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Status: 04/10/2022 04:13 a.m
According to the RKI, the nationwide seven-day incidence of new corona infections is 1097.9. dropped. Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Kretschmann has criticized the lack of leadership on the subject of compulsory vaccination. All developments in the live blog.
4:13 a.m
RKI reports 55,471 new infections within 24 hours
The nationwide seven-day incidence of new corona infections has fallen further. As the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has announced that the value is now 1097.9. The day before it was 1141.8, a week ago it was 1457.9. The value quantifies the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of seven days.
As the RKI announced, citing data from the health authorities, the number of new infections reported within 24 hours was 55,471 today – after 150,675 the day before and 74,053 new infections a week ago. The total number of registered cases of infection in Germany since the beginning of the corona pandemic has increased to 22,647,197. According to the RKI, 36 other deaths related to the corona virus were also registered within 24 hours. The total number of recorded corona deaths in Germany rose to 131,715.
As a rule, fewer cases are reported at the weekend, partly because fewer tests are carried out.
4:13 a.m
Kretschmann criticizes the lack of leadership in compulsory vaccination
After the failure of a compulsory corona vaccination, Baden-Württemberg’s Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann criticized the federal government around Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “Obviously there was a lack of leadership,” the Green politician told the Berlin “Tagesspiegel”. Kretschmann and Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) had already pushed for the introduction of compulsory vaccination in November. “That would have been the right time, but politics has not used this momentum,” criticized the head of government, without naming Scholz. “Then the vaccination requirement was talked down and in the end it failed, even though there is a majority for it in Parliament.”
The compromise supported by Scholz and Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach (SPD) for compulsory vaccination from the age of 60 fell through in the Bundestag on Thursday – most members of the co-governing FDP also voted against it in the vote without group specifications. The government had not submitted its own draft.