Status: 04/30/2022 11:18 a.m
In the live ticker, NDR.de will also inform you today – on Saturday, April 30, 2022 – about the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic for Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Hamburg. Yesterday’s news you can in Friday’s blog read.
The essentials in brief:
- Hamburg is now no longer a “corona hotspot”.
- Call for doctors in Hamburg Study on the Corona policy of the Hanseatic city
- Confirmed new infections in the North: 14,014 in Lower Saxony4,361 in Schleswig Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania no longer reports current figures on weekends
- RKI: 87,298 new corona cases registered nationwide – incidence at 717.4
Tables and graphics: This is how the vaccination campaign works in the north
Map: New infections in the north German counties
11:18 am
Doctors call for a study on Hamburg’s corona policy
Now that most of the corona rules have been abolished in Hamburg from today, it is time to research what went well and what went badly in the past two years of the pandemic, demands the President of the Hamburg Medical Association, Pedram Emami. Then you would know for the future which health data absolutely must be collected in order to make the right decisions.
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09:29 am
MV: No more current corona numbers at the weekend
The State Office for Health and Social Affairs (LAGuS) in Rostock only publishes a current Corona situation report for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania from Monday to Friday. That’s what she writes authority in a statement on its website. The background is the currently manageable situation of the infection process. In addition, the waiver at the weekend provides a certain relief after months of extreme stress on the employees in the health authorities. In addition, the risk-weighted step map is no longer required. The decisions were made in consultation with the Ministry of Health. The next current Corona situation report will be available on Monday around 5 p.m.
8:47 a.m
14,014 new corona infections in Lower Saxony – incidence drops to 1,009.1
According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Lower Saxony, the seven-day incidence, i.e. the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within one week, is currently 1,009.1. The previous day it was 1,088.6, compared to 1,174.1 a week ago. The RKI reports a total of 14,014 new infections. The day before there were 13,182, a week ago 22,926. In addition, 26 other deaths related to Corona were counted.
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7:50 a.m
Newspaper: Number of child sick pay days more than doubled in 2021
Parents apparently took significantly more child sick pay days last year than in the previous year. This emerges from an analysis by the health insurance company Barmer, which is available to the “Welt am Sonntag”. Overall, the fund approved around 1.3 million child sickness benefit days in 2021, more than twice as many as in the previous year with around 566,000 days. Around 30 percent of the total paydays in 2021 were accounted for by the pandemic-related child sickness benefit. Parents whose children had to be looked after due to school and daycare closures during the Corona crisis could have used this for the first time. However, according to the analysis, there is a clear imbalance in child sickness benefit days in families. In the past year, for example, women claimed child sickness benefit on a total of around 964,000 days (73 percent); for men it was about 351,000 days (27 percent).
6:52 a.m
Hamburg is no longer a corona “hotspot”.
In Hamburg, the status as a corona “hotspot” decided by the citizenship ends today. As in all other federal states, this means that corona restrictions such as the requirement to wear a mask indoors are no longer applicable. The majority of the population is protected against a serious course of the disease by vaccination or recovery, so that Hamburg is at the transition to a new phase of pandemic containment, the Senate wrote in a press release. While the corona mask is no longer mandatory when shopping in Hamburg from today, the Senate is sticking to the mask requirement in local public transport. The mask requirement also remains in medical facilities such as hospitals and nursing homes. Companies can also impose a mask requirement for employees at least until the end of May.
VIDEO: Social Senator in an interview on the end of the Corona measures (4 min)
6:50 a.m
RKI registers 87,298 new corona infections – incidence falls to 717.4
The nationwide seven-day incidence has continued to fall. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week on Saturday morning as 717.4 (previous day 758.5; previous week: 821.7; previous month: 1,663.0). However, the incidence does not provide a complete picture of the development of the infection, also because the official reporting data depends on the testing behavior of the population. The RKI therefore analyzes other parameters regularly – but not on a daily basis. In their weekly report published on Thursday, the experts assumed, among other things, that the key figures for hospital admissions had continued to decrease. The health authorities in Germany recently reported 87,298 new corona infections to the RKI within one day, as can be seen from today’s figures, which reflect the status of the RKI dashboard at 5:02 a.m. (previous week: 135,079 registered infections). The values vary significantly between the individual days of the week, as some federal states do not report to the RKI, especially at weekends. According to the new information, 159 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours. A week ago there were 234 deaths. This number also fluctuates a lot from day to day, since only a few data are reported to the RKI at the weekend.
6:45 a.m
Newsletter Mail: News for the North
Whether it’s Corona or climate change, whether it’s an election poll or a shipyard crisis: with the NDR newsletter you’ll stay up to date. We bundle the most important events of the day from a northern perspective. Politics and current affairs are just as important as the latest in sports, culture and science. The free newsletter is sent by e-mail from Monday to Friday in the afternoon.
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6:40 a.m
Schleswig-Holstein: 4,361 new infections registered
The seven-day incidence of new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants in Schleswig-Holstein has fallen further. The value is currently 985.7, as can be seen from the figures from the state registration office. The day before, the number had been 1,030.9. 4,361 new infections were reported, compared to 5,291 the day before. According to the information, 443 patients with a corona infection are in clinics – three fewer than the day before.
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6:30 a.m
Live ticker for the Corona situation starts on Saturday
Good Morning! With our live ticker we want to inform you today – on Saturday, April 30, 2022 – about the effects of the corona pandemic in northern Germany. Here you will find all the important news as well as content from the NDR radio and television programs. Yesterday’s events you can Read Friday’s blog.
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