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SThe second wave in the capital already exceeds the first, at least in terms of the number of new infections. With 378 cases, health authorities recorded more daily corona infections than ever on Wednesday.
The number of new infections per 100,000 residents in the past seven days rose to 47.2 on Wednesday, according to the Senate Health Department management report, just below the 50 mark. The previous day the value was of 44.2. Five of the twelve districts have already passed this threshold. The favorite is Neukölln (95.5), followed by Mitte (70.5), Tempelhof-Schöneberg (65.5) and Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg (58.2). Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is now just above the 50.6 limit.
The rest of the republic is stunned by the late reaction of the red-red-green state government to the second wave. “Berlin is becoming a health risk for the entire republic,” CDU general secretary Paul Ziemiak told “Spiegel.” “While the number of infections in the capital skyrockets, the Berlin Senate and the responsible authorities are completely at random.”
On Saturday, Berlin celebrated the “Club Culture Day”
In the middle of the second wave, Berlin organized last Saturday the “Day of the Culture of Clubs” and summoned to a celebration. “This is the height of irresponsibility,” Ziemiak said. In fact, dozens of clubs opened additional open spaces on this day or toured the city with a small rave, depending on the concept, in compliance with hygiene regulations and under the patronage of Culture Senator Klaus Lederer (Linke).
Berlin has “a glaring enforcement problem,” Ziemiak said. “If this city does not immediately ban illegal crown parties in parks and large weddings and consistently enforce the mask requirement, the number of infections will continue to rise,” the CDU politician warned.
CSU Secretary General Markus Blume also held the state government accountable. Compliance with the crown’s rules had not been verified in recent weeks. “The red-red-green Senate of the capital is not up to the task. The inability of the Senate becomes a risk for all of Germany, ”said Blume.
Müller lost the long distance duel against Söder
Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) previously faced a private duel with government mayor Michael Müller (SPD). One could only “urgently advise” Berlin to take stricter measures, Söder said on Tuesday before the Berlin Senate meeting. “I am expressly concerned about the situation in Berlin. I’m afraid this is about to become unmanageable, ”the CSU chief continued.
“Nobody has the right to point the finger at others,” Müller responded after the Senate meeting. In recent weeks he had not issued a travel warning to the citizens of Berlin for Bavaria, “because you cannot be sure how the test results are obtained there and whether or not they will be wasted over the course of the weeks”, Müller said. He was referring to a failure in the transmission of test results in the Free State.
Müller is currently chairing the Prime Minister’s Conference and is fighting in Berlin for a place as a direct candidate for the upcoming federal elections. A success would have been good for him, but his peak is gone. On Wednesday noon, Söder announced a ban on accommodation for travelers from risk areas, explicitly also for travelers from particularly affected districts of Berlin.
Shortly thereafter, other countries followed suit in a conference of change with Foreign Minister Helge Braun. In Schleswig-Holstein and Rhineland-Palatinate, there was already a 14-day quarantine obligation for visitors from risk areas in the interior of Germany. For many families, this means that the autumn holidays, which start at the weekend in the capital, disappear.
There has been a curfew in Berlin since 1949
To combat the pandemic, the Berlin Senate decided on stricter crown measures on Tuesday. Only a maximum of five people or groups of two households can stay outdoors at night. There is a curfew between 11 pm and 6 am The popular Spätis, spacious kiosks, often with seats, have to close, gas stations cannot sell alcohol.
As early as May, the Senate allowed restaurants to open on a limited basis between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. But because this took place as part of the relaxation after the first wave and restaurants were always allowed to offer “for carry, “the first” real “curfew since its abolition in 1949 will apply again in the city on Saturday.
Health Senator Dilek Kalayci (SPD) defended the measures on Wednesday on “RBB-Inforadio.” “This is the nightlife in Berlin that has caused us problems in recent days and weeks,” Kalayci said. But overall, the message is also: the time to socialize is over. The situation in Berlin is serious, ”said the senator. The measures are initially limited to the end of October.
“The death sentence for bars,” says a stage presenter
In the city, however, its effectiveness was questioned even before the curfew went into effect. The chairman of the Berlin FDP parliamentary group, Sebastian Czaja, said further tougher would be pointless if the Senate could not enforce the crown’s measures. Kai Wegner, president of the CDU in the capital, called to focus operations against “groups of people who celebrate wildly and do not keep their distance.”
“Regulations will be of no use if left unchecked,” the managing director of the Berlin hotel and restaurant association Dehoga, Thomas Lengfelder, told the economic committee of the Berlin House of Representatives on Wednesday. The previous regulations were barely verified and the violations were not sanctioned.
The curfew also affects exemplary companies, Lengfelder said. He fears that the meetings will now move to apartments. The co-founder of a scene bars initiative, Roberto Manteufel, immediately spoke of the “death sentence for bars.” “I am at a loss for words with anger and indignation,” he told the committee. The operators felt “betrayed and scammed.”
Green politician rejects Bundeswehr aid
Control is a problem especially in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district. Mayor Monika Herrmann (Greens) rejects the use of Bundeswehr soldiers in the health department. In all other districts, uniformed officers help with tests and identify contact persons.
“When it comes to following up on contacts, the district office relies on mid-term staff increases rather than short-term external support,” Herrmann said. Several federal politicians, including Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Health Minister Jens Spahn (both CDUs), had criticized green politics for its blockade. Björn Böning (SPD), who was still head of the Senate Chancellery until 2018, was also surprised.
Use of intensive care beds in the green zone
Berlin tries to record the infection process using a traffic light system. In addition to the number of new infections, this also includes the 4-day R-value and intensive care bed occupancy. The R-value fell to 1.13 on Wednesday, the corresponding crown traffic light turned yellow again. The traffic light of the situation in hospitals is still green: 3.3 percent of all intensive care beds are occupied by Covid 19 patients. This traffic light jumps to yellow at 15 percent load and to red at 25 percent. hundred.
So far, four people have died in Berlin in October or with Covid-19, two in September and three in August. In July there were nine deaths per corona, in June there were 16 people, in May 49, in April 134 people and in March 15.
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