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MeIn the Sonneberg district in southern Thuringia, there have been more than 50 new corona infections for every 100,000 inhabitants in the past seven days. As of Sunday morning (10:00 a.m.), the value was 66.7 new infections, as announced by the district office spokesman, Michael Volk, at the request of the German Press Agency. By then, a total of 155 infections had been detected in the district and 60 people had already recovered. Around 56,000 people live in the Sonneberg district.
The value of 50 new confirmed infections per 100,000 inhabitants in one week is the limit value, which, if exceeded, will in future be subject to strict restrictions to contain the pandemic in the region in question.
Volk said of the situation in the Sonneberg district: “We will continue to monitor and examine the situation very critically and, if necessary, we will take tougher measures as part of the new regulation.”
A focus of infection is a hospital in Sonneberg. According to the clinic, which treated 21 Covid-19 patients on Friday, at least 20 workers were infected with the coronavirus. You are quarantined at your home, next week the 600 hospital employees will be evaluated. A temporary admission freeze was also decided on Friday night. The emergency room is not affected. The treatment of critical and life-threatening cases is guaranteed. But Volk also emphasized that there were new infections outside the hospital.
Rosenheim breaks the threshold a second time
In Thuringia, a new crown regulation will take effect next week, which also makes it easier to reduce restrictions. So far, the plans stipulate that municipalities should largely decide independently on further relaxation of crown restrictions.
A total of five places were known until Sunday afternoon when the limit was exceeded: in addition to Sonneburg, the Bavarian city of Rosenheim, the districts of Greiz in Thuringia, Coesfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia and Steinburg in Schleswig- Holstein.
The city of Rosenheim had already broken the limit on May 7, which the federal and state governments had set last Wednesday. The state office said the current increase in the number of cases can be explained by a serial test in an accommodation for asylum seekers. Sunday’s value was 50.5 new infections reported per 100,000 residents. In Coesfeld and Steinburg, the focus of infections is in meat factories; In Greiz, nursing homes and the elderly are particularly affected.
According to the RKI, a total of around 169,200 infections have been recorded in Germany since the outbreak of the disease (as of May 10, midnight). That’s about 667 more than the day before. An estimated 144,400 people have survived the infection, about 1,100 more than the day before.
According to estimates by the Robert Koch Institute on Saturday, the value of the number of reproductions was 1.10 (data from May 9 at midnight). The RKI has repeatedly emphasized that for the epidemic to decrease, the number of reproductions must be less than 1. In early May, the value was between 0.7 and 0.8 for several days according to RKI calculations. On Wednesday, the RKI gave the value at 0.65 (data status May 6, 00:00), since then it has continuously increased. The number of reproductions is somewhat uncertain, You can read more about this here.
