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More than 140,000 new infections: Corona wave spills over clinics - first emergency rooms already closed

2022-07-06T07:24:37.290Z


More than 140,000 new infections: Corona wave spills over clinics - first emergency rooms already closed Created: 06/07/2022, 09:09 By: Jennifer Lanzinger Despite the warm temperatures, the RKI reports a sharp increase in corona numbers, and the incidence also remains high. Staff shortages are increasing concerns in clinics. Berlin – In the summer and the warm temperatures, many experts had pl


More than 140,000 new infections: Corona wave spills over clinics - first emergency rooms already closed

Created: 06/07/2022, 09:09

By: Jennifer Lanzinger

Despite the warm temperatures, the RKI reports a sharp increase in corona numbers, and the incidence also remains high.

Staff shortages are increasing concerns in clinics.

Berlin – In the summer and the warm temperatures, many experts had placed their hopes in the corona pandemic – for a significant relaxation and, above all, fewer measures.

While the situation had actually eased over the past few months, the incidence has recently started to pick up again.

Now the summer wave is even leading to significant staff shortages, and the first stations have to be temporarily closed.

Corona in Germany: Clinics are struggling with staff shortages

The increasing absence of clinic staff due to the corona summer wave is causing concern among hospitals and doctors.

"We have received reports from all federal states that individual wards and departments have to be deregistered due to a lack of staff," said the CEO of the German Hospital Society (DKG), Gerald Gaß, the

editorial network Germany

.

Even emergency rooms are affected, and at times these are also reported to rescue control centers.

"This situation worries us greatly in view of the upcoming autumn."

Corona incidence increases significantly again - RKI reports more than 140,000 new infections

Despite the summer temperatures, the number of infections is not as low as many might have hoped at the beginning of the summer.

On Tuesday, the Robert Koch Institute reported 147,489 new corona infections, in the previous week the value was also relatively high with 142,329 new infections in one day.

The incidence also remains at a high level, on Tuesday the RKI put the value at 687.7, the day before the incidence was 650.7.

How many people are currently actually infected with the corona virus should remain a mystery.

Experts estimate the actual number to be about twice as high because many infected people no longer do a PCR test and are therefore not recorded.

The reason for this should also be Karl Lauterbach's test turnaround.

The scientific head of the intensive care bed register, Christian Karagiannidis, told the

Rheinische Post

on Tuesday: "The intensive care occupancy is only increasing moderately, but the occupancy for a summer is relatively high, and the available beds are becoming fewer and fewer due to the lack of staff." is now the time to use to optimally distribute capacities.

“This includes regional networks for the best possible distribution of patients according to the level of care.

Cooperation, but also relief for the staff, will be the order of the day this autumn and winter," said Karagiannidis, who also sits on the Federal Government's Expert Council.

Corona numbers are increasing rapidly: experts are already calling for the return of the first measures

Green health expert Janosch Dahmen called for masks to be worn indoors in view of the increased number of infections.

The fact that this is often not the case makes it “super easy” for the virus, said Dahmen in the

ARD morning program

on Tuesday.

Dahmen also called for a campaign in the summer for second booster vaccinations.

These should not only be carried out in people over 70 years of age, but also across the board in people over 60 years of age and with previous illnesses.

It should also be checked whether all adults should not receive this fourth vaccination in order to be better protected with "fresh vaccination protection" in autumn than in previous years.

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The head of the GEW education union, Maike Finnern, called for a legal basis for mask and test requirements in order to avoid school closures in autumn.

“This includes the possibility of a mask requirement if the number of infections continues to rise sharply.

But this also includes the possibility of reintroducing regular tests in educational institutions in the event of high 7-day incidences," she told

RND

.

Everything must be done to prevent schools and daycare centers from closing again.

The chairman of the Education and Training Association (VBE), Udo Beckmann, expects individual learning groups or schools to be closed again if the infection rate is high, as he

told the

RND .

Beckmann therefore called for all schools to be digitally equipped in such a way that students can be reached digitally even if distance learning is necessary.

In addition, a new corona mutation could further drive the infection process.

A new Omikron variant BA.2.75 has appeared - also in Germany.

A British virologist describes this discovery as "alarming".

Source: merkur

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