Since the beginning of the pandemic, 75,338 Hamburg residents have been infected, around 69,200 people are considered cured. They are also expected to be immunized for six months after the disease has ended. Around 673,600 people have already received a corona vaccination; around 195,800 of them also required a second vaccination. In total, a good 869,400 vaccine doses have been administered in Hamburg so far. Which groups of people and professions are currently called upon to Appointment for corona vaccination to be agreed is available online at www.hamburg.de/corona-imichtung.
Given the current number of cases, it can be assumed that further cases may be reported in the course of this week, which will be included in the development of the incidence; Due to the public holiday on May 13th, 2021 and the bridging day, it is conceivable that fewer people visited a doctor and fewer samples were taken or laboratory tests were carried out.
Nevertheless, a clear relaxation can be observed. The falling number of cases also has a positive effect on the Covid-related occupancy in Hamburg’s hospitals: there are currently 172 patients in 17 hospitals treated as an inpatient, including 27 cases from the surrounding area. Out of the total, 52 patients from Hamburg and 19 patients from the surrounding area require intensive medical treatment. A total of 51 of the 172 patients are over 70 years of age.
In the Care facilities in Hamburg there are no more active corona cases. Due to the vaccinations and other protective measures carried out across the board up to the end of February, after a significant drop to single-digit values in the past few weeks, no infection has been recorded among the residents.
The number of laboratory-evaluated PCR tests carried outTests in Hamburg there is currently an average of around 12,700 tests per working day. The rate of positive results has decreased from 4.1 percent to 3.2 percent. In addition, rapid tests are carried out to a large extent in test centers, pharmacies and medical practices; a card with the test options is available at www.hamburg.de/corona-schnelltest.
At present, sequencing in Hamburg is becoming clear Detection of known virus variants carried out in the context of randomly selected samples as well as in the event of certain indications. The South African variant B.1.351 has so far been clearly detected in 18 cases (+2), in a further 22 cases there is a suspicion of this form of mutation on the basis of epidemiological suspicions or on the basis of preliminary investigations. The Brazilian variant B.1.1.28 has so far been detected in three cases (+1), there is one suspected case. The Indian variant B.1.617 was detected in three cases (+1), in three other cases there is a suspicion.
In the 19th calendar week a total of 914 cases have been recorded by the health authorities. 199 cases are in the 20 to 29 year old age group and 173 in the 30 to 39 year old age group. 47 cases this week are from 0 to 5 year olds, 67 cases from 6 to 14 year olds. The number of infections among the elderly continues to decline: 41 cases this week can be assigned to those over 70 years of age.
Allocation to an outbreak event is possible for 248 of the cases; there are a total of 67 identified outbreaks (from two people). Statements about the infectious environment can only be made for some of these outbreaks; In the majority of the outbreak situations (53 outbreaks with 145 cases) it is the private environment or the household, four outbreaks with a total of 11 cases can be traced back to the workplace. The site of infection is predominantly in Hamburg; in 15 cases a site of infection is given abroad (including Turkey, Serbia and Indonesia).
The RKI now reports a total of 1,535 deceasedwho were also infected with the corona virus. Among all over 90-year-olds from Hamburg infected with SARS-CoV-2, the proportion of deceased is currently around 23.9 percent, among 80 to 89-year-olds around 19.8 percent, among 70 Up to 79-year-olds around 10.4 percent, among 60- to 69-year-olds around 2 percent, and in all other age segments it is well below one percent.
With the new Coronavirus entry regulation will be the questions of entry and entry quarantine regulated at federal level. The regulations in the Hamburg containment ordinance (§§ 35, 36) have been repealed.
All people who come from a risk area must find out about the digital entry registration Report. Vaccinated with a vaccine approved in the EU and those who have recovered (max. 6 months ago) neither need a test when entering from a risk area nor do they have to go into quarantine. All other travelers can test themselves by an antigen test (not older than 48 hours) or a PCR test (not older than 72 hours) on their return. When entering from a high incidence area, there is the possibility of free testing from the fifth day of quarantine. When returning from a virus variant area, the obligation to quarantine applies without exception, and free testing is not possible.
Information for citizens
All important information is always updated and reliably compiled at www.hamburg.de/corona. Information on corona vaccination can be found at www.hamburg.de/corona-imichtung. General questions about corona vaccination are answered on the federal hotline 116 117.
For questions about the regulations in Hamburg, the Hamburg Corona hotline can be reached on 040 42828 4000 Monday to Friday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Daily reporting values for the Corona situation are available at www.hamburg.de/corona-zahlen. Values for the vaccinations carried out are brought together every working day at the RKI in the vaccination rate monitoring (xlsx download).
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