Status: December 24, 2020 10:00 a.m.
In the live ticker, NDR.de will keep you updated today about the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic for Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Hamburg. The events of Wednesday you can read about it here in the blog.
The essentials in brief:
- Intensive care physician warns of third wave in January
- What is allowed and what is not – this is how Christmas can be celebrated
- 722 new corona cases in Schleswig-Holstein registered -RKI reports 32,195 new cases nationwide
Overview: Tables, maps and graphics on Corona in the north
Background: Come on different case numbers conditions
9:59 am
Telephone counseling in SH: High volume expected over public holidays
Corona pandemic and Christmas stress – the telephone pastoral care in Schleswig-Holstein expects many calls over the holidays. “Corona makes problems more pressing,” says Pastor Lars Palme from the Altholstein church district. Determining issues are loneliness and other psychological problems.
8:50 a.m.
Child protection association: “At Christmas, children especially feel Corona”
Many families have become poorer in the Corona crisis. The children especially feel this, says the President of the Child Protection Association, Heinz Hilgers. At the same time, he sees an opportunity in fewer gifts being given at Christmas. And he calls for more predictability in school matters.
AUDIO: Child protection association sees social division at Corona Christmas (6 min)
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07:41 am
Intensive care physician warns of the third wave of infections in January
The head of the Association of Intensive Care Physicians, Uwe Janssens, has warned of a third wave of corona infections through visits at Christmas. “Only maximum contact restrictions can prevent us from getting a third wave in January,” Janssens told the “Rheinische Post”. “We intensive care physicians urgently ask people not to visit grandma and grandpa at Christmas, but really to stay at home.”
The head of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi) sharply criticized the politics of the federal states. The worsening of the situation goes back to the hesitation of the prime ministers, who for weeks had not drawn any conclusions from the steadily increasing number of infections, said Janssens. “Only 600 people had to die of Corona a day that a rethink and the introduction of radical measures took place – actually too late,” complained the doctor. “As a consequence, the nursing staff in the hospitals will have to endure heavy loads during the Christmas holidays but also afterwards.”
06:34 am
RKI reports 32,195 new corona infections and 802 new deaths
The number of new infections with the coronavirus remains at a high level. The health authorities have submitted 32,195 new cases and 802 deaths to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) within one day, as the RKI announced on Thursday. The number of new infections reported to the health authorities within seven days per 100,000 inhabitants (seven-day incidence) was 196.2 on Thursday. A high of 197.6 was reached on Tuesday. With the R value, the RKI saw in its management report from Wednesday evening a “recently slightly downward trend”. The nationwide seven-day R-value was 0.92 (previous day: 0.95). This means that 100 infected people theoretically infect 92 more people.
6:20 am
722 new corona cases registered in Schleswig-Holstein
722 further corona infections have been reported in Schleswig-Holstein. On Thursday a week ago it was 322. The seven-day incidence – the sum of new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week – rose to 110.1 in Schleswig-Holstein – the previous day the value was 103. Four more People in the state died in connection with a corona infection.
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