The Robert Koch Institute recorded 237,352 new infections within 24 hours. The nationwide seven-day incidence hardly increases from 1701 to 1703.3 now. It indicates how many people per 100,000 have been proven to be infected with the virus within a week. Another 307 people died in connection with the virus. Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 128,764.
However, the figures are only of limited significance. Experts assume a high number of cases that are not recorded in the RKI data. Test capacities and health authorities are at the limit in many places, contacts are only traced to a limited extent. That is why we use the SZ Corona Dashboard to show an average value from the reports of the past seven days, which is intended to compensate for fluctuations from day to day. You can find more information on this in the transparency blog, further data and graphics on the pandemic here. (29.03.2022)
Lauterbach: “We must act, not complain”
Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has rejected some dissatisfied federal states that had called for a revision of the national infection protection law. He cannot be satisfied with the situation in the hospitals. But there is no legal basis for extending the nationwide measures such as the mask requirement. “The Infection Protection Act remains the basis of the measures that we will take in the coming weeks and months.”
It is now up to the countries to act locally to contain the pandemic and any outbreaks. “I have expressly asked the federal states again to use the hotspot regulation,” said Lauterbach. The slogan of the hour must be “that we use the rules that we have. We have to act, not complain.”
A national mask requirement is only possible if there is also a national health risk from the corona pandemic. However, this does not currently exist, as the Federal Government’s Council of Experts has determined. So there can be no national regulation.
It is now about the local control of the pandemic. “We have a good law that is not used enough because the states are demanding a law that is not legally enforceable,” said Lauterbach.
Lauterbach wants to propose four criteria for hotspots to countries
Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach wants to propose four criteria to the federal states for determining corona hotspots. The SPD politician said this on the Bild TV station with a view to the switch of the Health Ministers’ Conference (GMK) planned for the afternoon.
According to Lauterbach, the criteria would be if planned interventions could no longer take place in hospitals due to Corona, emergency care was at risk, care fell below lower limits or patients had to be transferred to other hospitals. With these criteria, the countries should be able to implement the hotspot regulations. “And I appeal to the states to do it now,” Lauterbach continued.
Lauterbach rejected the demand by the Bavarian Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) for a nationwide extension of the mask requirement. “Whether he proposes it or not, that’s completely irrelevant. It’s not legal,” said the SPD politician, but emphasized that he himself would have liked to have kept the mask requirement if it had been legally possible. However, he appealed to the federal states to make this mandatory for the hotspots and again called on the large supermarket chains to enforce the mask requirement in their branches nationwide by domiciliary rights. He expects companies to respond to his appeal on Monday.
The federal and state health ministers want to discuss the hotspot rules for stricter corona measures on Monday. There is disagreement in the state governments as to whether the legal requirements for identifying hotspots are currently met or not. (28.03.2022)
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