In Lower Saxony, the higher administrative court overturns the 2G rule in retail. The vaccine is scarce. Moderna is now announcing booster doses until December. The news ticker.
- According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) *, the incidence has fallen again (update from December 16, 6:20 a.m.).
- Lower Saxony: Court overturns 2G rule in retail (update from December 16, 4.40 p.m.).
- In Hesse, the 2G rule is also called for (update from December 16, 8:20 p.m.) .
- Moderna is still delivering 10 million vaccine doses in December (update from December 16, 2:48 p.m.) .
- This news ticker on Corona * in Germany will no longer be updated. You can now find all further information in our current news ticker.
Update from December 16, 8:20 p.m.: After the court decision in Lower Saxony, which overturned the local 2G regulation in retail, the Hessian Chamber of Commerce and Industry is calling for an end to the regulation in Hesse as well. “The state government should also end 2G in the Hessian retail sector,” said President Kirsten Schoder-Steinmüller on Thursday.
“All shops should be allowed to reopen without restriction as soon as possible – with a distance, of course, masks and a hygiene concept,” she demanded. Shops for daily needs such as grocery stores or pharmacies are excluded from the rule. Schoder-Steinmüller described this as a major distortion of competition.
Corona in Germany: Court overturns the 2G rule in retail in Lower Saxony
Update from December 16, 4.40 p.m .: For Lower Saxony, the Lüneburg Higher Administrative Court has overturned the 2G regulation in retail *. The rule is currently not a necessary protective measure, the court announced on Thursday. In addition, it is unlikely to be compatible with the general principle of equality because various transactions are excluded.
Grocery stores, garden centers and electronics repair shops were exempt from the 2G rule in Lower Saxony, but hardware stores were not. According to the court, this has no comprehensible factual reasons. The numerous exceptions reduced the suitability of the regulation to achieve its infection protection goals: The majority of customer contacts take place in grocery stores anyway, argued the OVG.
Update from December 16, 3:10 p.m .: “Omikron is also dangerous for those who have been vaccinated,” warns RKI boss Lothar Wieler in Berlin. Omikron cases have surfaced in every federal state. So far, 100 Omicron cases have been recorded. How big is the number of unreported cases at Omikron?
Update from December 16, 3 p.m .: How much vaccine is actually missing? Karl Lauterbach (SPD) makes a statement. Here you can follow the press conference with RKI boss Lothar Wieler live.
Moderna delivers 10 million extra doses of vaccine
Update from December 16, 2:48 p.m .: Moderna will deliver 10 million vaccine doses this year. The additional vaccination doses could be brought forward to December, as it was said on Thursday from EU circles, reports the news agency dpa. Another 25 million cans could be brought forward into the first quarter of 2022. From the total of 35 million doses, up to 70 million doses could be used for booster purposes, as half a dose is used for this at Moderna.
The federal government had already announced on Wednesday that it wanted to buy an additional 80 million doses of the preparation from Biontech through EU contracts. The budget committee of the Bundestag had approved around 2.2 billion euros for this and for 12 million other cans that are to be procured directly.
Vaccination quota in Germany – health insurance doctors counter RKI allegation
Update from December 16, 2:25 p.m.: How high is the vaccination rate in Germany actually? RKI boss Wieler is said to have accused resident doctors of improper documentation of the vaccinations. The National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians responded promptly and accused the RKI of failures *.
Update from December 16, 12 noon: The compulsory corona test will no longer apply in Germany after the booster vaccination. The health ministers around Karl Lauterbach (SPD) name a deadline – which a large federal state does not adhere to.
Corona pandemic in Germany: vaccination campaign is really picking up speed – new daily record
Update from December 16, 11 a.m.: The corona vaccination campaign is picking up speed again. A new daily record was set in Germany on Wednesday. 1.496 million doses were injected, according to the data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Thursday. These included almost 1.3 million booster vaccinations and 97,400 primary vaccinations. The previous record vaccination day in the pandemic was June 9, when 1.43 million vaccine doses were injected.
- In Germany, 70 percent of all residents have achieved complete basic protection through vaccination.
- At least 22.9 million people (27.6 percent of the total population) have received an additional booster injection for refreshment.
Corona in Germany: RKI reports hundreds of Covid 19 deaths again
Update from December 16, 6:20 a.m.: The corona numbers on Thursday morning: The nationwide seven-day incidence has fallen again compared to the previous day. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week at 340.1. The previous day the value was 353. The health authorities in Germany reported 56,677 new corona infections to the RKI within one day (RKI dashboard, as of 4.47 a.m.) . Exactly one week ago there were 70,611 infections.
According to the new information, 522 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours. The number of corona patients admitted to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days was given by the RKI on Wednesday with 5.27 (Tuesday with 5.21).
There will also be a press conference this Thursday with Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD): From 3 p.m. he will be available to answer questions from the capital’s press on vaccine supply and other corona issues. Just like his predecessor Jens Spahn (CDU), Lauterbach will appear in front of the press together with the President of the Robert Koch Institute, Lothar Wieler. Lauterbach announced on Tuesday that, according to the previous stocks and orders, there was too little vaccine available at the beginning of next year. On Wednesday, his ministry announced the order for an additional 92 million cans for 2022. The press conference will also deal with the vaccinations for children between the ages of five and eleven that have started this week.
