The virologist Ulrike Protzer has become a well-known face in Germany since the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic. The Munich professor regularly appears on news programs or gives lectures on how the corona virus will develop and what the prospects are. Since the beginning of the pandemic there has not been a phase that … Read more
Two weeks after the start of Oktoberfest – and a day before the end of Wiesn – the crown numbers in Munich are as high as feared: on Sunday the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reported an incidence of 768.7 per the city of Monaco. The value is slightly lower than on Friday (792.8). According to … Read more
The delivery of Omikron BA.1 vaccines has only recently begun. The Munich Vaccination Center now also offers adapted vaccines from Biontech and Moderna, which are approved as booster vaccinations. They are vaccinated in all three municipal vaccination centers – in Gasteig, Marienplatz and the Olympia shopping center, but also in all mobile vaccination campaigns. The … Read more
Of Annette Jaeger Rapid tests that deliver a false-positive corona result are now used to. But are there also PCR tests that give a wrong result? This is the impression that some patients get in these days of the ongoing omicron wave. You feel corona symptoms, have a positive rapid test, but the PCR test … Read more
The Omikron variant has become the dominant virus variant in Munich. As the city reports, the health department has recorded 3812 suspected Omicron cases in the past two weeks – more than three times as many as infections with the other variants (1243), most of them Delta (as of Monday). Associated with this, the seven-day … Read more
The Corona variant Omikron can now be detected in Munich wastewater. On December 7th and 10th, the research team headed by the Tropical Institute at the LMU-Klinikum took water samples at six locations. Five of them are positive, as Andreas Wieser, specialist in medical microbiology and hospital hygiene, confirmed on Monday. “This is not a … Read more