The corona incidence is declining nationwide. The mouth-nose protection apparently has many fans in the population. The news ticker.
- The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has published current corona numbers * for Germany.
- According to a survey, every second person wants to continue wearing the mask – even without obligation.
- This news ticker about Corona* in Germany* is updated regularly.
Update from February 20, 1:45 p.m .: The vaccination campaign in Germany is still progressing slowly. According to the latest RKI data, around 156,000 vaccine doses were administered on Friday (February 18) – significantly fewer than a week earlier.
75.1 percent of the population now have basic protection, which usually requires two injections. 56.2 percent also received a booster vaccination*. 76.2 percent have been vaccinated at least once.
The Bundestag* now has several draft laws on general compulsory vaccination. Health Minister Lauterbach accused the CDU* of wanting to slow down the project he was aiming for. For employees in nursing and in clinics, vaccination will be compulsory from mid-March. Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder*, head of the conservative sister party CSU*, had announced that it would not be implemented in Bavaria for the time being.
Corona survey: Every second person wants to continue wearing a mask voluntarily
First report from February 20th : Berlin – Both the RKI* and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach* (SPD*) assume that the peak of the omicron wave in this country is behind us – at least as far as new infections are concerned. This Sunday, their number has fallen slightly again. The RKI puts the 7-day incidence at 1346.3.
118,032 further infections were added within one day, as well as 73 new deaths from or with Corona. However, experts suspect higher numbers, because the test capacities are at the limit in many places, and fewer people are doing a PCR test. According to the RKI, the hospitalization rate nationwide is 6.24.
Corona survey: majority of Germans want to continue wearing masks
The easing debate is gaining momentum. A current survey is interesting in this context. According to the Insa Institute, 52 percent of the participants stated that they wanted to hold on to the mask even if they were not required to do so. 79 percent of them want to wear the mask in local public transport, 76 percent in retail, 66 percent in long-distance transport, 39 percent in cultural institutions, 23 percent in gastronomy and 22 percent at work.
Insa conducted the survey for the picture on Sunday (BamS) from this Sunday (February 20th). For the representative survey, Insa interviewed 1003 people on Thursday. Another poll this week also found that a majority of Germans oppose celebrating a “Freedom Day” on March 20*.
German “Freedom Day” on March 20th? Mask duty should remain
The heads of the federal and state governments had agreed on February 16th to drop most of the corona measures on that date – except for the mask requirement, among other things. Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU*), for example, asked the traffic light coalition in the BamS this Sunday to quickly create the legal basis for a mask requirement extension.
In an interview with the BamS , Federal Minister for Family Affairs Anne Spiegel (Greens*) believes that a mask requirement, especially in schools, is still necessary. Objection came from the FDP* health politician Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus. “It is particularly important for children that they can go about their everyday life without a mask,” she said, according to dpa. (AFP/dpa/frs) *Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
