The corona incidence in Germany continues to rise, and the Robert Koch Institute again reported high numbers of infections on Saturday. The news ticker.
- The corona numbers in Germany keep increasing. On Saturday, the seven-day incidence is 277.4.
- Intensive care physician President Gernot Marx calls for booster vaccination after just five months (update from November 13th, 9.45 a.m.) .
- Meanwhile, Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for a vaccination and is pushing for a new threshold (update from November 13, 2:02 p.m.) .
- This news ticker about Corona in Germany is continuously updated.
Update from November 13th, 2:02 p.m.: Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is still Chancellor, addresses people in her video podcast and appeals for vaccinations: “Please join in and try to convince relatives and friends as well.” With a view to the tense situation in the hospitals and the federal / state meeting next Tuesday, she calls for an agreement on a new threshold. This should relate to the hospitalization rate. Merkel says that a value is needed “from which additional steps to contain the pandemic can be applied in a binding manner in addition to the measures that have been in force until now, in accordance with the regional infection values”.
The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gives the seven-day incidence of hospitalizations, i.e. how many people per 100,000 inhabitants were admitted to hospital because of a corona infection, with a value of 4.7 on Friday yesterday.
Update from November 13th, 9.45 a.m.: The President of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi) Gernot Marx addresses politics. In an interview with the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , he demands: “We need clear communication of the decisions and an end to the permanent arguments, so that what has been decided can be implemented and adhered to”.
In addition, Marx sees the booster vaccination as a crucial and “most effective” tool to break the current fourth wave. Above all, one thing is important: speed. “The vaccination campaign has to be accelerated at full throttle, with everything that is possible!” Said Marx. That is why he thinks it makes sense to carry out the booster vaccination after five months instead of six months after the second injection, as was previously the case. Experience from Israel had shown that this was an effective measure.
Corona in Germany: Incidence reaches new high – more than 45,000 new infections
First report from November 13th, 9:05 am: Berlin – The seven-day incidence on Saturday morning is 277.4. On Friday morning the value was still 263.8. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reports 45,081 new corona cases within one day. Many of the hotspots with particularly high numbers of infections are in Bavaria and Saxony. The district of Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains, south of Dresden, reported 2,805 new infections, which means an incidence of 1,146.2. Just behind it is the Lower Bavarian district of Rottal-Inn with an incidence of 1122.3.
Corona in Germany: increasing numbers require tougher measures
According to the RKI (3:11 a.m.), 228 deaths in connection with the corona virus were reported across Germany. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has recorded a total of 4,987,971 infections in Germany.
Some federal states such as Saxony and Berlin are now consistently relying on a “2G” regulation. The measures are also being tightened in other European countries, in the Netherlands. A partial lockdown, with curfew, should provide more control here. At the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen-Nürnberg, only vaccinated and recovered students will have the opportunity to attend lectures from Monday.
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