The corona incidence is falling again. Meanwhile, the virologist Christian Drosten speaks of a summer that should not be completely free of corona worries. The news ticker.
- The RKI initially did not report any Corona * infection numbers on Wednesday morning, the numbers are now available (see update from March 2nd, 9.15 a.m.).
- The virologist Christian Drosten publishes a gloomy summer forecast.
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Update from March 2, 9.15 a.m .: The Robert Koch Institute did not report the current corona numbers as usual early on Wednesday morning. The current figures are now available. The nationwide seven-day incidence has therefore fallen again. The RKI gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Wednesday morning as 1171.9. For comparison: the day before the value was 1213.0. A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 1278.9 (previous month: 1227.5). The health authorities in Germany reported 186,406 new corona infections to the RKI within one day. A week ago there were 209,052 infections.
According to the new information, 301 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours. A week ago there were 299 deaths. The number of corona-infected patients who came to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days was 5.93 (Monday: 6.08) according to the RKI on Tuesday. Among them are many people with a positive corona test who have another main illness. The value is not reported on weekends.
Corona: Virologist Drosten with a bitter summer forecast – delay in numbers at the RKI
Original message: Berlin – It was a long, hard Corona * winter that lies behind Germany. For weeks, the Robert Koch Institute reported more than 200,000 new infections every day. The infection process has been slowly ebbing away for days. However, virologist Christian Drosten does not assume a corona summer without worries. Meanwhile, the current infection numbers of the RKI are delayed.
Corona: Virologist Drosten with a bitter summer forecast – delay in numbers at the RKI
In the past two years, the warm summer has already resulted in low infection rates and a significant easing of the pandemic. If virologist Christian Drosten has his way, the summer will not be entirely without worries. On the one hand, the current vaccination progress is not sufficient, on the other hand, the infection activity through the omicron variant is still high, said the scientist from the Berlin Charité on Tuesday in the podcast “Coronavirus Update” on NDR-Info . “Therefore, I assume that there will not be an infection-free summer.”
Drosten pointed out that in South Africa, for example, the omicron wave had risen steeply in midsummer. He doesn’t assume that an “untamed” wave will be seen in Germany in the summer, but “you will also be able to get infected with this omicron virus in the summer”. Accordingly, he also thinks it is advisable to continue wearing masks indoors in summer. In particular, wearing FFP2 masks indoors is “the most efficient measure of all” in the long term.
With a view to the winter, Drosten is very certain that there will be another wave. He hopes that this will not be accompanied by a serious burden of illness in the population, but the risk of large-scale work absences will continue to exist. “The pandemic is not only over when the vaccination has reduced the severity of the disease, but also when this high level of transmissibility has ended as a result of certain modifications in the population,” he warned.
Corona in Germany: will the omicron subtype BA.2 cause the next heavy wave?
Drosten explained that the omicron subtype BA.2, which is probably even easier to transmit and is spreading more and more, remains an uncertainty factor for the development. Drosten said that previous study data from several countries cannot be used to determine whether BA.2 leads to more severe disease progressions. The data are still very preliminary. However, he hopes for insights from Hong Kong, where many older people have been very hesitant about the vaccination and where Omicron is now showing a heavy burden of disease in this group.
It is still unclear how the infection will develop on Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Unlike on normal days, the Robert Koch Institute had not yet reported any current infection numbers by 7 a.m. in the early morning. *Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
