

What is currently happening in the north?

Is Bremen suddenly doing everything wrong?

The dashboard of the Robert Koch Institute showed 418.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days for Bremen on Sunday evening (January 2).

This is the highest level since the pandemic began.

The national average is 222.7.

In addition, the intensive care beds in Bremen are used to 96 percent, nationwide the rate is 84 percent.

Corona model Bremen: Nowhere is the vaccination rate higher

So far, Bremen has always been cited as a positive example of fighting pandemics.

The Senate made up of the SPD, the Greens and the Left Party maneuvered the 680,000-strong city-state, which includes Bremen and Bremerhaven, largely calmly through the pandemic.

The number of infections was below the national average, and there were no major errors by the government around Mayor Andreas Bovenschulte (SPD).

There was nationwide recognition for the positive vaccination campaign in Bremen.

Nowhere are more people vaccinated in percentage terms.

Bremen has the highest rate of people vaccinated once (87.1 percent) as well as people with double vaccinations (83.0).

Bremen: from corona model to hotspot?

Appearances are deceptive

But why are the numbers of infections in Bremen so high? Is Bremen developing from a showcase location to a hotspot area? No, probably not. In Bremen, the virus simply has no public holidays. While almost all health authorities in Germany work less between Christmas and New Year, Bremen has increased its staff. "In the area of ​​contact tracking and reports to the RKI, we are adding more staff so that we are prepared for the wave that awaits us in January," said Jörn Moock, head of the Bremen health department, the broadcaster Radio Bremen. For example, the health department has doubled the number of employees for New Year's Eve and New Year's.

The Bremen strategy ensures “a constant test level over the Christmas holidays”.

The result: a “relatively clear picture” of the infection situation - which seems to be completely absent nationwide.

Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) recently assumed that “the actual incidence is currently probably two to three times as high as the incidence we are recording”.

In the video: Corona protests in Bremen

The traffic light coalition does not expect valid figures until the Corona summit on January 7th.

The Robert Koch Institute also announces that the current reporting figures "are fraught with great inaccuracies".

And Bremen?

"We were there over Christmas and are also there over the New Year," says Moock.

But because that does not apply to the rest of Germany, Bremen is now a corona hotspot.

In fact, the Hanseatic people seem to be a role model once again.

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Source: merkur

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