Corona in the district of Recklinghausen – the pandemic news blog

We regularly update the figures on the corona situation in the Recklinghausen district in the news blog. On Thursday, December 1, the incidence increased. There are six more dead.

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Update Dec 1 8:15am

The seven-day incidence of corona infections in the Recklinghausen district increased again, by 7.5%. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) released an incidence value of 243.8 for the district on Thursday, Dec. 1. Wednesday was 226.8. Last Thursday the incidence in the RE district was 224.4. The weekly comparison is therefore negative.

State and national, the incidence value has also increased compared to Wednesday. In NRW, the incidence, which reflects the number of new infections in the past seven days per 100,000 population, was 244.9 on Thursday (previous day: 242.4) – and in the federal government 201.9 (previous day: 196, 7).

However, incidence values ​​should always be viewed with caution: experts assume that a large number of cases are not recorded in the RKI data. One reason: an overloaded reporting and testing system. The fact that some people don’t have their positive self-test or rapid test cleared up with a PCR test could also play a role. So they won’t appear in the stats. Late recordings or transmission problems can also distort the picture. Or the fact that many federal states do not or incompletely report data to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on weekends or public holidays.

When assessing the corona situation, the number of corona patients in the hospital and the occupancy of the intensive care beds are also taken into account. However, the so-called hospitalization incidence is only reported nationwide (see below).

Administrative district of Münster: Bottrop is in the best location

In the administrative district of Münster, development on Thursday was inconsistent. The district of Warendorf continues to have the highest incidence, followed by the district of Recklinghausen. Bottrop has the lowest value. Below is a detailed overview of the administrative district of Münster (source: RKI, as of December 1, 03:08, previous day’s values ​​in brackets):

District of Warendorf: 263.1 (278.2)

Circle D: 243.8 (226.8)

Coesfeld district: 239.9 (245.8)

Borken district: 234.5 (237.7)

Munster: 226.6 (214.7)

Gelsenkirchen: 224.1 (234.5)

District of Steinfurt: 206.4 (198.4)

botrop: 179.9 (182.4)

Across NRW, Leverkusen (518.2) holds the negative top position, with Oberhausen (138.0) at the bottom. And this is the situation in the neighboring regions of the Vest in the Ruhr area: Dortmund has an incidence of 221.0, Herne 310.9, Essen 215.9, Bochum 229.5, the district of Unna 248.3 and the district of Wesel at 228.3.

RE district: 322 new infections and six deaths

The district of Recklinghausen, together with its ten cities, has decided to limit the detailed publication of the data to one day a week. The data for the municipalities belonging to the district are always made available on Fridays (see below), no longer daily. According to the district, however, it reports its data to higher-level authorities on a daily basis, albeit with the exception of weekends and holidays. RKI statistics for Thursday, December 1 show that 231,905 corona cases have been registered in the district of Recklinghausen since the start of the pandemic. So recently there were 322 new infections. Six other Corona-related deaths were also reported. According to the district administration, an 87-year-old man from Haltern am See, two women aged 86 and 88 from Herten, a 73-year-old woman and an 87-year-old man from Marl and a woman from Waltrop aged 94 dead. The number of deaths from Covid 19 in the district is 1598.

The county’s most recent local data:

Here is the data from the district of Recklinghausen for the ten cities belonging to the district – as of Friday 25 November. The unified positive trend is broken. In several cities, the incidence increased in a weekly comparison, for example in Dorsten, Herten, Recklinghausen, Haltern, Datteln and Oer-Erkenschwick. Dorsten now has the highest incidence and Waltrop the lowest. And here is how the situation looks in the ten municipalities of the district (as of November 25, 6:30; the value from November 18 is in brackets):

Dorsten: 291.1 (272.3)

Deer: 289.1 (252.0)

Marl: 274.8 (311.8)

Recklinghausen: 256.5 (211.4)

Castrop-Rauxel: 244.9 (306.5)

gladbeck: 220.3 (270.8)

holders: 219.5 (216.9)

at your place: 215.0 (169.2)

Oer-Erkenschwick: 197.5 (124.2)

Waltrop: 152.9 (139.3)

In total: 248.0 (245.3)

The following overview lists the total number of corona cases in the respective cities and the number of deaths (as of Friday, November 25):

