Tuesday, November 30th, 2021
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+++ 03:48 Greens health expert for regional lockdowns +++
The Green health expert Janosch Dahmen calls for a stronger shutdown in many areas of public life. “We need a uniform partial lockdown in many regions of the country in order to break the fourth wave,” said the member of the Bundestag. This does not mean general, but targeted closings where the situation is out of control. “Schools and daycare centers should, however, remain as open as possible with masks and daily tests.” For unvaccinated people there should be contact restrictions in private as in the first lockdown. Dahmen also considers the closure of restaurants, bars and discos and the prohibition of larger events to be necessary.
+++ 02:57 US epidemic agency recommends boosters for everyone over 18 +++
The CDC recommends booster vaccination for all vaccinated people who are 18 years of age or older. Anyone who received the vaccine from Biontech / Pfizer or Moderna should receive the booster six months later. In the case of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, on the other hand, the interval is said to be only two months. The Omikron variant shows how important vaccinations are, explains CDC boss Rochelle Walensky.
+++ 02:05 Braun calls for the emergency brake: “Every day counts” +++
The executive head of the Chancellery, Helge Braun, insists on an “emergency brake” in order to master the infection situation. Every day counts, said the CDU politician to the newspapers of the Funke media group. The goal must be to quickly reduce the number of contacts by 60 to 70 percent in regions with a high infection rate, says Braun. “We now have to hold all major events with thousands of participants, for example Bundesliga games, without visitors again.” In schools there must be a mask requirement again in all grades. “Where the infection rate is particularly critical, consideration must be given to the closure of facilities that are assigned to the leisure sector.”
+++ 01:15 Streeck: “The number of infections could plateau” +++
Hendrik Streeck sees signs of a slight relaxation in the corona infection numbers. There are increasing numbers of cases, “but the growth of the increase is slower over time,” said Streeck the RTL Nachtjournal. The R-value fell below 1 for the first time in weeks. There has been “a permanent decline for a few days,” said the Bonn virologist. “That’s a very good sign.” This gives rise to the cautious hope “that this will continue and that we will no longer increase the number of infections, but will perhaps reach a plateau,” explained Streeck. The R value indicates how many other people an infected person infects purely mathematically.
+++ 00:23 Göring-Eckardt: “Have to reduce contacts nationwide” +++
Green parliamentary group leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt is calling for nationwide decisions in the fight against Corona this week. “Otherwise we will somehow hang around in the next loop of this wave in January or February,” she said on the ARD program “Hart aber fair”. What needs to be done is obvious: “reduce contacts”, namely “together, nationwide, according to common criteria”. As possible measures, she mentioned the closure of bars and discos and the cancellation of events in the program. “You may have to say together: Gastronomy is not possible, because we just sit in the interior without a mask.”
+++ 23:32 650 people at Corona protest in Erfurt +++
Hundreds of people protested against the corona policy in Thuringian cities. In Erfurt, around 650 opponents of the measure were on an unauthorized “Corona walk”. Many had candles with them, but they did not wear mouth and nose protection. The protest was “peaceful and largely trouble-free,” said the police. Outside the state capital, the number of participants remained mostly in the double-digit range. The Thuringian Corona Emergency Ordinance currently only allows stationary rallies with a maximum of 35 participants.
+++ 23:00 Omikron detected in Sweden and Spain +++
The new Omikron variant has also been detected for the first time in Spain and Sweden. In Sweden, according to the health authorities, it was found in a sample just over a week old from a traveler who was recently in South Africa. The tested person had also entered Spain from South Africa. He’s doing well so far, writes the Microbiology Laboratory at the Gregorio Marañón Hospital in Madrid.
+++ 10:13 pm Omicron discovery: Spahn thanks South Africa +++
Health Minister Jens Spahn thanked South Africa for the quick clarification about the Coronavirus variant Omikron. “This exemplary transparency deserves our support,” he tweeted after a G7 health minister post. Everyone agreed on that. “This is how global pandemic control works,” he adds. The G7 health ministers agree to deliberate again in December.
+++ 21:50 Hundreds of Saxons on unauthorized Corona “walks” +++
Hundreds of people protested against the state corona measures in the evening, according to the police in Saxon cities. Saxony’s Corona Emergency Ordinance currently only allows stationary rallies with a maximum of ten participants. This number was exceeded in all cases. The meetings must be stopped, demanded the Eastern Commissioner of the previous federal government, Marco Wanderwitz, on Twitter. “The fact that in Saxony in this corona situation, disturbed and right-wing extremists apparently” successfully “demonstrate the rule of law with public gatherings every day, causes serious damage.” According to a police spokeswoman in Freiberg, around 700 people took part in an unauthorized “Corona walk”. The attempt to address them early on and to dissolve the meeting had “not been fruitful”. The unregistered “walks” and actions were directed as far as possible out of the city center and proceeded quietly.
+++ 21:35 Germany helps Latvia with medical equipment +++
In the fight against the corona virus, Latvia, which has recently been severely affected by the latest wave of pandemics, has received German help. According to the German ambassador Christian Heldt, the last part of the medical equipment worth 2.5 million euros arrived in the Baltic EU country on Monday. This should support the Latvian health facilities in the Corona crisis, wrote the diplomat on Twitter, in addition to pictures of the handover to Health Minister Daniels Pavluts. The Latvian minister in turn thanked for the “generous support” in these difficult times. In Latvia, the corona situation worsened significantly in autumn. The government in Riga responded with a month-long lockdown until mid-November. This enabled the wave of infections to be broken. But there is still a threat of overloading the chronically underfunded health care system.
+++ 21:12 Six districts have incidence values of over 1500 +++
Even if the number of new infections is slightly below the previous week’s level for the first time in a long time, the fourth wave continues to rage. Especially in Saxony there is no relaxation in sight for the time being, that is shown by those of ntv.de evaluated country data. Accordingly, five of the six districts with a seven-day incidence of over 1500 are in Saxony. The sad leader is the Erzgebirgskreis, which exceeded the threshold of 2,000 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week (2073.4). Four other districts in Saxony are above the 1500 mark: the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains (1972), Bautzen (1732.8), the district of Leipzig (1673.5) and Görlitz (1554.5). In addition, the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg is above the 1500 mark with an incidence of 1637.2.
+++ 20:25 Current data: Federal states report 31,916 new infections +++
The number of reported coronavirus infections in Germany has risen to 5,807,810. As can be seen from the information from the state authorities evaluated by ntv.de, 31,916 new cases were added. That is 244 fewer new infections than on Monday a week ago. The number of deaths related to infection rose 163 to 101,057. Around 832,840 people are currently infected.
The infection rate (seven-day R value) is given by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) as 0.93 (previous day: 1.03). According to the DIVI intensive care register, 4599 Covid 19 patients are currently being treated in intensive care in Germany, 2356 of which are invasively ventilated. Around 3,181 intensive care beds are currently still available in the German clinics.
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