Corona news of the week - freenet.de

Corona news of the week – freenet.de

The most important Corona news of the last week

The number of new corona infections has increased. On Monday, August 9, the Robert Koch Institute reported 1,183 new infections. The seven-day incidence rate has risen to 23.1. The number of patients in intensive care units has also increased, as Christian Karagiannidis, President of the German Society for Internal Intensive Care Medicine and Emergency Medicine, announced on Twitter. According to him, 417 corona patients were recently treated in intensive care units. In the previous week, this number was 359.

In Germany, 54.8 percent of the population is fully vaccinated against corona. 62.4 percent of Germans have received at least one first vaccination. The number of people who have received at least one first vaccination has increased by 0.7 percent within a week, while the number of people who have been fully vaccinated has increased by almost three percent within the last week.

As part of a pilot project, six clubs in Berlin are opening their indoor areas for dancing without masks and social distancing. Guests must present a negative test result and be tested again after a week. If the second test is successful, visitors will receive ten euros of the ticket price back. The three-day pilot project “Reeboot Clubculture” is intended to show whether indoor dance events can also be possible in the future.

More and more federal states are destroying unused and expired vaccines because demand for vaccinations is falling among the population. In Bavaria, around 53,000 vaccine doses have had to be destroyed since the beginning of the pandemic. More than half of these doses were reported as expired in July. This number could be higher because doctors’ offices, unlike vaccination centers, do not have to report these to authorities.

The Federal Ministry of Health has proposed an end to free corona tests from mid-October. The tests will only remain free for people who cannot be vaccinated. Numerous politicians have spoken out against paying for tests for the unvaccinated. According to the Rheinische Post, citing the Federal Office for Social Security, the free rapid corona tests have so far cost the federal government over 3.7 billion euros.

This month, the German government plans to send the first of the 30 million promised doses of the corona vaccine to poorer countries, as Development Minister Gerd Müller told the Augsburger Allgemeine. The aim is to vaccinate around a third of people in developing countries by the beginning of 2022. Müller also called on other European countries to follow Germany’s example and donate vaccine doses and money.

On Sunday, the federal government declared large parts of southern France to be high-risk areas. According to the RKI, these are Occitania, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur and Corsica as well as the French overseas territories of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, St. Martin and St. Barthélemy. People entering Germany from these areas must be quarantined for at least five days. Vaccinated and recovered people are exempt from this requirement.

In Japan, the health system is at risk of becoming overloaded. To prevent this, only those who are seriously ill with corona and high-risk patients are being admitted to hospitals. This was announced by the Japanese government. In the capital Tokyo, almost 70 percent of intensive care beds were occupied by people with Covid-19 last Sunday. More than 10,000 new infections are reported in Japan every day.

In the Chinese city of Wuhan, a mass corona test was carried out on eleven million residents last week, local authorities announced. The reason for this was new corona cases among migrant workers. 78 new infections were discovered during the mass tests. Wuhan is considered the starting point of the corona pandemic.

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