Status: 10.03.2021 8:10 a.m.
In the live ticker, NDR.de will inform you today – on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 – about the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic for Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Hamburg. The Tuesday’s blog can be read here.
The essentials in brief:
- Suspected fraud for corona aid for the economy
- Hamburg citizenship advises in special meeting on Corona step-by-step plan
- Vaccination takes place on Hiddensee
- SH: Minister informs about corona consequences for tourism
- State Parliament in MV: Current hour on corona costs
- Coronavirus-Update: Why men are more at risk
- Number of confirmed new infections: 247 in Schleswig-Holstein
- 9,146 new infections and 300 deaths registered nationwide
Tables and graphics: This is how the vaccination campaign is going in the north
Map: New infections in the northern German districts
8:10 am
Survey: Lower Saxony expect dwindling economic power
07:57 am
After a year of the corona pandemic, a survey shows that people in Lower Saxony are increasingly concerned about the state’s economic strength and the security of their jobs. “The optimism that still prevailed in autumn that companies will somehow get through the crisis has turned into the opposite at the turn of the year,” said Volker Schmidt, managing director of the Drei Quellen Mediengruppe, which commissioned a representative survey from the Allensbach Institute for Demoscopy . According to this, 46 percent of those surveyed now expect the economy to continue to decline in the next six months. This means that the population in Lower Saxony has become significantly more pessimistic compared to October last year (36 percent). Only 22 percent currently believed in a positive economic development. As the crisis lasted longer, there was growing concern that a number of companies would not survive. “The psyche of the population is badly damaged,” said Schmidt.
07:57 am
Lower Saxony’s Minister of Health: Everything depends on vaccine deliveries
Vaccinations in general practitioners’ practices from April – how is that supposed to work? Lower Saxony’s new health minister Daniela Behrens in an NDR Info interview.
AUDIO: Behrens on vaccination in doctor’s offices: prioritization still important (7 min)
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07:26 am
Suspected fraud in Corona aid – payout stopped
The Federal Ministry of Economics has after Fraud notices Aid payments for the economy stopped for the time being. Now applicants are to be examined more closely. Investigations are ongoing. First the business magazine “Business Insider” reported. According to this, strangers with false identities are said to have registered with the Ministry of Economic Affairs as checking third parties and then applied for help for real companies. However, the money did not flow to the companies, but to the accounts of the fraudsters
AUDIO: Suspected fraud in corona economic aid agencies (4 min)
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07:00 a.m.
Health ministers advise on vaccination with the family doctor
The federal and state health ministers apparently want to set the exact time for the start of corona vaccinations for general practitioners today. According to information from the German Press Agency, it must be clarified, among other things, how the expected vaccine doses can be distributed among the practices. The bureaucratic effort for general practitioners should be reduced to a minimum. On Monday, the health ministers’ conference agreed on the period at the beginning of April. So far, vaccinations against the coronavirus have primarily been carried out in larger centers in Germany. There are also mobile vaccination teams. Almost eight million doses have been administered so far. This enabled a good three percent of citizens to be fully vaccinated, and 6.4 percent received a first vaccination.
6:51 am
Health insurance companies warn of a billion-dollar gap
According to their central association, the statutory health insurance companies are threatened with a funding gap of billions. The reason is that all reserves will be used up during the corona pandemic, as the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds in Berlin made clear. The chairwoman of the association, Doris Pfeiffer, said: “For this year I am still optimistic that the additional contribution rates will not have to be increased any further.” In the coming year, however, there is a threat of a funding gap in the double-digit billion range. Also because of the corona consequences, the coffers slipped deeper into the red last year. Overall, according to information from Tuesday, a deficit of 2.65 billion euros was reported. In 2019, the minus was 1.5 billion euros. The health fund, as a money collection and distribution point for the cash registers, now had a deficit of 3.49 billion euros.
