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It is the highest value in five months: the Robert Koch Institute registered 2507 new cases of corona in one day. To contain the pandemic, districts are now calling for an upper limit nationwide for private parties.
The number of new corona virus infections in Germany has reached the highest level since April. Health authorities reported 2507 new corona infections in one day, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced. On Friday, the number of new cases reported was 2,153.
According to the RKI, at least 282,730 people in Germany have been shown to have been infected with the Sars-CoV-2 virus since the beginning of the Corona crisis. According to the RKI, the number of deaths related to a corona infection is 9,452. That is nine more than the day before. About 249,700 people survived the infection according to RKI estimates.
The rate of positive tests also increases
The peak of new infections reported daily was over 6,000 in late March / early April. Then the number tended to decline and rose again in July.
The rise in new infections can be partly explained by the fact that more tests have been done in recent months than before. However, an indication that the infection status is recovering again regardless of the number of tests is that a higher proportion of corona tests were positive. According to RKI’s management report, the so-called positive rate was 1.19 percent in the week of September 14-20 (previous week: 0.86). That is the highest value in more than ten weeks.
Counties want to limit private celebrations
To curb the spread of the corona virus, the Association of German Districts is now calling for a national upper limit of fewer than 50 people at private parties. “From 50 participants, it becomes logistically extremely difficult to trace the contacts if there was a Covid-positive between the company,” said President of the district council Reinhard Sager from the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”.
So far, there has been no uniform number of participants for private celebrations, but this should happen at the meeting between the federal and state governments next week, Sager said. “We see in Hamm what a luxurious wedding with 150 guests can lead to,” said the CDU politician in view of a large wedding celebration in the city of North Rhine-Westphalia, which is the starting point of many infections.
Lithuania tightened the rules for travelers from Germany
Meanwhile, foreign authorities are monitoring the infection process in Germany more critically. The Lithuanian Ministry of Health decided that travelers from Germany will be forced to self-quarantine from Monday. Upon arrival in the Baltic state, new arrivals and returnees are required to isolate themselves for two weeks. According to the Lithuanian government, the quarantine obligation will also be introduced for travelers from Estonia, Poland, Iceland and San Marino. The reason for this is the high number of new infections in the affected countries.
A limit of 25 new corona infections in the respective country of departure per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days applies to the quarantine obligation. In the other two Baltic states, Estonia and Latvia, the limit is 16 cases; There too, travelers from Germany have to go into quarantine for 14 days.
Intensive care doctors fear more deaths from corona
Due to the increasing number of cases in Germany, intensive care doctors expect the number of deaths from corona to grow faster as well. “The number of deaths will continue to rise in the coming weeks,” Uwe Janssens, president of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (Divi), told the newspapers of the Funke media group. The currently rising number of deaths from Covid 19 reflects the infection events of the past weeks with a delay.
It usually takes 10 to 14 days from initial infection to severe illness, and the average time in the intensive care unit is 21 to 24 days. It follows that many people who are now dying were infected more than five weeks ago, Janssens says. In recent days, the number of deaths reported by the RKI in relation to a corona infection had been in the double-digit range several times in a row.
However, Janssens does not anticipate such a dramatic development as in the spring: “Intensive care physicians today know much more about successful treatment options and can intervene more specifically with medications.” In addition, those responsible have learned to better protect especially vulnerable groups, such as the elderly and the sick.
