Status: 06.04.2022 8:55 a.m
In the live ticker, NDR.de will also inform you today – on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 – about the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic for Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Hamburg. Yesterday’s news and events you can Read Tuesday’s blog.
The essentials in brief:
- Lauterbach overturns plans for voluntary isolation of corona infected people
- The Union faction apparently wants to vote against the federal government’s vaccination plans
- Confirmed new infections in the north: 25,028 in Lower Saxony8.007 in Schleswig-Holstein
- RKI: 214,985 new corona cases registered nationwide – Incidence at 1,322.2
Tables and graphics: This is how the vaccination campaign works in the north
Map: New infections in the north German counties
8:54 a.m
The Union faction apparently wants to vote against the federal government’s vaccination plans
The new push by the vaccination proponents in the federal government’s camp for a corona vaccination from the age of 60 is met with rejection in the Union faction. According to the “Bild” newspaper, the first parliamentary manager of the Union faction in the Bundestag, Thorsten Frei (CDU), criticized that shortly before the gates closed, new proposals were coming from the ranks of the traffic light coalition. “It’s not serious,” said the CDU politician. He thinks it makes more sense “if they join our concept”. The CDU and CSU are proposing a “Vaccination Prevention Act”. A vaccination register is to be set up and a “graded vaccination mechanism” introduced, which can be activated by the Bundestag and Bundesrat depending on the pandemic situation. On Thursday, several applications for compulsory corona vaccination are to be voted on in the Bundestag.
8:32 a.m
Lauterbach overturns plans for voluntary isolation
The one planned for May 1st There shouldn’t be voluntary isolation of corona infected people now. This was announced by Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) on the ZDF program “Markus Lanz”. He will withdraw the suggestion that infected people decide for themselves whether to isolate themselves. If someone gets infected, there will still be an order from the health department. However, the isolation period should be reduced to five days. Lauterbach justified his about-face with the – literally – negative and devastating signal that came from this new regulation. Today Lauterbach added that although it is not possible to check whether infected people are following the isolation orders anyway, people have come to the conclusion that they now think Corona is harmless. That’s more of a shame than sticking to the de facto obsolete isolation notices.
AUDIO: Lauterbach’s backtrack on the isolation of people infected with corona (3 min)
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However, it is unclear whether and how the federal states will react to Lauterbach’s new announcement. They had previously been asked to implement the abolition of the mandatory quarantine. Lower Saxony, for example, has already done this. Also Hamburg had announced the implementation, in Schleswig-Holstein Health Minister Garg praised the plans. Lauterbach wants to officially comment on the isolation rules again today.
5:50 a.m
RKI: Nationwide seven-day incidence continues to fall
The nationwide seven-day incidence has continued to fall. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the value of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants per week in the morning at 1,322.2. The previous day the value was 1,394.0. A week ago, the nationwide incidence was 1,663.0 (previous month: 1,231.1). The health authorities in Germany reported 214,985 new infections to the RKI within one day. A week ago there were 268,477 infections.
When considering the values, it must be taken into account that individual states do not report data on every day of the week, and at weekends, for example, Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony and Brandenburg do not, or only partially, report data. This in turn leads to late registrations on the following days. A comparison of daily values is therefore becoming increasingly difficult.
5:46 a.m
Seven-day incidence in Lower Saxony continues to fall
25,028 new corona cases were reported for Lower Saxony today. (Previous day: 33,011; previous week: 33,071). However, Lower Saxony no longer reports any new cases to the RKI at the weekend, so that there are late reports in the following days. The individual daily values are therefore hardly comparable with one another. The seven-day incidence of new infections in Lower Saxony continued to fall and is now 1,564.6 (previous day: 1,658; previous week: 1,975.7).
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