Live blog
Status: 08/25/2021 4:19 a.m.
The RKI reported 11,561 new infections in the morning. The seven-day incidence rose to 61.3. The FDP and the Greens are in favor of an end to the pandemic emergency. All developments in the live blog.
04:19 am
RKI reports 11,561 new infections – the incidence is 61.3
The seven-day incidence has risen again. According to the Robert Koch Institute in the morning, it was 61.3 – the previous day the value was 58.0, and a week ago it was 40.8. The health authorities in Germany reported 11,561 new corona infections to the RKI within one day. A week ago, the value for Germany was 8,324 infections. According to the new information, 39 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours. A week ago there were 22 deaths. The RKI has counted 3,889,173 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic.
04:19 am
FDP and Greens against continuation of the pandemic emergency
The FDP and the Greens consider an extension of the pandemic emergency to be unconstitutional and want to vote against it in the Bundestag today. “When we asked, the federal government was not even able to convincingly demonstrate to us that the health system is likely to be overburdened,” said FDP party vice-president Wolfgang Kubicki to the editorial network in Germany. But this is the mandatory legal requirement for the extension of this emergency. Green parliamentary leader Katrin Göring-Eckhardt also sees the vaccines no longer providing a basis for an extension. “We now need a regulation that fits the new situation and takes into account the number of people vaccinated, no business as usual”. The Basic Law sets restrictions on freedom within a narrow framework. They therefore consider an unchanged prolongation of the epidemic situation to be wrong.