BAccording to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), 129 coronavirus infections have been detected in Germany on Sunday afternoon. In the evening, health authorities reported four more cases in Baden-Württemberg and another infected person in Schleswig-Holstein. The first infection in Berlin was confirmed late on Sunday evening.
As of Friday, there were only 53 records nationwide, so the number has more than doubled since then. The actual number of cases is likely to be somewhat higher because of new evidence. According to the German press agency, three cases have taken place in Rhineland-Palatinate as reported by the RKI two.
Hamster purchases were made in some German supermarkets. Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn described no longer available protective equipment for doctors as a “big issue” – because countries, hospitals and private individuals all over the world bought in stock, said the CDU politician WELT AM SONNTAG.
The infections found have so far been mild in Germany. Most people infected with Sars-CoV-2 have mild cold symptoms with chills and sore throats, or no symptoms at all. 15 out of 100 infected people fell seriously ill, according to the Robert Koch Institute. You get breathing problems or pneumonia.
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Who are the patients and how are they?
Lars Schaade, Vice Director of the RKI, speaks of three so-called infection clusters: Heinsberg in NRW, Baden-Württemberg and Munich. In addition, individual cases that had previously traveled to Italy are confirmed.
In North Rhine-Westphalia According to the Heinsberg district, infections in four children of a day care center were detected. A woman with Covid-19 works as an educator in the facility. Cases have also been reported from Bonn, Cologne, the Sauerland and the Aachen area.
It was announced late on Saturday evening that a teacher from a primary school in Mönchengladbach was infected. The city announced the closure of the elementary school and its sub-location by March 15. The teacher had been in quarantine at home since Thursday and had previously had contact with third-grade students and the teaching staff on one class day. Therefore, the approximately 70 pupils in the third grades, all 30 teachers and the rest of the school staff should remain in quarantine at home.
In Duisburg, two young women with only minor symptoms tested positive for the Sars CoV-2 pathogen. As the city announced late Saturday evening, they had direct contact with an infected person at a carnival party in Geilenkirchen in the Heinsberg district.
For several hundred residents in the Heinsberg district, home quarantine ended on Sunday. Around 300 carnivalists who had attended a meeting in Gangelt on February 15 and their families had been called for the precautionary measures. Since Sunday, those who do not show any symptoms of the disease have been able to move again without restrictions, a district spokesman said in the morning.
The corona virus has too Cologne reached. The virus was detected on Saturday in a 28-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man, the city said. The woman had attended the same carnival event in the Heinsberg district as the 47-year-old, who is considered the first infected in NRW. The Cologne woman is treated in the isolated area of a hospital, but shows only comparatively mild symptoms. The sick 30-year-old also had contact with a person from the Heinsberg district.
The coronavirus had previously been found in a soldier ready to fly stationed at the Cologne Wahn military airport. The 41-year-old has been treated at the Bundeswehr Central Hospital in Koblenz since Wednesday.
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Also the employee of an open all-day care (OGS) in one Bonnprimary school is infected with the corona virus. On the night of Saturday they had heard of the test result and are now calling all parents. The man celebrated Carnival in Gangelt.The approximately 185 children who attended school are now being tested for the virus and quarantined. The school will be closed for two weeks from Monday.
In Aachen and in the nearby Würselen the virus has been detected in three people. In Aachen it was a woman from Gangelt who was treated in an Aachen clinic for other reasons. It is not one of the cases previously reported by the Heinsberg district. In Würselen, a woman and her son, an 11th grade student, tested positive.
Also in Sauerland a special school with 95 pupils and 20 teachers will remain closed at least until the end of next week after the virus has been detected in a teacher from Lüdenscheid. 36 contact persons – including four other teachers from the special school – were sent to home quarantine.
According to the authorities, all known infected people in NRW had contact with a couple Gangelt, which is currently being treated at the University Hospital Düsseldorf. The condition of the 47-year-old husband is still serious. The newly infected are doing comparatively well. The course of the disease is far less difficult for them.
The infected couple – already contagious – took part in social life during the carnival season. In addition, one of the infected people stayed in the Tropical Islands Brandenburger Erlebnisbad from February 20th to 23rd.
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In Rheinland-Pfalz is there three cases. The virus was found in a 41-year-old soldier at the Bundeswehr Central Hospital in Koblenz. The man should not feel sick, but must stay in the clinic until he is virus free. The soldier lives in Gangelt in North Rhine-Westphalia and had contact with the 47-year-old or his wife, who was seriously ill there, at the carnival.
