Saturday February 29, 2020
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The number of people infected with the corona virus in Germany is increasing. In a day care center in the Heinsberg district, four children are infected with the novel pathogen. One of her educators is being treated in a clinic for Covid-19 lung disease.
Infection with the novel corona virus has been detected in four children in North Rhine-Westphalia. They go to the daycare center in the district of Heinsberg, where a woman with Covid-19 works as an educator. This was announced by the district of Heinsberg.
All four affected are doing well, it said. The children showed “at most mild cold symptoms,” said a spokeswoman. A total of 114 children attend the day care center. Around 100 boys and girls took the test, with four finding positive. The other around 14 children had not appeared on the voluntary test according to current knowledge.
Overall, the number of people who have been proven to be infected with the pathogen Sars-CoV-2 in the Heinsberg district has now increased to 60. All people who have had direct contact with an infected person and who themselves show symptoms of illness should go into quarantine at home. According to the district spokeswoman, they should consult their family doctor, who decides whether a test will be carried out.
The district’s crisis team had come together in the morning due to the rapid spread of the pathogen. According to the NRW Ministry of Health, all those affected have references to those infected in the Heinsberg district. In all known cases, only the 46-year-old educator and her husband – he is considered to be the first infected in NRW – are treated in the hospital. The man’s condition is considered serious, but had “stabilized” recently. An estimated 1,000 people are quarantined at home as a precaution.
Homework supervisor in Bonn affected
After the infection of an employee of an open all-day care (OGS), a Bonn primary school is closed for two weeks from Monday. The around 185 children who attended school were now being tested for the virus, said the head of the Bonn health department, Ingrid Heyer. To this end, crisis teams would visit the families at home later in the day.
The 23-year-old OGS employee shows only slight symptoms and is in quarantine at home, said the medical director of the Bonn University Hospital, Wolfgang Holzgreve. The young man had celebrated carnival in the Heinsberg district and then returned to Bonn on Ash Wednesday, where he worked at the OGS, Heyer described. There he then looked after children with their homework. After that, he felt bad and was not at school on Thursday. He went to the university clinic, but initially no test was carried out there.
It was only on Friday afternoon, when the man drove to the clinic a second time, that he was tested positive for the corona virus. The clinic staff was not aware at the time that the student had previously celebrated carnival in the Heinsberg district.
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