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More and more cities in Germany are exceeding the critical limit of 50 corona infections per day. Now, the city of Baesweiler has reported 321 new infections and is considered a risk area.
The city of Baesweiler in North Rhine-Westphalia near Aachen is a particularly strong corona hotspot: there are 321 new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants in a week, as the Aachen city region announced on Thursday. In the city of 28,000 inhabitants, 92 people have currently been shown to be infected with the virus.
Across the Aachen city region, the so-called seven-day incidence is 127. In several other areas of North Rhine-Westphalia, the high threshold of 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in one week has been exceeded.
Many cities in North Rhine-Westphalia clearly exceed the limit values
“The cause is essentially family celebrations,” said Baesweiler Mayor Willi Linkens (CDU), the German press agency. Additionally, several people were infected at a funeral in another city and later infected family members at their home in Baesweiler.
At the national level, almost a third of all the districts and cities registered by the RKI recently exceeded the threshold of 50 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week (data as of October 21), after which more stringent protection measures are applied against infections in many places. In around 30 districts and cities, the value was even higher than 100.
