Status: December 15, 2020 12:38 p.m.
According to the Hamburg social authority, 279 new corona cases were registered on Tuesday. That’s 2 less than a week ago and 24 less than Monday.
The number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in one week fell slightly to 138.3. According to the social authorities, a total of 29,994 people in Hamburg have tested positive for the corona virus since the pandemic began. According to estimates by the Robert Koch Institute, around 22,400 of these can now be regarded as recovered.
According to Senate spokesman Marcel Schweitzer, there is an increase in new infections, especially among people over the age of 70. That is “worrying”. At the state press conference on Tuesday, he announced a government statement by Mayor Peter Tschentscher (SPD) on the corona situation in the citizenship on Wednesday.
More than 440 people in the hospital
According to the information, 441 corona patients are being treated in the hospitals of the Hanseatic city, 93 of them are in intensive care units.
The number of people who died from the coronavirus in Hamburg is 405, according to the Institute for Forensic Medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. This number is not updated daily, but reported as a bundle after the autopsies.
Telephone hotline for questions about the coronavirus
General questions about the coronavirus are answered on the telephone hotline 040/428 284 000. If flu-like symptoms occur in connection with contact with sick people, the family doctor or the doctor on 116117 should be contacted by telephone.
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