The corona numbers in Germany continue to rise drastically, on Wednesday the RKI reported another record. An intensive care doctor now paints a bleak picture for two federal states. The news ticker.
- The corona values in Germany reached a new record on Wednesday, November 10th (see original message).
- An intensive care doctor is now painting a bleak picture for two federal states (see original report).
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Berlin – The Corona * pandemic is picking up speed again in Germany, and the Robert Koch Institute has been reporting a drastic increase in the number of infections for weeks. Last week, the institute had reported a new corona high, but this Wednesday, November 10, 2021, more new corona * infections were reported than ever before.
RKI reports corona record: intensive care physician calls for 2G across the board
As the RKI reported on Wednesday, the nationwide seven-day incidence rose to 232.1. On Monday, the value of 201.1 had reached the highest level since the start of the pandemic in Germany. Last winter, the high on December 22nd was a seven-day incidence of 197.6.
While the fourth corona wave is rolling over Germany, epidemiologist Hajo Zeeb urges more caution. “It is urgently necessary that we return from relaxation mode to seriousness mode, unfortunately also all vaccinated”, explained the expert from the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology in Bremen. Since vaccinated and convalescent people could also become infected, from his point of view “2G plus test” should become the standard over the winter. This would mean that only those who have been vaccinated and those who have recovered have access to certain locations and have to be additionally tested.
Corona in Germany: will the first patients have to be moved soon?
According to intensive care physician Christian Karagiannidis, 2G should be introduced nationwide by next week at the latest. “That brought a lot in the European region, so we should implement it. We must
react ”, said the President of the German Society for Internal Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine (DGIIN) to the Berliner Tagesspiegel.
The situation in the intensive care units has been worsening for weeks. It won’t be long before the first corona intensive care patients have to be relocated from the severely affected federal states of Saxony and Thuringia because there is no more space there. “I took another look at the curves today – they go up too steeply for me. It won’t go on for more than two or three weeks, ”says Karagiannidis. * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
Meanwhile, the Stiko provides a vaccine surprise. After side effects were observed more and more after vaccination with the vaccine from the manufacturer Moderna, the Stiko is now changing its recommendation for under 30-year-olds.