Corona vaccinations in Germany: deliveries are unlikely to keep up with demand
Update from December 15, 10:00 p.m.: The vaccination doses in Germany are still scarce. As stated by the Ministry of Health Karl Lauterbach during the program “Markus Lanz – the year 2021”, the deliveries are currently not keeping up with demand. “In the next week we can deliver 1.2 million cans of Biontech for all of Germany, the following week 800,000 cans and then another 1.2 million cans,” said the SPD politician.
At the same time, Lauterbach sees no reason to slow down the campaign, even if the current vaccine is a reserve. “We pour everything out here. Because the campaign has to go as well as it can. “
Corona in Germany: Bundestag approves additional expenditure for corona vaccine
Update from December 15, 6.40 p.m.: The Bundestag’s budget committee has approved an additional 2.2 billion euros for the procurement of additional corona vaccines. The fourth wave of the vaccine is urgently needed, argued Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) to the Reuters news agency. “We have to fear the omicron variant.”
“We are speeding up vaccinations,” confirmed Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP), who shared a statement with Lauterbach. Germany could procure additional vaccines for next year. “We’re talking about 92 million cans of Biontech and Moderna.”
Corona in Germany: Alleged vaccination fraud at Lake Constance
Update from December 15, 5:07 p.m.: In the Lake Constance district, the police in Ravensburg and the public prosecutor in Constance are investigating a serious suspicion. In a doctor’s practice, a substance is said to have been vaccinated against corona, which may be ineffective and in any case is not an approved active ingredient. The police seized evidence during a judicially authorized search of the doctor’s practice concerned.
The Südkurier had previously reported on the alleged vaccination fraud. According to this, around 500 patients are affected. The authorities had become aware of the case after no antibodies against the virus could be detected in three patients despite the first and second vaccination and there were no comprehensible medical reasons for this.
If the suspicion is confirmed, the operator or operators of the practice must answer at least for dangerous bodily harm, according to a police report. The people affected were accordingly written to, informed and warned by the responsible health department.
Corona: German pharmacies are declaring war on vaccination passport counterfeiters
Update from December 15, 2:02 p.m .: “The pharmacies are increasingly confronted with forged vaccination certificates,” complains the head of the pharmacists’ association, Thomas Dittrich. They now want to take action against this. As of Thursday (December 16), employees at more than 18,000 pharmacies across Germany will be able to query batch numbers directly online using software, according to the DAV. It shows whether the numbers also match the inoculated vaccine.
So far, they could only check whether the vaccination cards are complete, plausible and belong to the right person. “Those who present falsified documents will now find it even more difficult to steal digital vaccination certificates,” said Thomas Preis from the North Rhine-Westphalian Pharmacists’ Association of the Rheinische Pos t.
Because of Corona: Young people start studying faster
Update from December 15, 11:52 a.m.: The corona crisis is also interesting to take a look at the new students. Their number was above average in 2020 – with a transition rate of 48 percent at a high. Specifically, it concerns 185,000 young people who switched to universities in the same year after graduating from school. This has now been announced by the Federal Statistical Office.
In the previous year, their share was 43 percent. Statisticians see a connection with the pandemic. It made other educational pathways or work and travel programs much more difficult.
Corona incidence drops again – experts waiting for Omicron vaccine for children
First report from December 15 : Berlin – The trend is pointing further down: The nationwide 7-day incidence has fallen again compared to the previous day. The RKI gave the value on Wednesday morning as 353. The day before it was 375, a week ago it was 427.
The RKI now reported 51,301 new corona infections nationwide within one day. Exactly one week ago there were 69,601 infections. 453 new Covid deaths were recorded within 24 hours. The hospitalization rate is currently 5.21 (Monday: 5.17).
Waiting for Omicron Vaccine for Children? Depending on age and health
In addition to many booster vaccinations *, the focus is currently also on children’s vaccinations – some are already vaccinated. From the point of view of the professional association of paediatricians, parents can, depending on the age and health of their children, wait for an Omikron vaccine to be available from spring.
“We do not generally recommend the vaccination to healthy children between five and eleven years because of the residual risk of still unknown rare side effects”, said association spokesman Jakob Maske of the dpa. “Therefore, in this case, we also advocate waiting for the time being.”
The specialist in microbiology, virology and infection epidemiology Jana Schroeder (Mathias-Spital Foundation, Rheine) advises against it. Germany still has a problem with the Delta variant. “The vaccination works much better against them than against Omikron. At the moment it is also still unclear whether Omikron will completely displace Delta. “
With a child from the age of 12, on the other hand, you can definitely start vaccinating. “I wouldn’t wait for an omicron vaccine,” said Maske.
For the age group from 12 years there has been a general vaccination recommendation of the Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko). For smaller children, on the other hand, the Stiko has so far only advised corona vaccination if they have certain previous illnesses or people with a high corona risk in their environment. However, if desired and after medical advice, every child can still be vaccinated. From this week on, a lower dose vaccine for five to eleven year olds should be able to be used in Germany.
Corona: Manufacturers are working on adapted Omicron vaccines
Because of the strongly mutated Omicron variant, which is increasingly causing infections in several countries, vaccine manufacturers have announced that they will be working on adapted vaccines. So far, however, it is not yet certain whether these will actually be necessary.
Biontech had also announced that a new vaccine would not be immediately available in large quantities if production were to start up in March. (dpa / cibo / frs) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.
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