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A new version of the Corona warning app appears today
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Medical president calls for restart of the vaccination campaign
04.34 a.m.:
Medical President Klaus Reinhardt speaks out in favor of restarting the corona vaccination campaign.
"The vaccination rate is too low in all of Germany, but especially in the eastern federal states," Reinhardt told the dpa news agency in Berlin.
That is questionable with a view to autumn and winter.
Many unvaccinated people are not convinced that they refuse to vaccinate.
"In order to reach these undecided people, the vaccination campaign in Germany has to be completely reorganized," said the President of the German Medical Association.
The request "sleeves up" initially worked.
"But now we need much more targeted communication measures and low-threshold vaccination offers." What is needed are creative concepts.
The state governments in Saxony and Thuringia, which have low vaccination rates, also rely on this.
"We see that education and discussions are important in order to convince people who are still hesitant," said the Saxon Health Minister Petra Köpping (SPD) of the dpa.
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Virologist
Dittmer
warns of overload in the intensive care units
03.15 a.m.:
The director of virology at the University Hospital Essen has warned against overloading the intensive care units in view of the increasing incidence of unvaccinated people.
"We're slowly ruining our health system," said Ulf Dittmer of the Rheinische Post.
In view of the increasing number of cases, the forces in the intensive care units would again reach their limits.
In his clinic, the number of sick people with severe symptoms is 23. Of these, 20 are not vaccinated and the youngest is 20 years old.
Dittmer therefore called for a discussion about mandatory vaccination.
"We need to talk about that," he said.
There is already no free space in North Rhine-Westphalia for treatment with a heart-lung machine: "Here we have to choose which patient we want to connect to the device."
Report: Pandemic has "devastating" effects on the fight against AIDS
2:05 a.m.:
The corona pandemic is having a catastrophic effect on the fight against other deadly diseases.
"The effects of Covid-19 on the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria and on the communities we support have been devastating," said the Executive Director of the Global Fund, Peter Sands, on Wednesday at the presentation of a report on the work of the international organization in the past year.
The fund is committed to ending these three epidemics.
To this end, he invests several billion euros in more than a hundred countries every year.
Most of the money comes from governments, but also from the private sector and foundations.
For the first time in the organization's almost 20-year history, there were setbacks in important factors last year, according to Sands.
The number of HIV tests fell 22 percent year-on-year.
The effects of the pandemic on the global fight against tuberculosis were also "catastrophic," according to the report.
In 2020 around 4.7 million people were treated for tuberculosis, about one million fewer than in the previous year.
According to the fund, it has saved around 44 million lives since it was founded in 2002 and has cut the number of deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the countries in which it invests by almost half.
Pediatricians: Teachers should have to provide information about their own vaccination
12:35 a.m.:
From the point of view of
paediatricians, the
federal states should oblige their teachers to provide information about their corona vaccination status.
“You now show your vaccination card every time you go to a restaurant or movie theater.
Why shouldn't that also be possible in school, where it would be an important component for the safety of our children? ", Said Axel Gerschlauer, spokesman for the professional association of paediatricians in North Rhine (BVKJ) of the" Rheinische Post ".
The Bundestag decided on Tuesday that employers in day care centers, schools and nursing homes will be able to request information about a
corona
vaccination or a recovered Covid disease in the
future
.
The Federal Council still has to agree.
Gerschlauer demanded that the pressure on the unvaccinated must increase.
“The best protection for unvaccinated children are vaccinated adults.
This applies above all to teachers. «The outbreaks in schools were mostly triggered from outside by the adults.
Smarter also commented on protective measures in the health care system: "Even in pediatrician practices, we should think about a 3G rule for accompanying persons and, of course, staff: Unvaccinated adults must not endanger our little patients."
NRW only wants to send infected children to quarantine in the future
00.07 a.m.:
In North Rhine-Westphalia, in the event of corona infections in schools and daycare centers, only the sick children themselves should be quarantined.
"We are creating a regulation with a sense of proportion that ensures both the safety of our children and young people and their right to take part in face-to-face lessons and care," said Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) on Tuesday evening in Düsseldorf.
The necessary decrees and ordinances should therefore be drawn up and published by the end of the week.
However, the applicable hygiene measures such as regular ventilation, testing and wearing of medical masks must still be observed.
Only if several children are infected and therefore a noticeably larger outbreak can be assumed should health authorities issue quarantine orders beyond the individual child, it said.
These contact persons can return early if a PCR test turns out negative after five days.
The state health ministers and federal health minister Jens Spahn (CDU) spoke out on Monday in favor of less strict quarantine rules for corona cases in schools.
In principle, quarantine should no longer be ordered for the entire class in a case, according to a resolution.
New warning function for Corona app
00.01 a.m.:
The federal corona warning app has been expanded to include an additional warning function for events. This allows organizers to warn their guests of a possible risk encounter with a person who later tested positive, even if this visitor was not checked in via the app. The new version 2.9 will be released this Wednesday.
This additional warning procedure is made possible by a substitute regulation for the organizer. The option is approved by the health department. If, while following up chains of infection, the health department finds that a person who tested positive was at an event, it can contact the organizer. If the organizer had created a QR code for check-in via the Corona warning app, the health department can then issue a transaction number. This allows the organizer to issue a warning that everyone who was checked in for the event will receive.
The project team from Deutsche Telekom and SAP has also changed the Corona warning app so that in future it will display full vaccination protection for those who have recovered after the first vaccination.
Furthermore, users who have received a booster vaccination can now transfer it to the Corona warning app.
Like previous versions, the new version 2.9 will be made available gradually over the next few days.
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