The second case in the country came in on Thursday in the West Palatinate Clinic Kaiserslautern to. A man with symptoms had come there, who, according to the Minister, had been in Iran until recently and had had contact with a “symptomatically conspicuous person” there. According to the hospital, the 32-year-old is doing well. Another 32-year-old man from Kaiserslautern, who is one of the contacts in an already confirmed case, has also fallen ill. He also has hardly any symptoms.
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You should pay attention to these symptoms now
In the laboratories, things are going very quickly. One quick test after another. Who has the corona virus, who is positive, who is negative, how great is the danger for the German population? You should pay attention to these symptoms now.
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The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Baden-Wurttemberg is on 20 gone up. The Ministry of Social Affairs in Stuttgart announced on late Sunday evening. The Mannheim Health Office reported three cases, the Heilbronn Health Office one. There are four men.
A 68-year-old from Mannheim had been in contact with the confirmed Heidelberg South Tyrolean returnee and was in domestic isolation. A 24-year-old, who was also reported from Mannheim, took part in carnival parades in Heinsberg (NRW) – and had a slight cold. He is also in domestic isolation. The third person infected in Mannheim is a 54-year-old Iranian returnee. The ministry said that he had respiratory problems and was being hospitalized.
The virus was detected in Heilbronn in a 20-year-old returning traveler from Lombardy. He was diagnosed with a flu-like infection on the day of his return. The symptoms had already decreased significantly the following day. He is in domestic isolation.
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In Bavaria is the number of coronavirus cases on 23 gone up. As the Bavarian State Ministry of Health announced in Munich, three new cases originating from Upper Bavaria were confirmed by late Saturday afternoon.
For the first time is also on Thursday evening Hamburg an infection has been detected. The clinic and the Hamburg Health Authority said that it was an employee of pediatric and adolescent medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE). The man was on vacation in Italy in Trentino and returned to his home in Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday.
The Hanseatic city announced one on Saturday evening second confirmed case, The authority for health and consumer protection said that it was a woman from Iran who is registered in Hamburg. In the night of Saturday she was brought with slight symptoms by the fire department to the Asklepios Klinik St. Georg and was given isolated medical care there. Meanwhile, she is in domestic isolation.
In Hesse are now eight cases approved. On Saturday evening, four further infections with the novel corona virus were confirmed in addition to the four known cases. According to the Ministry of Social Affairs, there are three men from Frankfurt and one woman from the district of Groß-Gerau. Two men from Frankfurt and the woman are related to the Corona case in the Lahn-Dill district, which was confirmed on Thursday. The disease symptoms are mild in all, it said.
A 1988 born man from Frankfurt is isolated according to the authorities. A 1992-born man from Frankfurt has been in quarantine at home since Friday, it said. The woman from the Groß-Gerau district has been in quarantine at home since Thursday. A man from Frankfurt, born in 1989, is also infected with the virus. This case is related to a trip to Italy. The authorities are currently tracking who the four newly infected people had been in contact with.
In Schleswig-Holstein are three infected approved. A man from Henstedt-Ulzburg in the Segeberg district is in domestic isolation with his wife, as District Administrator Jan Peter Schröder said. In addition, a person from Lübeck, who probably got infected on a business trip to Munich, said the Ministry of Health in Schleswig-Holstein and the Hanseatic city on Saturday evening. The third case is a woman from Nut, as the district of Duchy of Lauenburg and the Ministry of Health announced on Sunday evening. After a carnival visit and contact with patients who were later confirmed to be positive, she had mild cold symptoms. The patient is currently in domestic isolation. An inpatient admission to a hospital is initially not planned due to the currently stable state of health, it said.
Also in Bremen is there first confirmed case infection with the virus. The Senate of the Hanseatic city announced that it was a woman who had stayed in Iran until Thursday. It shows only mild symptoms and is located in the Bremen-Mitte clinic.
The public health office in Bremen has been working since Saturday to identify contact persons for the woman concerned and to take the necessary measures. Two other suspected cases and their contact persons have been in quarantine in Bremen since Friday.
In Lower Saxony is on Saturday first case infection with the corona virus has been confirmed. It is a 68 year old man from Uetze. He had previously been in northern Italy and has to remain in quarantine at home, but according to the authorities, is in good condition.Lower Saxony’s Minister of Health Carola Reimann (SPD) wants to provide further information on Sunday morning together with the President of the State Health Office, Matthias Pulz.
