As of: 05/29/2021 8:12 a.m.
In the live ticker, NDR.de will inform you today – on Saturday, May 29, 2021 – about the consequences of the coronavirus pandemic for Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Hamburg. You can see what happened yesterday in the Friday’s blog read up.
The essentials in brief:
- nine Open outdoor pools in Hamburg today
- Corona outbreak in poultry farm in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district
- Hamburg: Less vaccine delivered to practices than allocated
- New infections in the north: 108 cases in Schleswig-Holstein; 5,426 nationwide
Tables and graphics: This is how the vaccination campaign is going in the north
Map: New infections in the northern German districts
8:12 am
Sociologist Neckel describes the end of prioritization as an error
Corona vaccine is still in short supply in Germany – the government’s decision to end vaccination prioritization on June 7th will not change anything. In an interview with NDR Info, the Hamburg sociologist Sighard Neckel criticizes the fact that the question of who is vaccinated is left to the population. “This is likely to lead to a certain degree of resentment in society,” he said. Because “that can mean that the better-informed, those who live in districts with many general practitioners, that the assertive may be more likely than those who actually need it more.” The government is taking away from its responsibility by lifting the prioritization.
AUDIO: Sociologist Neckel describes prioritization end as error (4 min)
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07:54 am
Karliczek: Vaccination offer for previously ill children necessary until the end of the holiday
Federal Minister of Education Anja Karliczek (CDU) has spoken out in favor of vaccinating children with previous illnesses against the corona virus by the start of the school year. The politician told the editorial network in Germany that it would make everyday school life easier. Because this protects another risk group. Federal Family Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) meanwhile warned of distribution battles with the corona vaccine. It is important that the generations are not played off against each other, Lambrecht told the Funke media group. For healthy children and adolescents, there is only a low risk of developing serious Covid-19. The European Medicines Agency yesterday released the Biontech / Pfizer product for children from the age of twelve. Vaccine is still scarce in Germany.
07:40 am
Corona outbreak in poultry farm in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district
There is a major corona outbreak in a poultry processing plant in Brenz (Ludwigslust-Parchim district). So far, 32 employees have tested positive for the corona virus, reports NDR 1 Welle Nord. A good 150 employees did not show up this week for a test campaign to which the health department had called on the employees. Therefore, there should now be a new action on Monday, May 31, as the district announced. As a precaution, the district quarantined all employees who were in the company between May 25, 5 a.m. and May 27, 10 p.m. “We are taking this measure because we do not want to jeopardize the low seven-day incidence of the district, which the residents have fought for,” said District Administrator Stefan Sternberg (SPD).
07:35 am
Lower Saxony: Doctors against lifting the vaccination prioritization
The resident doctors in Lower Saxony consider the lifting of the vaccination prioritization on June 7th to be premature. Not all people in priority group 3 have been vaccinated against Covid-19, said the spokesman for the Lower Saxony Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVN), Detlef Haffke, of the German press agency. An even bigger rush and even more overload can be expected in the practices. The big problem is that the expected delivery quantities are not enough for all those eligible for vaccination. The vaccination centers and practices could only cope with the rush together. However, according to the KVN spokesman, most people first turn to their family doctor. 90 percent of the inquiries to practices are currently about the desire for a corona vaccination.
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