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meFor the first time in Germany, more than 20,000 new coronavirus infections have been registered in a single day. German health authorities reported 21,506 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in 24 hours. This comes from the RKI information on Friday morning. As of Friday a week ago, the number of new infections reported was 18,681.
According to the RKI, a total of 619,089 people across Germany have been infected with Sars-CoV-2 since the beginning of the pandemic (until November 6 at 00:00). The number of deaths related to the virus rose 166 to a total of 11,096 as of Friday. The RKI estimates that around 402,500 people have recovered. According to the RKI situation report on Thursday night, the number of views, or the R-value for short, was 0.79 in Germany (previous day: 0.81). This means that ten infected people infect eight other people on average. If the value is less than 1 for a longer period of time, the infection rate decreases.
“But we must not chain the government”
The R value represents the infection rate approximately one and a half weeks earlier. To get to a controllable position, the number of plays would have to be well below 1 for a long time, 0.7 or even less. The RKI also gives a seven-day R call, which shows what happened 8 to 16 days ago. This value refers to a longer period of time and is therefore less subject to daily fluctuations. According to RKI estimates on Thursday, it is 0.93, also slightly below 1.
Meanwhile, FDP Vice President Wolfang Kubicki warned against breaking above the knee the specification of the Infection Protection Law planned by the coalition factions and passing it in parliament. To justify this, Kubicki said MDR “Aktuell” were the most massive restrictions on fundamental rights since the country was founded. The Bundestag wants to discuss a more precise legal basis for the far-reaching crown restrictions on Friday. The SPD and the Union aim to review the law, especially to better safeguard restrictions on fundamental rights. A corresponding decision could be made in mid-November.
The justices had doubted that the Infection Protection Act in its current form would justify far-reaching violations of fundamental rights in the fight against the crown pandemic. Calls for greater involvement by the Bundestag and state parliaments in decisions to combat the pandemic had recently increased. The vice-chairman of the union’s parliamentary group, Thorsten Frei, described the role of the Bundestag in the pandemic as “a balancing act.” It is important that parliament provides the framework for the measures, he told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. “But we are not allowed to chain the government.”
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According to a draft of the coalition factions, a new paragraph will be inserted in the law, which regulates special protection measures to combat the coronavirus. The steps that might be necessary are listed individually, such as contact restrictions and distance requirements or mask requirements in public spaces. Sven Rebehn, federal director of the German Association of Judges, described the clarification as the correct step. “Interferences in fundamental rights on the basis of a law that has been widely discussed and passed in parliament are also more likely to withstand review by the courts,” he told the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung.”
According to a poll, the majority of Germans (56 percent) consider the partial lockdown that has been in place since Monday to be generally appropriate. Sixteen percent said the new measures did not go far enough, and 24 percent of those surveyed said the measures went too far. That was the result of a voter poll conducted by infratest dimap for the ARD Germany trend this week.
The Education and Science Union (GEW) is pushing for stronger staff in schools during the corona pandemic. The dramatic shortage of teachers, particularly in elementary schools, makes it very difficult to implement meaningful concepts in schools, Ilka Hoffmann, a member of the school’s GEW board, told the “Rheinische Post” (Friday). “Therefore, among other things, students must be won to support schools for fees and take care of small groups under the instruction of teachers.”
As corona labs are increasingly unable to keep up with testing evaluation, FDP health politician Andrew Ullmann has suggested that corona tests also be tested in veterinary labs. “We should also use veterinary laboratories for testing,” he told the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung. The infectologist accused the federal government of having reacted too late to the crisis. “The systems should have become resilient in early summer.” It is only planned from week to week.