In Berlin is first time a patient proven to suffer from the novel corona virus. This was announced by the Senate Department for Health, Nursing and Equal Opportunities on Sunday evening. The person was isolated and treated in hospital.
What measures are being taken?
The Robert Koch Institute advises regular Wash your hands and to adhere to the “sneeze label”. The experts advise against the use of respiratory masks and disinfectants in everyday life are unnecessary. “Soap and water are enough,” said Vice President Lars Schaade. He also considers face protection to be unsuitable. “There is no scientific evidence that this makes any sense.”
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The chains of infection are sometimes no longer traceable. According to Schaade, however, this must not lead to attempts to keep track of the case and the subsequent cases. It could succeed in catching an infection and breaking chains – this would bring a cluster to a standstill.
In large parts of the world, the data of landing passengers from China in Germany are no longer recorded. Also arriving passengers from South Korea, Japan, Iran and Italy should now submit their data, said Jens Spahn. Appropriate drop-off cards should ensure that all travelers can be contacted quickly if it turns out that a passenger is infected.
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Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) said such dropouts cards should also be completed for cross-border train and bus services. Here he hoped that the transport companies would make a commitment. This is ordered in shipping. Such a step is indispensable for interrupting the infection chains.
Seehofer also closes that Cordon off regions or cities not from. “This scenario would be the last resort.” In addition, the Federal Minister of the Interior said that he expects a corresponding one at the earliest at the turn of the year vaccine, Until then, the virus had to be combated with the classic means of disease protection. “We have to consistently break the infection chains.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel argued for “measure and middle”. Not everyone should Events therefore be canceled. Germany is one of the countries that have the best conditions to deal with the virus. Karin Maag (CDU), health policy spokeswoman for the Union faction in the Bundestag, welcomes the cancellation of major events if there is a high risk of infection. “Especially at events that involve a lot of travel, I think such cancellations are fundamentally correct,” said Maag WELT.
Incidentally, would Asylum seekers tested for the new corona virus, said Seehofer. Because most of them would enter countries like Iran, Iraq or Afghanistan. This Friday, the crisis team wanted to deal with the handling of major events.
Jens Spahn contacted representatives of the medical profession and pharmacists. He emphasized that too many tests should be carried out rather than too few tests. The treatment of infected people does not require high-security isolation facilities. to treatment According to current knowledge, the regular intensive care unit and the regular isolation of the virus are sufficient, and there are several thousand beds here. In addition, it was possible at any time to set up additional provisional insulation units.
How do experts and politicians assess the situation?
The Robert Koch Institute re-classified the lethality of the virus – previously the statements caused concern that the virus was 1-2 percent more mortal than the flu. “We don’t know how many people are recorded,” said Schaade. Experts are certain that there is a high number of unreported cases – this would of course also reduce the death rate. According to his current estimates, the virus outbreak is comparable to a strong to very strong flu wave. The risk for people in Germany is still low to moderate.
The hospital association sees a possible illness of the staff as the greatest challenge in the event of a major coronavirus outbreak in Germany. The clinics are fundamentally well equipped and prepared for a situation similar to that of flu, said regional association manager Matthias Einwag. They are also prepared for isolating the sick. “But since there is no vaccination against the virus unlike the flu, we get a problem when doctors and nurses fall ill.” Then the lack of specialists will become even more noticeable.
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The virologist Christian Drosten The Berlin Charité assumes that the number of cases in Germany will increase significantly. “It will probably infect 60 to 70 percent, but we don’t know at what time,” he said on Friday. “It can take two years or even longer.”
Spahn Germany sees “at the beginning of a coronavirus epidemic”. In a conference call, he asked the health ministers of the countries to “update their pandemic plans and prepare for their possible entry into force”.
Seehofer sees “the situation is significantly aggravated”. He stressed that the government would do everything “humanly possible” to protect the population. But there is no guarantee for that.
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Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier does not expect extensive and large-scale supply bottlenecks for the German economy due to the spread of the virus. However, it could have a negative impact on production if intermediate goods were delivered late. In addition, German exports to China could lose momentum if growth in the People’s Republic slowed.
The President of the German Medical Association, Klaus Reinhardt, said in the ARD “Daily Topics” that the health system is currently well equipped and set up. Germany has one of the highest density of hospitals and hospital beds worldwide in relation to the population. In addition, the big wave of influenza was mastered two years ago.
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