Rapid increase: RKI reports new corona record in Germany – completely changed hotspot picture

The RKI reported more than 80,000 new corona infections in Germany on Wednesday morning. The number has almost doubled within a day. The news ticker.

Update from January 12th, 5:05 p.m.: According to a report by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, Schleswig-Holstein was the first federal state to terminate the contract with the company behind the Luca app. Since the state has lifted the obligation to collect contact data and a reintroduction is not in sight, there is “no reason to hold on to Luca,” said the manager of the Schleswig-Holstein district council, Sönke Schulz, of the newspaper on Wednesday.

The Luca app is used to track contacts, so guests can log in to restaurants, for example. Schulz said: “Until the obligation to collect contact data was lifted, the health authorities gave us positive feedback on the use of Luca.” After that, however, the use of Luca was greatly reduced.

A spokeswoman for the Luca manufacturer Nexenio GmbH told the newspaper that the termination of Schleswig-Holstein will probably have no impact on the decisions of other federal states. The system behind the Luca app is currently connected to the health authorities in 13 of 16 federal states for corona contact tracking. The annual contracts expire in spring. According to the report, the contracts will be extended for another year without notice.

Corona in Germany: Offer for the fourth corona vaccination required for everyone by summer

Update from January 12, 2:04 p.m.: The board of the German Patient Protection Foundation, Eugen Brysch, is demanding an offer of a fourth corona vaccination for everyone by the summer. “Everyone should have the opportunity to be able to take advantage of a fourth vaccination offer with the active ingredients currently available by the summer,” he told the newspapers of the Funke media group . It looks different with a vaccine adapted to new virus variants. The Bundestag must have prioritized the distribution by June at the latest, said Brysch. The elderly, those in need of care and the seriously ill should not be the losers here.

The intensive care doctor Christian Karagiannidis, however, advised against offering a fourth corona vaccination now. “With a systematic fourth vaccination, we should wait until an adapted vaccine is available,” said the member of the German government’s Corona Expert Council.

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Corona in Germany: Bremen is a hotspot among the federal states

Update from January 12, 10:42 a.m.: In terms of incidences, there are currently significant differences between the federal states. Thuringia (277.6), Saxony (239.5) and Saxony-Anhalt (254.4) are currently doing comparatively well with values below 300. In contrast, the city-states in particular are at the bottom of the list. The absolute hotspot is Bremen with an incidence of 1296.8. Berlin (856.4), Schleswig-Holstein (633.0) and Hamburg (568.9) follow. However, the number of infections is likely to rise rapidly with a time lag, even in the so far less affected federal states.

So far, the Omikron wave has not been reflected in the intensive care units. The number of corona patients there has been falling continuously since mid-December, most recently to just under 3,200. For comparison: at the height of the second wave it was more than 5,700. However, experts expect that as the number of infections increases significantly, so will the burden in the clinics.

Corona in Germany: RKI reports new record

First report from January 12th: Berlin – In other countries it was already so far, now it is Germany’s turn. Omikron is causing the number of infections to rise rapidly. On Wednesday morning (January 12), the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported a surge in the numbers and a new corona record in Germany.

The number of new infections transmitted within one day exceeded the 80,000 mark for the first time. The health authorities reported a total of 80,430 new corona infections * within 24 hours. Compared to Tuesday (January 11), the number has almost doubled (previous day: 45,690 new infections). The previous record was 65,371 new cases on November 18, 2021.

Corona in Germany: Incidence rises to over 400

According to the RKI, the nationwide seven-day incidence * is 407.5. For comparison: the previous day the value was 387.9. A week ago the nationwide incidence was 258.6 (previous month: 390.9). According to the new information, 384 deaths were recorded throughout Germany within one day.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the RKI has now counted a total of 7,661,811 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 in Germany. The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections are not recognized. The number of people who died of or involving a proven corona infection * rose to 114,735.

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Corona in Germany: The federal government is organizing another five million Biontech cans

In order to counteract a further increase in the numbers, the Federal Ministry of Health has organized another five million doses of the corona vaccine from Biontech for the targeted acceleration of vaccinations in Germany. They should be available from the week of January 24th, as the ministry said on Tuesday evening.

The cans are bought from an EU quota in Romania that currently does not need the vaccination doses. In total, around 32 million Corona vaccine doses should be available in the three weeks of January 17, January 24 and January 31, as it was further said – twelve million from Biontech and 20 million from Moderna. This means that, in the next three weeks, anyone who wants a booster vaccination will be able to get it. The federal government had set the goal of achieving a total of another 30 million vaccinations by the end of January. (ph with dpa) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

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