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reThe coronavirus continues to spread in Germany. For the first time since mid-April, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reports more than 5,000 new infections in Germany in 24 hours. The exact value was 5132 confirmed infections. The day before there were 4,122. This brings the total number of confirmed cases in 24 hours to 334,585.
The RKI recorded an increase in deaths from 13 the day before to 40. Thus, the total number of deaths increased to 9,677.
The previous high point in the number of new infections reported daily was in early April with more than 6,000. The number of cases decreased in the following months. There has been an increase again since July.
Dispute over crown measurements
This Wednesday, Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) wants to discuss the situation in Corona with the country’s leaders. There is still a dispute over measures to prevent the spread of the virus. The focus of the debate is the accommodation bans for travelers within Germany and the inconsistency of the regulations issued by the individual federal states.
Leading representatives of the medical profession also joined several prime ministers’ criticism of accommodation bans for travelers leaving a corona risk zone in other federal states. The president of the German Medical Association, Klaus Reinhardt, called for the lifting of these bans issued by some federal states.
These are “superfluous and even harmful,” said Reinhardt of the “Rheinische Post” in Düsseldorf on Wednesday. Even during the intense German domestic tourist traffic in the summer with crowded beaches in the North and Baltic seas, there was no “significant increase in the number of infections”. People are restless and confused by the different and poorly communicated measures. “That certainly does not contribute to a greater acceptance of the anti-crown policy by the federal and state governments,” warned the medical president.
The director of the National Association of Compulsory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, expressed a similar opinion: “Everyone can see that the new measures such as the accommodation ban are nonsense,” he told the “Bild” newspaper. “In this way we are risking the absolutely necessary acceptance of the measures that are still important.”
In deliberations on Wednesday afternoon, the heads of the federal and state governments want to try to agree more uniform regulations. However, the positions of the federal states, for example on the prohibition of accommodation, diverged beforehand. For example, the Prime Minister of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Manuela Schwesig (SPD), refused to relax the strict accommodation restrictions in her state, while the Mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller (SPD), harshly criticized the travel restrictions. .
Meanwhile, Green Party leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt attacked the Chancellor’s crisis management. “It is absolutely negligent that the federal government has not yet coordinated any clear national guidance and understandable concepts,” he told the “Rheinische Post.” The Green politician called it “urgently necessary” that Merkel “finally makes the coordination of the measures for the fall of the Crown a matter of the bosses.”
The Association of Towns and Municipalities advocated for a uniform “Corona traffic light” nationwide. This would have to define limit values, if exceeded, the restrictions would take effect, said CEO Gerd Landsberg of media group Funke. If the limit of 50 new infections in a circle is exceeded, “the traffic light jumps to red and private events with more than 25 people are prohibited.”
