Dhe Robert Koch Institute (RKI) has reported a lower seven-day incidence than the previous day for the first time since the end of December – although the meaningfulness of the data is currently limited. The value was 1466.5 nationwide this Sunday morning. On Saturday it was 1474.3, on Sunday last week it was 1400.8. The incidence quantifies the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants over a period of seven days.
It is difficult to judge whether this indicates a plateau for the omicron wave and whether the rapid increase in infections in Germany has been slowed down. It could also be that the decline in incidence does not reflect the actual occurrence of infection, but is the result of an overloaded reporting and testing system. Among other things, it could also play a role that some people do not have positive self-tests or rapid tests clarified with a PCR test. They will then not appear in the statistics.
As the RKI announced, citing data from the health authorities, the number of new infections within 24 hours was 125,160 – after 209,789 on Saturday and 133,173 on Sunday last week.
As the RKI further announced, 58 other deaths in connection with the corona virus were also recorded. The total number of registered corona deaths in Germany is now 119,935.
According to the RKI, the health authorities have recorded a total of 12,344,661 cases of infection since the beginning of the pandemic. The RKI puts the number of people who have recovered from corona disease in Germany at around 8,737,000
FDP for early easing
Three days before the next prime ministers’ conference, FDP leader Christian Lindner called on the federal and state governments to comprehensively relax the corona virus. After the meeting on Wednesday, there must be a “noticeable difference in our everyday life,” Lindner told the “Bild am Sonntag”. “It is clear that you can be too bold when opening. However, this danger is now extremely manageable.”
According to the report, FDP parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr is still sticking to the lifting of all measures on March 19. He told the newspaper: “And so that this doesn’t happen all at once, we should already start to withdraw the first restrictions step by step.”
In view of the easing in other countries and the generally milder course of omicron diseases, there are also increasing calls for rapid relief in Germany.
Union gives compulsory vaccination no chance
The parliamentary manager of the Union faction, Thorsten Frei, sees no parliamentary majority for a general obligation to vaccinate. “Our approach is a preventive vaccination law that creates the conditions today for us to be able to react appropriately and flexibly to the challenges of the pandemic in autumn and winter.”
It is still open whether the applications for compulsory vaccination drawn up in the Bundestag can be debated in the coming week. The main author of the application for compulsory vaccination from 50, Andrew Ullmann (FDP) would like to present his draft in the coming week – but is against the originally planned first reading. “There were too many detailed questions unanswered for us to be able to present a good law earlier,” Ullmann told the newspaper. “There will not be a first reading with all the applications in the coming week. That wouldn’t be fair either. After all, the colleagues want to read the law thoroughly.”
The Greens in the Bundestag, on the other hand, see no reason to wait any longer. If the draft “is completed quickly, the way is clear for the first reading,” said parliamentary director Irene Mihalic of “Bild am Sonntag”.
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