Corona in Germany: Vaccination turbo accelerates further – Cologne sends mobile vaccination teams to social hot spots

The corona situation in Germany is slowly improving. The vaccination rate continues to accelerate. The news ticker.

Update from May 3, 4:05 p.m.: In Germany, 28.2 percent of people have now received at least one corona vaccination. That comes from the numbers of the vaccination dashboard from Monday. Accordingly, 250,114 corona vaccinations were carried out on Sunday. 8 percent of the population, i.e. more than 6.6 million people, have now received full vaccination protection.

The vaccination campaign in Germany has picked up speed and vaccination in this country is even faster than in Great Britain or the USA. At least that’s what Spiegel reports, citing processed data from the Oxford University platform “Our World in Data”.

According to this, 0.78 vaccine doses per 100 inhabitants were vaccinated in Germany in the last seven days. Only Qatar (0.93), Uruguay (0.95) and the front runner Hungary (1.3) showed a faster pace. Great Britain (0.74) and the USA (0.72) have now fallen behind Germany. However, this is also due to the fact that large parts of the population there have already received their corona vaccination. In the UK, more than 50 percent of the population has already received a primary vaccination, and in the US it is around 44 percent.

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Corona in Germany: Cologne starts vaccination in socially disadvantaged areas

Update from May 3, 1:25 p.m.: The city of Cologne started the early corona vaccination of people in socially disadvantaged areas on Monday. As a spokesman for the city announced, the residents of the Chorweiler district were initially offered a vaccination. A so-called vaccination bus was parked in a central square in the high-rise estate. At the beginning, 300 corona vaccination doses from the manufacturer Moderna would be available.

The Cologne pilot project provides for residents of socially disadvantaged areas with high numbers of infections to be preferably vaccinated against the coronavirus. Mobile vaccination teams are to be used for this. In the Cologne district of Chorweiler, the 7-day incidence was last at 543.4 and thus well above the average for the city of Cologne (188.8).

The mayor of Cologne Henriette Reker (independent) resisted criticism of the action. “We just don’t override the vaccination sequence,” Reker clarified on Monday at Phoenix. “We have succeeded in prioritizing group three for these people in the social rooms, and now it is group three’s turn. Since we vaccinate with a separate vaccine, nobody here misses a vaccination that they would otherwise have received. “

Corona in Germany: outbreak on asparagus farm – the entire district is now threatened with the emergency brake

Update from May 3, 11.55 a.m.: After a corona outbreak on an asparagus and berry farm, people in the Lower Saxony district of Diepholz must be prepared for tougher corona rules. According to the numbers from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) from Monday morning, the 7-day incidence there is 132.7. This means that the critical mark of 100 has been exceeded on the third day in a row.

In this case, the district had announced that from Wednesday (May 5) additional measures of the nationwide Corona emergency brake and the requirements of the Corona Ordinance of the State of Lower Saxony should apply. At the weekend, the Diepholz district announced that a series of tests on the asparagus and berry farm found 87 corona infections. A total of 1011 people were tested. A new series of tests is to take place in the affected company on Monday.

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From the point of view of intensive care physicians, the Federal Emergency Brake “was able to save many thousands of lives”

Update from May 3, 9:58 a.m.: After the praise of SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach for the federal emergency brake (see update from May 2, 10:30 p.m.) , the intensive care physicians also draw an initial positive balance. “We are confident that the number of Covid-19 patients in the intensive care units will decrease – and that is directly related to the measures taken by the federal emergency brake, as well as the significant progress in vaccination,” said DIVI President Gernot Marx the Rheinische Post .

The declining infection rate in Germany will also be visible in the intensive care units in a week. “We are convinced of that,” Marx continued. “From our point of view, the federal emergency brake was able to save many thousands of lives,” assured the DIVI President.

At the moment, one could not speak of relaxation in the intensive care units. A “plateau formation” has been observed in the number of corona patients of around 5,000 for a good week. Nevertheless, Marx was confident: “We have justified hope that the combination of a federal emergency brake plus an ongoing vaccination campaign will allow us to cope with the pandemic in the next few months, so that the third wave was also the last big wave of Covid patients.”

Corona in Germany: Super hotspot in Thuringia

Update from May 3, 8.28 a.m .: An incidence of more than 500 – the Corona hotspot is according to RKI information in Thuringia. The Saale-Orla district is currently particularly affected by Corona with a 7-day incidence of 574.0. Two districts in Saxony follow: Central Saxony with 370.9 and the Erzgebirgskreis with 342.4. The weekly value is lowest in the district of North Friesland (Schleswig-Holstein): 33.7.

Corona: RKI reports 9,610 new infections and 84 deaths

Update from May 3, 6.11 a.m .: The number of corona cases in Germany is falling: The health authorities in Germany reported 9,160 new corona infections and 84 further deaths to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day. The 7-day incidence on Monday morning is 146.9.

Experience shows that the number of cases is lower on Monday because fewer tests are carried out on the weekend. Late registrations are therefore still possible. On Monday a week ago, the RKI recorded 11,907 new coronavirus infections and 60 deaths within one day.

Corona hope? Lauterbach calls Merkel’s emergency brake a “good overall package” – and gives a summer forecast

Update from May 2, 10:30 p.m.: Karl Lauterbach sees Germany on the way out of the Corona crisis. “I assume that the number of cases will drop significantly from mid-May to the end of May. Then we can say we have defeated the third wave, ”emphasized the SPD health expert in a WDR interview. So far the wave has only broken. At the same time, the 58-year-old warned against carelessness, because: “You shouldn’t overestimate the vaccination effect: less than 35 percent of 70 to 80-year-olds have been vaccinated so far.”

In addition, we must look more closely at a different generation: “If the numbers among children and young people should increase in the next few weeks, the third wave could start again. So we have to be very careful there. ”All in all, however, he is optimistic about the future:“ The summer will be good. The Indian mutant will not endanger that. ”The new infection protection law with emergency brake, compulsory tests in schools and companies as well as night exit restrictions have played a large part in the positive development. This means that Germany has “a good overall package at the start that should normally be enough to get the third wave under control”.

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Corona crisis in Germany: Vaccines must be distributed between practices and centers as needed

Munich – Germany * is once again facing very decisive weeks in the Corona * pandemic. In May it is about setting the course for a smooth return to a largely normal everyday life. Of course, taking into account the novel coronavirus *, which may never be completely defeated, which has cost the lives of more than 80,000 people in this country.

Among other things, the decisive factor is the need-based distribution of the vaccine * to medical practices and centers so that the vaccine can be administered as quickly as possible and has to be disposed of as little as possible. In addition, politicians must decide to what extent a rigid adherence to the sequence of vaccinations * remains sensible and timely in view of the increasing number of drugs delivered.

Corona crisis in Germany: Question about the return of basic rights to vaccinated and convalescent people

Above all, there is also the question of which basic rights vaccinated and recovered people – possibly also those who tested negative – are granted again. Behind this should also be the hope that because of the Corona measures *, idle industries such as the hotel and catering industry but also the retail trade will be given a perspective that has been hoped for here for so long. On the other hand, the political decision-makers apparently fear a debate about envy, if in spring and possibly also early summer millions of Germans have to witness how some compatriots enjoy a new freedom that remains closed to them through no fault of their own.

These debates are now being conducted in Angela Merkel’s cabinet, but also in parliaments. In view of the stagnating or even falling incidence values in many cities and districts of the Federal Republic as well as an R value * of less than 1 – infected people infect less than one other person on average – it is high time to do so. (mg) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

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