After Stuttgart and Esslingen, Mainz is now also a Corona hotspot | News | Current

It is seething in the larger cities in the southwest: the corona virus is spreading there at breakneck speed at the moment. After two hotspots in Baden-Württemberg, a new one has now also emerged in Rhineland-Palatinate.

In Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, the number of corona hotspots continues to rise. There are now several urban and rural districts in both federal states in which the seven-day incidence is over 50. From this value, the cities and districts must introduce new restrictions.

At the moment, the city of Stuttgart in Baden-Württemberg has a seven-day incidence of 55.8 (as of October 11, 2020) and the Esslingen district (74.4; as of October 11, 2020).

In Rhineland-Palatinate, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days in Mainz was over 50. The Rhineland-Palatinate capital is thus the third hotspot in the state.

In addition to Mainz (57; as of October 11, 2020), the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm (68; as of October 11, 2020) and the Neuwied district (50; as of October 11, 2020) have passed the critical 50 mark.

Overview: This is the situation in the cities and districts in SWR3-Land

In Stuttgart there is a mask requirement from Wednesday

The situation in Stuttgart is so tense that the city has even asked the Bundeswehr for help. The soldiers should help to trace the contacts of the newly infected. Because the seven-day incidence has risen to over 50, the city administration is no longer able to check all contacts without outside help.

In addition, the corona measures are being tightened. In the city center, mouth and nose protection is mandatory from Wednesday. The sale of alcohol is to be prohibited in certain places from 9 p.m. and consumption from 11 p.m.

According to the city, these restrictions apply for two weeks. At private celebrations, only ten participants are allowed, in public and rented rooms 25, said a spokesman for the city. Illegal parties should be prevented by more controls.

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In Rhineland-Palatinate, the “Corona warning and action plan” takes effect

If a county exceeds certain limit values ​​for the seven-day frequency, the municipalities are obliged to take action. In Rhineland-Palatinate, the state’s “Corona warning and action plan” is in place.

In municipalities with more than 20 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week should therefore in the future Controls and public relations tightened will.

The so-called increases Incidence value over 35, set up the municipality and the state authorities involved in fighting pandemics Taskforce one. The advises on quick countermeasures, such as stricter masquerade requirements or Limitations on the maximum number of participants at events and celebrations.

Municipalities with a Incidence value greater than 50 examine far-reaching restrictions on public life. For example new contact bans belong or return to Lessons with smaller classes.

No blanket solutions

Whether and which measures are actually taken depends entirely on the specific situation on site. If the infection process can be limited to a certain group of people, other measures can be taken than if the infection cannot be narrowed down.

“There is no automatism,” said the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer (SPD) when the warning and action plan was introduced at the end of September.

Chancellor and city mayor adopt new rules

Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) met with the town hall chiefs of the eleven largest German cities in a video conference last week to talk to them about the situation in the metropolitan areas. The mayors and mayors of Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Munich, Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen, Leipzig and Stuttgart took part in the video conference.

Merkel and the town hall chiefs decided, among other things, that the rules should be tightened again when the critical limits are reached. Among other things, curfew should be imposed and the wearing of mouth and nose protection in public will be compulsory.

The number of participants at public events or private celebrations should then be massively reduced again. In addition, the Bundeswehr and the Robert Koch Institute are to send experts to Corona hotspots in the future.

Big cities in particular are fighting against Corona

At the moment, the big cities in particular are affected by the corona pandemic. More and more hotspots are forming here. But municipalities with fewer inhabitants are also affected. Bavaria has therefore massively expanded the list of inner-German risk areas.

Since Saturday, the classification has been in effect not only for Berlin or Frankfurt am Main but also for the smaller cities of Offenbach in Hesse and for the cities of Herne, Hamm and Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia. This was announced by a spokesman for the Bavarian Ministry of Health.

Overview: This is what the corona numbers look like in Germany

Ban on accommodation for tourists from risk areas

In most federal states there is now a ban on accommodation for people from risk areas. The federal and state governments agreed that citizens from places with very high numbers of corona infections may only be accommodated when traveling within Germany if they can present a negative corona test that is no more than 48 hours old. The decisive factor here is the seven-day incidence – it must be over 50 for the ban on accommodation.

Criticism of the ban on accommodation is getting louder

Many politicians are now calling for the decision to be repealed. Berlin’s Governing Mayor Michael Müller (SPD) and NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU) want to talk about it on Wednesday at the Prime Minister’s Conference.

The President of the German Association of Cities, Leipzig’s Lord Mayor Burkhard Jung, finds the rules “not well thought out” and says: “We will have to take another look”. Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier (CDU) promised additional help at least to restaurateurs and hoteliers who suffer losses due to the restrictions.

Overview: These are the Germany-wide Corona hotspots

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