Dhe corona virus is spreading further in Germany: in Baden-Württemberg three other people have been infected with the new corona virus. This was announced by the University Hospital Tübingen and the Ministry of Health in Stuttgart on Wednesday. A case from the Göppingen district was previously known. The two new infections in Tübingen are directly related to the first sick patient. Both the travel companion of the man from vacation in Italy and her father were infected. The third patient, a 32-year-old from the Rottweil district, had no connections to the three other infected people, according to the authorities.
Two cases were confirmed in North Rhine-Westphalia. A soldier is tested as a contact person for a possible infection. The investigation is ongoing at the Bundeswehr central hospital in Koblenz, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday. According to dpa information, the soldier had contact with the patient at a carnival event.
Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) sees Germany “at the beginning of a coronavirus epidemic”. In a conference call, he asked the health ministers of the federal states to “activate their pandemic plans and prepare for their possible entry into force,” Spahn said in Berlin on Wednesday. “The situation has changed in the past few hours, unfortunately you have to say that,” added the Minister. No pandemic has yet broken out – “but I think it’s important that we prepare for this situation”.
Federal government forms crisis team
Against the background of the new coronavirus cases in Germany, it is “questionable” whether the previous strategy of the authorities is working – that is, to limit the virus and interrupt the infection chains. It has been shown that the “infection chains are sometimes not understandable,” said Spahn. “That is the new quality.” He added: “The likelihood that this epidemic will pass Germany will not arise.”
The federal government forms a crisis team. Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) and Spahn wanted to inform in Berlin on Thursday about the establishment of the joint crisis management team of their ministries, it said in an invitation on Wednesday. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert had previously said that the virus had moved significantly closer.
Who are the patients and how are they?
The state of the first coronavirus patient in North Rhine-Westphalia is critical. On Monday, the man with symptoms of severe pneumonia was admitted to a hospital in Erkelenz in the Heinsberg district near Aachen and isolated in the intensive care unit. On Wednesday night he was brought to the University Hospital in Düsseldorf. According to dpa information, the patient is in his mid-40s and has a previous medical condition.
Now NRW has a second confirmed coronavirus case – it is the 46-year-old wife. She is a kindergarten teacher, says the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of Health Karl-Josef Laumann. Both patients were in the University Hospital Düsseldorf. The two have two school-age children who currently have no symptoms, as Laumann said in Düsseldorf on Wednesday.
According to district administrator Stephan Pusch (CDU), the infected had an “infinite number of contacts” with other people in the past 10 to 14 days. According to Laumann, they had – already contagious – participated in social life during the carnival season. Pusch said in Düsseldorf on Wednesday that it was now a matter of “breaking the chains of infection”.
The man was treated in the Cologne university clinic last week. After the health department was informed on Tuesday evening that the man had been diagnosed with the coronavirus, it was determined who came into contact with the patient. Ten employees of the university clinic and 31 patients were identified.
An employee of the university clinic showed symptoms of the disease. The result of the corona virus test is still pending, said Florian Klein, director of virology at Cologne University Hospital on Wednesday. She is isolated in the university clinic and is being examined. The woman came to the clinic on her own initiative and said that she did not feel well.
According to Pusch, the sick man from NRW had contact with an acquaintance who had been in China recently on business. The “Aachener Zeitung” reported. At first, Pusch could not say whether this man had also received treatment.
Shortly before the new two cases became known in Baden-Wurttemberg Baden-Württemberg’s Minister of Health Manne Lucha (Green) had announced details of “Patient Zero”, a 25-year-old man from Göppingen. The case became known on Tuesday evening.
According to Lucha, the young man and a friend visited a friend in Milan. Two days after the first symptoms, he reported to the health department. On the same day, a smear was examined at the State Health Office (LGA) and the patient was taken to a clinic, said Stefan Brockmann, head of the LGA competence center for health protection. There the patient is treated in isolation. But he is doing well, his condition is stable.
It was announced on Wednesday afternoon that one of the two patients infected with the novel coronavirus in Tübingen was employed as a senior physician in the pathology of the university hospital. The 60-year-old is said to have had contact with other doctors since the weekend – these contacts have been fully recorded, announced the clinic on Wednesday in Tübingen. A dozen senior physicians were tested and “taken out of health care”. You are under observation.
The man’s 24-year-old daughter is also infected with the virus and is treated in isolation. She had accompanied the first patient from Baden-Württemberg, a 25-year-old from Göppingen, to Milan. There are currently a particularly large number of infected patients in northern Italy.
Finally, on Wednesday evening, a fourth infection with the coronavirus became known in Baden-Württemberg. The 32-year-old affected person from the Rottweil district had entered the risk area in Italy and had no connection to the three previously reported patients in the southwest, the Ministry of Health said in Stuttgart on Wednesday.
A total of 16 coronavirus infections had previously been detected in Germany, most of these patients have now been discharged from the hospital. 14 of the cases occurred in Bavaria on. The other two cases were China returnees, that had been flown out by the federal government. They were treated at the university clinic in Frankfurt am Main and released in mid-February.
What measures are being taken?
“The responsible authorities are now working intensively on the cases to prevent the spread of the corona virus as much as possible,” said Laumann. It cannot be ruled out that there may be other cases in the country. “But our healthcare system is well prepared and prepared for such diseases.”
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