Castrop-Rauxel: 27,257; 153;

at your place: 11,352; 115;

Dorsten: 29,294; 137;

gladbeck: 28,919; 222;

Haltern am See: 13,295; 38;

Deer: 24,826; 190;

Marl: 32,094; 199;

Oer-Erkenschwick: 11,005; 119;

Recklinghausen: 43,837; 351;

Waltrop: 8887; 62;

In total: 230,766; 1586;

Four corona patients are in the intensive care unit

According to the Divi intensive care register (as of December 1, 7:18), there are currently four corona patients in the intensive care unit in the district of Recklinghausen (previous day: 7), one of whom has to be artificially ventilated (day previous: 1). 33 of the 190 intensive care beds are currently free. That’s 17.36 percent (previous day: 14.43). The proportion of Covid 19 patients out of the total number of intensive care beds in the district is 2.11 percent (previous day: 3.61).

The vaccination rate in NRW remains unchanged

The district of Recklinghausen no longer publishes vaccination data at the district level, but only refers to the state vaccination quotas in its dashboard. According to this, 79.5% of people across NRW are fully vaccinated and another 2.3% are incomplete (as of Nov 23, 2022). The vaccination rate has not changed in recent weeks.

The current opening hours of the vaccination centres

Since 24 September, the district of Recklinghausen has been administering Biontech’s Corona vaccine, which has been adapted to the Omicron variants BA.1 and BA.4/5, in its municipal vaccination centres.

The current opening times of the last municipal vaccination center in the district: In Recklinghausen at Kölner Straße 20, immunization takes place every Saturday from 14:00 to 18:00. The vaccination center is responsible for the entire Recklinghausen district.

Furthermore, there is still the possibility for everyone to get vaccinated against the corona virus by resident doctors and in some pharmacies. The new adapted corona vaccine is already being vaccinated in some medical practices. More information on vaccinations can be found at www.kreis-re.de/coronaimpfung.

Other vaccination options:

– Marl, Paracelsus Clinic (chapel), opening hours: Wednesday and Thursday, 16.00 to 20.00, first and second vaccination and booster vaccinations, registration required: www.klinikum-vest.de or Tel. 02361 5684917 (weekdays from 8:00 to 12:00)

– Recklinghausen, Knappschaftskrankenhaus Recklinghausen (nursing school), Dorstener Straße 151, opening hours: Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 16:00 to 20:00, first and second vaccination and booster, compulsory registration: www.klinikum-vest . de or Tel. 02361 5684917 (weekdays from 8:00 to 12:00)

The district of Recklinghausen has developed guidelines for action. You can find it at: www.kreis-re.de/positiv.

36,115 new corona infections in Germany

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) gave the seven-day national incidence Thursday morning as 201.9. This is evident from the numbers reflecting the RKI dashboard status at 5am. The day before, the value of new corona infections per 100,000 inhabitants and week was 196.7 (previous week: 186.9; previous month: 351.7). However, this information only provides a very incomplete picture of the number of infections. Experts have long assumed there will be a large number of RKI-unrecorded cases, mainly because by far not all infected people have had a PCR test done. Only positive PCR tests count in the statistics. Furthermore, late registrations and transmission problems can lead to distortions of the individual daily values.

German health authorities recently reported 36,115 new corona infections (previous week: 38,090) and 152 deaths (previous week: 163) to the RKI in one day. Here, too, data comparisons are only possible to a limited extent due to test behavior, late entries and transmission problems. In general, the number of new infections and deaths recorded varies significantly from weekday to weekday, as many federal states do not report them to the RKI, especially on weekends, and report their cases later in the week.

The RKI has counted 36,499,600 detected infections with Sars-CoV-2 since the start of the pandemic. The actual total number is likely to be significantly higher, as many infections go undetected.

Bavaria has the best incidence value

In North Rhine-Westphalia, the incidence value on Thursday 1 December was 244.9 (previous day: 242.4). Lower Saxony has the highest value among the federal states (385.6), Bavaria the lowest (108.2).

According to the State Health Center (LZG), the incidence of seven-day hospital admissions in North Rhine-Westphalia, which is important for assessing the situation, was 8.11 on Thursday, December 1 (previous day: 7.65) .