Status: 11/21/2021 8:17 a.m.
In the live ticker, NDR.de will inform you today – on Sunday, November 21, 2021 – about the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic for Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Hamburg. You can see the events of yesterday in the Saturday’s blog read up.
The essentials in brief:
- Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece and Ireland now high risk areas
- The Federal Government’s Tourism Commissioner expects vaccinations to be compulsory
- RKI: Nationwide seven-day incidence at a new high
- New infections reported in the north: 391 in Schleswig-Holstein, 1,385 in Lower Saxony
Tables and graphics: This is how the vaccination campaign is going in the north
Map: New infections in the northern German districts
8:17 am
Lower Saxony reports 1,385 new infections
In Lower Saxony, the Robert Koch Institute registered 1,385 new corona infections within 24 hours, 442 fewer than on Sunday a week ago. The seven-day incidence per 100,000 population is now 159.6 – a slight decrease from the previous day (161.1), but a sharp increase compared to the previous week (129.8). Two other people have died in connection with Covid 19 disease.
8:05 am
The Federal Government’s tourism officer expects corona vaccination to be mandatory
The tourism commissioner of the executive federal government, Thomas Bareiß, expects a corona vaccination also in Germany. The increasingly worsening situation makes it clear that sooner or later a compulsory vaccination is unavoidable, said the CDU politician of the German press agency. “In retrospect, it was wrong not to see it right from the start. The hope at the time is understandable, but it was not realistic.”
After Austria’s announcement that it would introduce compulsory corona vaccination in February, the topic is also being discussed more intensively in Germany. Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) had said that he believed that in the end it would not be possible to avoid it. Representatives of the SPD and FDP reject compulsory vaccination. Bareiß said: “For me it is politically no longer justifiable that entire industries, retailers, restaurants, clubs, bars and the entire cinema, cultural and event scene live in a state of crisis prescribed by the state for 20 months and are faced with great existential fears, while others are take the liberty not to vaccinate. “
07:46 am
Deutsche Bahn is preparing to implement 3G
Deutsche Bahn wants to announce at the beginning of the week how it will deal with the new 3G rule for passengers. “DB is preparing to implement the latest federal and state resolutions to combat the corona pandemic,” said a spokesman. The Association of German Transport Companies explained that the companies approached the police and regulatory agencies so that effective random checks could be carried out together for control purposes. The association spoke of a difficult sovereign task. Due to the sharp rise in corona numbers, the Bundestag and Bundesrat had decided that passengers on buses and trains must be vaccinated, recovered or tested (3G). It is expected that the regulation will take effect from the middle of the week.
07:32 am
Report: FC Bayern cuts the salaries of unvaccinated professionals
According to a report by “Bild am Sonntag”, several as yet unvaccinated football professionals from FC Bayern Munich have to forego part of their salaries. According to this, the Bayern bosses should have informed those four players who had previously had to be in quarantine of this decision after a conversation last Thursday. You should not receive any salary retroactively for the quarantine week, as the newspaper learned from the team. Several professionals are not vaccinated at the record champions. For example, Bayern missed the 1: 2 in Augsburg last Friday, including the unvaccinated national player Joshua Kimmich, who had to go back to domestic isolation because of contact with a person who tested positive in his private sphere.
07:14 am
Again riots by opponents of the corona measures in the Netherlands
Protests against the corona restrictions in the Netherlands led to riots for the second night in a row. In The Hague, eyewitness reports said hundreds of people set bicycles on fire late on Saturday evening and pelted police officers with stones and fireworks. There were several arrests. The previous evening there had been riots in the port city of Rotterdam with several injuries and dozens of arrests. There were also protests in the central Dutch town of Urk and in cities in the southern province of Limburg, as the public broadcaster NOS reported.
A partial lockdown has been in effect again in the Netherlands for a week. Citizens are only allowed to meet a maximum of four other people in their apartments, employees should work from home if possible. Shops have to close earlier.
6:57 am
Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece and Ireland now high risk areas
The federal government has classified Belgium and most of the Netherlands as Corona high-risk areas due to the sharp increase in the number of infections from today. Greece and Ireland, which are popular with holidaymakers, now also fall into this category. In the case of the Netherlands, the overseas areas of Aruba, Curacao and Sint Maarten are excluded.
Countries and regions with a particularly high risk of infection are classified as high-risk areas. Anyone who enters from a high-risk area and is not fully vaccinated or recovered has to be in quarantine for ten days and can only get rid of it with a negative test five days after arrival at the earliest. The following have been removed from the list of high-risk areas as of today: French Guiana, New Caledonia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Guiana and Suriname.
06:50 am
RKI registered 42,727 new corona infections – incidence at 372.7
The nationwide seven-day incidence has risen again to a high. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week in the morning at 372.7. For comparison: the previous day the value was 362.2, a week ago it was 289 (previous month: 85.6). The health authorities in Germany reported 42,727 new corona infections to the RKI within one day. Exactly one week ago there were 33,498 infections. According to the new information, 75 deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours. A week ago there were 55 deaths.
6:45 a.m.
Immunologist: “Moderna is just as safe as Biontech”
Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) has been criticized for his announcement to limit the Biontech deliveries to doctors. The head of the Institute for Immunology at the Hannover Medical School, Reinhold Förster, makes it clear that the Moderna vaccine is also excellent. “Both vaccines are extremely suitable. Experience has shown that people who have been vaccinated are very well protected with them,” said Förster on NDR television.
VIDEO: Immunologist Reinhold Förster on the subject of booster vaccinations (6 min)
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06:40 am
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06:37 am
SH: Seven-day incidence almost unchanged
The seven-day incidence in Schleswig-Holstein remained at the level of the previous day. It is currently at 134.5 – after 134.3 the day before. This can be seen from the data from the state registration office. 391 new infections with the coronavirus were reported within 24 hours. The hospitalization incidence – i.e. the number of corona patients who per 100,000 people came to clinics within seven days – remains unchanged at 3.23. 129 Covid-19 patients are being treated in the hospital, including 34 in an intensive care unit.
06:35 am
Service: Determine the incidence value for your place of residence
The seven-day incidence of new corona infections is also on the move in northern Germany. If you want to know what the incidence is in your city or in your county, just type in your zip code here.
6:30 a.m.
Corona live ticker starts on Sunday
Good Morning! NDR.de will keep you up to date today – on Sunday, November 21 – about the effects of the coronavirus pandemic in northern Germany. In the ticker you will find all the important news and also content from the NDR radio and television programs. You can see yesterday’s events in Read Saturday’s blog.
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