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A record of 7,334 people diagnosed in a single day
According to data released by the Robert Koch Institute on Oct. 16, 7,734 newly diagnosed patients were added in one day, setting a new record for single-day diagnoses. The cumulative number of people infected with the virus in Germany has exceeded 348,000, and the death toll has reached 9,734, an increase of 24 people from the previous day.
The number of confirmed cases of the Communist Party of China virus (Wuhan pneumonia) currently receiving treatment in hospitals has also risen significantly. Robert Koch Institute records show that 655 confirmed patients were treated in the intensive care unit on Thursday, of which 329 required fans. . A week ago, 487 patients were treated in the intensive care unit, and 239 of them required ventilators.
The experts also pointed out that the current number of infected cases cannot be fully compared to that of earlier this year, because now the proportion of tests has increased considerably, so the number of confirmed cases has increased accordingly.
In recent days, the number of confirmed cases in Germany has broken new records every day: 6,638 on Thursday, which is the highest record since the outbreak. At the end of March this year, 6,294 confirmed cases in a single day was the highest record. After that, the epidemic gradually slowed and the lowest record was less than 200 people. When the summer tourist season began, the epidemic began to escalate again in July.
Several federal states revoked the “night ban” in the territory
In view of the rapid increase in the number of infections, most federal states passed an “overnight ban” on October 7: when traveling overnight in the country, tourists from severely affected areas must present a proof certificate that does not exceed 48 hours.
This provision is extremely controversial, and it is also an issue that Merkel and the governors did not discuss at Wednesday’s summit. At the time, the politicians reached an agreement to keep this provision for now and wait until the end of the fall break before discussing it on November 8.
However, as soon as the summit ended, several federal states repealed this rule the next day. The administrative courts of Baden and Lower Saxony respectively ruled on Thursday that the ban is illegal. Saxony and Saarland have canceled this rule at all.
The governor of Bavaria, Soder, expressed his reservations about the night ban. He said on a talk show on TV 1 Thursday night that these restrictions “are not the most important to combat the epidemic, and now we will remove them.” He said the premise is that people abide by the newly announced epidemic prevention measures.
On Friday, the director of the Bavarian state government, Florian Herrmann, announced that the night ban will expire in the state on the 16th and will not be extended.
According to media reports, the Shihe State Higher Administrative Court made the decision on Thursday evening to dismiss an emergency lawsuit filed by a family from North Rhine-Westphalia. This person from the hot spot of the epidemic originally planned to take a vacation on the north island of Shihe prefecture this Friday (16).
The judge said that if the overnight ban is not enforced, residents of other hot spots of the German epidemic may go to the Shihe state on vacations without control. In view of the current rapidly spreading epidemic, this poses a threat to the local public health department. Furthermore, the current spread of viruses is often “undetected and difficult to control.”
Epidemic hot spots rise to 70, neighboring countries are listed as dangerous tourist spots
If there are more than 50 new cases of virus infection in a given area of 100,000 residents in a week, the area is a hot spot. As of this Friday, the number of hot spots in Germany has rapidly increased to 70. Berlin’s Neukölln district even reached 170, making it the most serious hot spot in Germany.
Due to the rapid spread of the epidemic, the local health department has clearly felt powerless and it is becoming increasingly difficult to trace the route of infection. About 70% of cases cannot find the source of infection. Local medical personnel compared the epidemic in the area to wildfires, saying there was not just one fire source, but multiple hot spots – not a dozen, but hundreds.
Although the epidemic in Germany is developing rapidly, the situation in other European countries is even worse. Russia, Spain and other countries have confirmed more than 10,000 cases in a single day in recent days, France announced on Thursday more than 30,000 confirmed cases and about 20,000 in the United Kingdom.
At present, the German government has listed the Netherlands, France, and parts of Italy and Poland as dangerous places for tourism. The Robert Koch Institute also classified Malta, Slovakia and parts of nine European Union countries, including Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Croatia, Portugal, Slovenia and Hungary as dangerous locations.
A television channel reported that by this Saturday (17), the nine neighboring countries of Germany have become a dangerous epidemic. The EU regulations on places where the epidemic is dangerous are the same as those in Germany: out of every 100,000 residents, if there are more than 50 new infections in a week, the place is classified as a dangerous place. #
Editor in charge: Wang Yixiao
