The number of registered new corona infections in the Rottal-Inn district continues to rise massively. Today the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reports a seven-day incidence of 1,104 for the district in southern Lower Bavaria. This is the highest incidence ever calculated in all of Germany.
Highest incidence value in Germany
Rottal-Inn is now number one in the list of counties and cities with the highest incidence values in Germany. Since yesterday alone, 434 new cases have been reported, the district office announced.
According to the latest available figures, over 40 corona patients are treated in the Rottal Inn clinics. Ten of them are currently in the intensive care unit – seven have to be ventilated invasively, reports the Divi intensive care registry today. In the responsible control center area in Passau, the utilization of the available intensive care beds is 90.2 percent.
As a result, visits to the Rottal Inn clinics have again been banned on Tuesday. Exceptions are only possible for births and those accompanying the dying.
District Office asks Bundeswehr for support
“There is still a diffuse infection process,” says Mathias Kempf, the spokesman for the district office in Pfarrkirchen. A major outbreak is not responsible for the cases, but mainly small clusters, such as school classes and small celebrations such as birthdays.
The biggest problem for the authority is currently that the contact tracing has stalled for a few days, the spokesman said. The district has therefore applied for support from the Bundeswehr. Until then, the authority must prioritize contact tracking and first inform vulnerable groups and larger clusters about active cases. All other sick people currently have to inform their contacts themselves. For the time being, they will not receive a quarantine order from the district office. “It is to be feared that not all of these contact persons will also go into quarantine,” says spokesman Mathias Kempf.
Very low vaccination rate in the Rottal-Inn district
The vaccination rate in the Rottal-Inn district is also noticeably low: According to the district office, 53.2 percent of all citizens in the district are currently fully vaccinated. This means that the vaccination rate is well below the Bavarian average. “That is of course a relatively poor vaccination rate,” admits the press spokesman. However, he assumes that citizens of the district may also have been vaccinated at their workplaces in other districts. These do not appear in the statistics. It should also be borne in mind that the seven-day incidences are also high in the surrounding districts, according to the district office.
“But of course, after a year and a half of the pandemic, people are also crumbling and in one place or another the caution may have waned.” Mathias Kempf, District Office Rottal-Inn
Lower Bavaria severely affected by Corona
All other regions in Lower Bavaria are also severely affected by corona outbreaks and thus hotspots. In third place in the Germany-wide negative table is the next Lower Bavarian district: Dingolfing-Landau. According to the RKI, 895 people have been infected with Covid-19 in the past seven days per 100,000 inhabitants. The district of Regen has the fifth worst value in Germany, with an incidence of 868.
Only the city of Landshut in the Lower Bavaria district is still below an incidence of 400.
Hotspots – currently without any special measures
Since the red light measures apply throughout Bavaria, the high incidences in Lower Bavaria currently have no explicit effects. In the district of Regen, the district administrator there wants to inform about the Corona situation on site this afternoon.