06:33 am
9,146 new infections and 300 deaths registered nationwide
The health authorities in Germany reported 9,146 new corona infections to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day. In addition, 300 more deaths were recorded within 24 hours. Exactly one week ago, the RKI recorded 9,019 new infections and 418 new deaths within one day. According to the RKI, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants reported within seven days (seven-day incidence) was 65.4 nationwide on Wednesday morning – and thus lower than the previous day (67.5). The nationwide seven-day R value decreased to 0.97. This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 97 more people. The value represents the occurrence of the infection 8 to 16 days ago.
06:08 am
State parliament in MV: Current hour on corona costs
The state parliament in Schwerin is again concerned with the consequences of the corona pandemic. At the request of the left-wing parliamentary group, the current hour at the beginning of today’s meeting is to be debated on the distribution of the pandemic costs. The opposition left is demanding a property levy from billionaires and multi-millionaires in Germany in order to be able to repay the mountain of new debts accumulated to fight the corona crisis. This is intended to limit the burden on employees. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania alone decided to take out a loan of 2.85 billion euros in the previous year to feed the corona protection fund. According to the information, the federal government made debts in the amount of 241 billion euros in the previous year.
6:00 a.m.
247 new cases reported in Schleswig-Holstein
The number of registered new infections with the corona virus has risen again in Schleswig-Holstein. According to data from the Ministry of Health in Kiel, 247 new cases were reported within 24 hours. On Tuesday there were 97 new infections, on Wednesday last week 187. Ten other people died in connection with Covid 19 disease. The seven-day incidence is 46.2 infections per 100,000 population (previous week: 46.4).
05:55 am
Hamburg citizenship advises on a step-by-step plan
The Senate’s new Corona Containment Ordinance is the only item on the agenda of a special meeting of the Hamburg citizenship today. The red-green government had implemented the resolutions of the federal and state governments to extend the lockdown until the end of March and a step-by-step plan for easing one-to-one. At the last citizenship meeting two weeks ago, with the exception of the AfD, all parliamentary groups spoke out in favor of continuing the lockdown in view of the increasing number of infections and risks from virus variants. The special session was applied for jointly by the SPD, the Greens and the CDU and passed with a large majority, although there is usually a break in the spring break.
05:52 am
Tourism in Schleswig-Holstein: Analysis by Buchholz
Schleswig-Holstein’s Minister of Economic Affairs, Bernd Buchholz, reported today on the effects of the corona pandemic on tourism and possible perspectives for this year. Together with the managing director of the Schleswig-Holstein tourism agency, Bettina Bunge, the FDP politician wants to analyze the situation of the branch that is particularly important for the north. It is currently still open when hotels, holiday apartments and holiday centers can reopen for tourists. The federal and state governments will discuss this on March 22nd. Prime Minister Daniel Günther (CDU) has repeatedly shown optimism in the past few days for an opening at Easter. The industry itself repeatedly emphasizes that accommodation providers are not a pandemic driver.
05:49 am
Covid long-term effects in children – doctors are alarmed
Pediatrician Sebastian Groth is treating children with mental health problems more and more often. An alarm signal for him.
VIDEO: Corona: Pediatricians warn of long-term consequences (3 min)
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05:47 am
Vaccination is taking place on Hiddensee today
On the island of Hiddensee, more than 120 people are said to be vaccinated against the corona virus today. According to the district, a mobile vaccination team will take the ferry across the morning and vaccinate in cooperation with the island doctor in his practice. In addition to people with the highest vaccination priority – i.e. people over the age of 80 or medical staff at high risk – those entitled include parts of the school and daycare staff, as Heiko Gernetzki, head of the Stralsund vaccination center, explained.
05:45 am
Corona ticker starts on Wednesday
Also on Wednesday, March 10th, the NDR.de team will keep you up to date on the effects of the corona pandemic in northern Germany. In the live ticker you will find all the important news and also content from the NDR radio and television broadcasts.
The confirmed new corona infections in the north from Tuesday: 97 in Schleswig-Holstein, 354 in Lower Saxony, 203 in Hamburg, 206 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and 61 in Bremen.
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