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As the epidemic accelerates, the number of infections detected by the test will double in just seven days, and the number of people needing intensive hospital treatment will double in ten days, Chancellor Angela Merkel said after a discussion with provincial heads of government.
Stopping the process requires a “joint effort” to “get rid of exponential (explosive) growth,” he stressed.
In 75 percent of cases, it is not known how the infection occurred, so it is necessary to reduce the risk of widespread transmission of the virus, the chancellor said.
The restrictions are designed to avoid an “acute health emergency”. To do this, care must be taken to ensure that local health authorities involved in contact investigation can rediscover and break the chains of infection. If the virus’s pathways cannot be followed, it will spread uncontrollably, quickly leading to serious consequences, including saturation of intensive care units and drug shortages, Angela Merkel said.
The health authorities can detect all the chains of infections if the number of infections screened in the previous seven days for every one hundred thousand inhabitants is less than 50. This status must be reached again, explained the chancellor.
According to the latest Robert Koch National Institute of Public Health (RKI) data from Tuesday, this indicator, also known as the seven-day incidence (infection frequency), is 87. A week earlier, on October 20, it was 48.6 , a month before, on September 27. and I stayed at 13.4.
Angela Merkel emphasized in a briefing held jointly by the Provincial Conference of Heads of Government – the so-called Prime Ministers Conference (MPC) – and federal government leaders that “proportionate and politically acceptable” epidemic mitigation measures had been agreed in all the country. they are valid.
Among other things, it sought to compensate companies and other organizations affected by restrictions, such as theaters or sports associations, for 75 percent of the loss of income. For companies with more than 50 employees, the level of compensation is in line with EU rules on state aid to companies. Ten billion euros (HUF 3,670 billion) will be spent on the program.
In this regard, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder, current MPC vice president, stressed that they provide exceptionally “generous” support to those affected by the new restrictions. He added that people are more cautious from the beginning due to the intensification of the epidemic, so it is not at all true that full-blown cinemas, restaurants or hotels should be suspended for four weeks.
However, the restrictions are still very severe, but you cannot wait any longer with them. The consistent implementation of “four-week therapy”, on the other hand, could provide a “good foundation” for Germany to survive the winter amid the pandemic.
Mayor Michael Müller of Berlin, the head of government of the provincial capital, the president of the MPK stressed that “every day matters.” Keeping schools and kindergartens running is also paramount because their closure would lead to “dramatic social consequences,” such as a bite from domestic violence, he said.
According to the regulations in force from November 2 to November 30, they are members of a maximum of two households and a maximum of ten people can stay together in a private or public area. Restaurants can only cook take out food. In addition to cultural institutions, tourism is almost completely stopped and hotels can only accommodate business guests. They also freeze the institutional system of amateur sport. New restrictions are being introduced in many other areas of the service sector, for example, in addition to hairdressers and physiotherapists, all service providers take forced breaks whose work requires a direct physical connection with the client or guest. In retail, a new rule is that one customer for every ten square meters can be in the retail space.
According to RKI data on Wednesday, 14,964 infections have been recorded in Germany in the last 24 hours. This is a new record and almost double the 7595 from a week earlier.
Since the outbreak, the pathogen has been detected in 464,239 people.
The number of deaths associated with the disease caused by the virus (Covid-19) increased by 85 in one day to 10,183.
The seven-day moving average of the virus’s so-called reproduction rate (R) is 1.21, according to the latest Tuesday data from the RKI. This means that for every 100 people infected, they transmit the pathogen on average to 121 more people.
The number of people treated in the intensive care unit for Covid-19 disease increased by 108 in one day, to 1,470, according to the latter, also on Tuesday. About 45 percent of them (666 people) need mechanical ventilation. These data indicate that only 5 percent of the roughly 30,000 intensive care beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients. At the same time, their number is increasing rapidly, almost six hundred from 879 the previous Tuesday.
In France, there will be a general quarantine again from Friday, but schools will remain open
In France, the general quarantine will re-enter into force on Friday to curb the growing spread of the coronavirus epidemic: ban on leaving everyone, closure of shops and non-essential service units, continuing online education, but nurseries, gardens childhood, schools and elementary schools open. Emmanuel Macron announced.
The French president said in a live televised speech Wednesday night that the restrictions will remain in effect until at least Dec. 1.
Emmanuel Macron emphasized that if the government does not reintroduce strict exit restrictions, 400,000 could die from a coronavirus infection within a few months.
“France would never choose a strategy based on patient selection, as the main victims of the pandemic are the elderly,” he said.
The president indicated that it will be allowed to go to work, but working from home will once again be the norm.
Visits to nursing homes will not be banned and the number of hospital intensive care units will be increased from the current 5,800 to 10,000. The government expects the number of seriously ill patients to rise from the current 3,000 to 9,000 in two weeks.
MTI
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