"Infection rate is declining with high dynamics": Virologist Streeck names the three big reasons

Created: 04/21/2022, 04:50

By: Martina Lippl, Kai Hartwig, Christoph Gschoßmann

After the Easter holidays, the Corona numbers increase.

The RKI reports almost 200,000 new infections.

The incidence is also increasing.

The news ticker for the corona pandemic in Germany.

• Mask requirement and 3G: Virologist Streeck currently sees little influence on the course of the corona pandemic

• Corona incidence: The value on Wednesday (April 20) was 688.3.

  According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the number of new infections increases to 198,583 after a significant decrease.

• Booster vaccination: Lower Saxony allows the fourth vaccination.

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Update, April 20, 8:41 p.m .:

The booster against the corona virus should be even more effective: According to a new study, Moderna’s combination booster should protect against omicron better than the previous booster vaccination.

Lower Saxony enables fourth vaccination

Update, April 20, 6:41 p.m .: Will

many Germans soon be vaccinated four times?

At least one federal state wants to make this possible for its residents: From the beginning of autumn, corona vaccinations are to be offered nationwide for everyone in Lower Saxony.

This was announced by the deputy head of the state government’s Corona crisis management team, Claudia Schröder, on Wednesday in Hanover.

The third vaccination was more than six months ago for most of them from autumn.

The aim of the fourth vaccination is to reduce the risk of infection again before winter.

The infrastructure with vaccinating doctors and mobile vaccination teams will therefore continue to be maintained.

New forms of antisemitism during the corona pandemic

Update from April 20, 5:26 p.m .:

According to the findings of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, new forms of anti-Semitism have emerged in the corona pandemic.

The situation report speaks of “coded anti-Semitism that embeds the pandemic in an ideological conspiracy argument”.

It is "frightening that anti-Semitic narratives can sometimes be connected to the middle of German society," said Thomas Haldenwang, President of the Authority, on the occasion of the situation report on anti-Semitism presented on Wednesday. 

It is about "a secret, world-controlling power using the pandemic as an instrument to implement its plan for a 'New World Order'".

The so-called QAnon conspiracy complex, which has a decidedly anti-Semitic core in parts, is known for this.

Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser (SPD) declared that it was "a shame for our country how much anti-Semitic hate speech and contempt for human beings are still being spread today".

It was “shameful how the genocide of European Jews was downplayed by some corona deniers who attach a yellow star to themselves”.

Hospitalization incidence in Germany at 3.71

Update from April 20, 12:21 p.m

.: The hospitalization incidence in Germany is currently 3.71.

The RKI announced this in its situation report on Wednesday.

On Tuesday the value was still 3.48.

However, the RKI estimates the actual incidence of hospitalization due to delayed reports to be significantly higher.

Mask requirement and 3G: Virologist Streeck currently sees little influence on the course of the corona pandemic

Update from April 20, 10:47 a.m

.: The omicron wave is ebbing away.

The RKI determined before Easter that the zenith has long been passed.

According to experts, the obligation to wear masks and 3G no longer have much of an impact on what is happening in the pandemic.

Seasonality has the greatest effect on “the spread of the virus,” says virologist Hendrik Streeck of the

newspaper.

"These include warmer temperatures, more UV radiation and the behavior of people who are drawn outside at the beginning of spring.

We are currently seeing that.”

Streeck is skeptical about the effectiveness of the corona measures.

Data would suggest that more than two out of three infections occur in private and few would use a mask there.

There are hardly any differences between the declared hotspots and the other federal states.

"Everywhere in Germany, the incidence of infection is declining at high speed."

Corona in Germany: Virologist Stöhr explains decline - "Virus finds less susceptible hosts"

Virologist Klaus Stöhr says in the

: "The effect of corona measures is drastically overestimated." The incidence of infection is currently declining sharply across Germany, "because many people have become infected and have thus acquired natural immunity.

The virus is simply less likely to find susceptible hosts.”

For the head of panel doctors Andreas Gassen, the falling corona numbers are also proof that the end of the measures will not have any negative consequences.

"Most of the people are able to act on their own responsibility."

Corona numbers are rising again!

RKI reports higher values ​​than in the previous week - incidence descent stopped

First report from April 20, 2022:

Berlin – The nationwide incidence has risen to 688.3 compared to the previous day (previous day: 669.9).

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) recorded 198,583 new corona infections and 348 deaths within one day.

That emerges from data from the Covid-19 dashboard on Wednesday morning.

According to experts, the actual corona numbers are likely to be much higher.

Because of the Easter holidays, there may also be an “increased under-recording” of cases in the reporting system, the RKI reports on its website.

This should be taken into account when interpreting the case numbers.

Incidentally, a week ago 176,303 new infections and 361 deaths were recorded.

Corona virus in Germany: RKI reports 198,583 new infections (April 20, 2022)

Corona incidence: hospitalization rate at 3.48

The RKI gave the number of Corona*-infected patients per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days on Tuesday as 3.48 (Thursday: 6.41).

Here, too, there are days with incomplete reports; this so-called hospitalization incidence is not updated on weekends and public holidays.

The value also includes many people with a positive corona test who have another main illness.

Corona: So many intensive care beds are occupied

1,769 Covid-19 patients are currently being treated in the intensive care units in Germany.

Of these, 691 must be artificially ventilated.

This emerges from the data of the DIVI intensive care register (as of April 20, 5:05 a.m.).

Here you can read the news ticker for the corona virus until April 19.