D.he health authorities in Germany have reported more new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute than ever since the beginning of the pandemic. They transmitted 39,676 new cases within one day, according to RKI figures from this Wednesday morning. The previous high was reported on Friday at 37,120 (previous week: 20,398).
According to the RKI, the seven-day incidence nationwide is 232.1. It has thus reached a peak for the third day in a row. Last Monday (201.1) and Tuesday (213.7) there were records for the daily incidences reported by the RKI. A week ago the value was 146.6, a month ago it was 66.1.
20 percent more deaths than a week ago
According to the new information, 236 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours. A week ago there were 194 deaths. The number of people who died with or with a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 96,963.
The RKI has counted 4,844,054 detected infections with the Sars-CoV-2 virus since the beginning of the pandemic. The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections are not detected. The RKI stated the number of those who had recovered at 4,415,900.
The number of corona patients admitted to clinics per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days – the most important parameter for a possible tightening of the corona restrictions – was given by the RKI on Tuesday at 4.31 (Monday: 3.93). With the indicator it must be taken into account that hospital admissions are sometimes reported with delay.
A nationwide threshold value from when the situation can be viewed critically is not provided for the incidence of hospitalization, among other things because of large regional differences. The previous high was around 15.5 around Christmas time.
OPs will have to be postponed
The intensive care doctor Christian Karagiannidis reckons that hospitals will increasingly restrict regular operations again because of the worsening situation. “We will hardly be able to avoid it,” said the scientific director of the intensive care register of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) on Tuesday evening in the ARD “Tagesthemen”. He referred this particularly to badly affected federal states such as Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia.
Restricting regular operations means “that we really postpone operations that can be postponed because they are not life-threatening or because they are not tumors and redeploy the staff within the hospital,” said Karagiannidis. The Berlin Charité University Medicine has been canceling all planned interventions since Tuesday in order to deploy employees more intensively in Covid-19 wards.
Karagiannidis explained that about ten percent of intensive care beds in Germany are currently still free. That is relatively little, because an intensive care unit consists of an average of twelve beds – and therefore usually only one bed is free “for all emergencies that are not just Covid”. “And at the moment when we regionally drop below five percent free beds, we are in principle no longer able to act in the clinics. And that will overtake us relatively quickly in the next few weeks and, above all, months, at least in the hotspots that we have now – Bavaria, Saxony and Thuringia. “
In order to curb the current increase in the number of cases, Karagiannidis called for “2-G and 3-G in the workplace”. It was seen in the European area that this had an effect on the first vaccination rate. He also spoke out in favor of booster vaccinations, initially for the elderly, but then also for the younger ones.
The virologist Christian Drosten expects “a very stressful winter” and also believes that new contact restrictions are conceivable. “We now have a real emergency situation at the moment,” said the head of virology in the Berlin Charité in view of the situation in the intensive care units in the NDR podcast “The Coronavirus Update”. “We have to do something now.” More booster vaccinations are important.
Klingbeil: More controls in gastronomy
The designated SPD boss Lars Klingbeil is for more corona controls, especially in the catering trade. “Yes, I am in favor of the controls being sharpened, especially in the catering sector. It must be clear: Anyone who does not adhere to the checking of the 3-G or 2-G certificates as the operator must feel the consequences. The catering industry harms itself if it does not adhere to the existing rules, ”said Klingbeil of the Rheinische Post newspaper.
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