The corona mutations continue to spread. As of Thursday, 771 cases had been registered in Lower Saxony – these are almost exclusively the British variant B.1.1.7.
As the Lower Saxony State Health Office (NLGA) confirmed at the request of NDR.de, the British corona mutant now occurs across Lower Saxony and is obviously spreading rapidly. Of the 771 cases on Thursday, 764 can be clearly assigned to virus variant B.1.1.7. On Wednesday, the NLGA had reported 520 evidence of the mutation. Only one infection was due to the South African variant B.1.351, in six other cases the classification by means of the PCR test was not clearly established.
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Hanover region well above the national average
As reported by NDR 1 Lower Saxony, the British mutant is already responsible for 40 percent of new infections in the Hanover region. However, these are only partially meaningful values from a sample, said an NLGA spokesman on Thursday. Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) said on Wednesday that nationwide more than 23 percent of the new corona infections the British mutation was found.
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Northwest particularly affected?
A focus of the corona mutations could be in the northwest of the country. In the district of Cloppenburg, ten people have so far been affected by the variant of the virus, which is considered particularly contagious. Three of the 210 detected infections at the ice cream manufacturer Froneri in Osnabrück can also be attributed to the much more contagious British mutation B.1.1.7. In the Diepholz district, eleven Covid-19 mutations were found in random samples last week. According to information from NDR 1 Lower Saxony, there are also positive results in the districts of Emsland, Aurich, Leer, Ammerland, Wittmund, Friesland as well as Oldenburg and Göttingen. Only on Wednesday were two corona mutations discovered in a company in Bremervörde.
The reporting system is under construction
The NLGA was unable to say on Thursday how widespread the corona mutations are in Lower Saxony from region to region. A uniform reporting system for collecting the data is in preparation, according to a spokesman. The software is provided by the Robert Koch Institute.
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