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Düsseldorf: Omikron cases almost tripled in one week - over 1000

2022-01-04T11:49:09.550Z


Düsseldorf: Omikron cases almost tripled in one week - over 1000 Created: 01/04/2022, 12:40 PM By: Benjamin Stroka Düsseldorf currently has the highest corona incidence in all of North Rhine-Westphalia (symbol image). © Roberto Pfeil / dpa The number of Omikron cases in Düsseldorf has almost tripled within a week. On Tuesday, the city reported over 1000 cases with the corona variant. Düsseldo


Düsseldorf: Omikron cases almost tripled in one week - over 1000

Created: 01/04/2022, 12:40 PM

By: Benjamin Stroka

Düsseldorf currently has the highest corona incidence in all of North Rhine-Westphalia (symbol image).

© Roberto Pfeil / dpa

The number of Omikron cases in Düsseldorf has almost tripled within a week.

On Tuesday, the city reported over 1000 cases with the corona variant.

Düsseldorf - The highly contagious Omikron variant of the corona virus is on the rise in Düsseldorf.

In the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, more than 1000 corona cases of the virus mutation had already been detected by Tuesday (January 4, 2022).

A week ago it was around 350.

Düsseldorf: Corona variant Omikron - the number of cases increases sharply

As a spokeswoman for the city announced, there are now 1015 Omikron cases in Düsseldorf.

150 of them have already been confirmed by whole genome sequencing.

"For the remaining 865 cases, a positive typing PCR has so far been available, and sequencing has been initiated," the spokeswoman continues.

The follow-up of contact persons is carried out closely.

"All infected people and the close contacts are in quarantine and are regularly tested."

Sequencing

Especially in connection with the Omikron variant, many positive corona samples are currently being examined more closely with so-called sequencing in Germany.

In this way, the positive samples are examined genetically, as it were.

In this way, laboratories can break down the genome of the virus - and thus determine exactly which virus mutation is involved.

The process is very complex, so that in many cases only positive tests of suspected Omikron cases are sequenced.

According to the Robert Koch Institute, there are 10,779 Omikron cases in all of North Rhine-Westphalia on Tuesday, 904 of which were detected by sequencing.

This means that almost a tenth of all Omikron infections in North Rhine-Westphalia would come from Düsseldorf.

At the same time, the city currently has the highest incidence value in the whole of North Rhine-Westphalia with 354.1, followed by Wuppertal (352.4).

Omicron variant: more cases, but milder courses?

On the other hand, there is hope that several experts are now optimistic about the milder course of Omicron infections.

Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach tweeted about a study from South Africa on December 30th: “Very interesting study on Omikron in SA in @TheLancet.

Shows that while Omikron spread 4 times as fast as Delta, it caused significantly less severe cases.

Nevertheless, the data do not allow any clear conclusions to be drawn about older people who have not been vaccinated. ”

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Source: merkur

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