Status: 24.02.2021 7.45 a.m.
In the live ticker, NDR.de will also inform you today – on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 – about the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic for Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Hamburg. The news from yesterday you can in the blog read up.
The essentials in brief:
- MV summit advises on opening perspectives
- Teachers and daycare workers can be vaccinated starting today
- MV: Start of school up to grade six in three regions
- Kiel State Parliament decides on the crisis budget
- Reported new infections in the north: 262 in Schleswig-Holstein
- RKI: 8,007 new corona cases confirmed nationwide
Tables and graphics: This is how the vaccination campaign in the north works
Map: New infections in the northern German districts
07:42 am
MP criticizes “snail pace” in cultural aid
In Lower Saxony and Bremen, as of December 31, 2020, less than a third of the applications from the Corona aid program “Neustart Kultur” had been approved. Of the 1,622 applications submitted in Lower Saxony, 494 were approved; in Bremen there were 451 submitted and 156 approved applications. This emerges from a list of the Federal Commissioners for Culture and Media, to which the Lower Saxony member of the Bundestag Victor Perli (left) referred. “The federal government’s cultural aid is only flowing at a snail’s pace,” says Perli. The program launched in mid-July 2020 “Restart culture“In its first edition provides aid of one billion euros and is intended to secure Germany’s cultural infrastructure in the face of the Corona crisis. The program has now been topped up by a further billion euros.
07:26 am
Coronavirus update: Ciesek on the effects of the mutations
In the In the new episode of the coronavirus update, Prof. Sandra Ciesek, Head of the Institute for Medical Virology at the University Hospital Frankfurt, speaks about variant B1.1.7, its effect on the number of new infections and about a nasal spray in animal experiments.
We have been living with the coronavirus for a good year now. With fear, worries and limitations. A time that wasn’t easy for all of us. We would therefore like to know from you: What has helped you through this time? What gave you courage, what distracted you and did you good? We’re looking for your personal stories for a special episode of our Coronavirus Update podcast: Send us a voice message via the NDR Info App
06:50 am
262 new infections registered in Schleswig-Holstein
In Schleswig-Holstein, the number of corona cases has increased by 262 to a total of 41,462 registered infections. Yesterday 93 new infections and a week ago 251 new infections were reported. The seven-day incidence is currently 49.2 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within one week. Yesterday the value was almost the same at 49.3, on Wednesday last week it was 55.8.
06:26 am
Spahn answers the questions of the MPs today
Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn will answer questions from members of the Bundestag at noon. The CDU politician is criticized for delays in the quick tests for everyone and for the slow start of the corona vaccinations. The Standing Vaccination Commission (Stiko) advocates not adhering to the order of corona vaccinations too rigidly. In all vaccination centers there should be lists for “whose turn it is when there are doses left over,” said Stiko boss Thomas Mertens to the newspapers of the Funke media group. So that no vaccine is discarded, “suitable candidates from the following priority groups” could be preferred.
06:04 am
RKI: 8,007 new corona cases confirmed nationwide
The health authorities reported 8,007 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day – that’s a good 450 more than a week ago (7,556). In addition, 422 other deaths were recorded. The total number of people who died with or with the involvement of a proven infection with Sars-CoV-2 rose to 68,740. According to the RKI, the number of new infections reported within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants (seven-day incidence) is 59.3 nationwide – and thus lower than the day before (60.5). The nationwide seven-day R-value was 0.98 (previous day: 1.05) according to the RKI management report from yesterday evening. This means that 100 infected people infect 98 more people. The value represents the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago. If it is below 1 for a long time, the infection process subsides.
05:49 am
Before the MV summit: Schwesig urges caution
Before today’s MV summit with representatives from business, municipalities and social associations, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania’s Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) continued to urge caution in the pandemic. “I understand the desire for further opening steps. Unfortunately, the figures show that we are not over the mountain yet.” From 1 p.m., the digital summit will be about a step-by-step plan of how openings for corona new infections of less than 35 per 100,000 inhabitants could look in seven days, Schwesig said. She wants to take the plan with her to the next federal-state meeting on March 3rd. Entrepreneurs expect horticultural markets, zoos and animal parks to open on March 1st – as planned in Schleswig-Holstein. After falling numbers, the number of new infections in the northeast has not fallen recently.
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