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Updated March 31, 2023
The Recklinghausen district administration updated its Corona dashboard for the last time on Friday (March 31). From now on there will be no more infection numbers and incidence values from the ten district cities. The circle justifies this step with the fact that the data situation is getting thinner and thinner. The free citizen tests that many use are also no longer offered. The legal entitlement to a PCR test after a positive rapid test has ceased to exist. “Our statistics could only ever include PCR results that were reported by the laboratories. Hardly any PCR tests are carried out today, so the data we have is no longer meaningful,” explains Dr. Sabine Wadenpohl, responsible for health and education reporting at the district.
Regardless of whether the dashboard is updated, the health department will continue to report all cases known to it to the State Center for Health – at least as long as the obligation to report corona infections remains.
District RE is in third place in NRW
In the past week, the seven-day incidence in the Recklinghausen district has decreased significantly again. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) published a value of 41.1 for the district on Friday, March 31. On Friday of the previous week, the incidence here was 72.8, at the beginning of the month it was 150.9. With this value, the district of Recklinghausen has the third-highest incidence in NRW.
For further comparison: For the whole of Germany, the RKI currently shows an incidence of 27.8 (previous week: 39.0), in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia the value is 27.3 (previous week: 41.2).
A total of 1770 deaths in the RE district
According to RKI statistics for Friday, March 31, 247,349 corona cases have been registered in the Recklinghausen district since the beginning of the pandemic (with 615,000 inhabitants). There were 38 new infections within 24 hours. The number of people who died in connection with Corona is now 1770 (previous week: 1769).
15 corona patients in the intensive care unit
According to the Divi intensive care register (as of March 31, 7:18 a.m.), there are 15 patients in the intensive care unit in the Recklinghausen district, three of whom need artificial ventilation. 46 of 193 intensive care beds are currently free. That is 23.83 percent. The proportion of Covid 19 patients in the total number of intensive care beds in the district is 7.77 percent.
The seven-day hospitalization incidence, which is important for the assessment of the situation, is 3.36 in North Rhine-Westphalia on Friday, March 31, according to the State Center for Health (LZG).
Two district cities with a three-digit incidence value
For the last time, the district administration published figures for the ten towns belonging to the district. The development is uneven. In four cities, the incidence has increased in a weekly comparison (Herten, Oer-Erkenschwick, Waltrop, Haltern), in the other six it has fallen. Herten and Oer-Erkenschwick even have a three-digit incidence value. The incidence is lowest in Recklinghausen. And this is how the situation in the ten towns belonging to the district looks like (as of March 31, 6:30 a.m.; the value from March 24 in brackets):
Deer: 130,8 (98,5)
Oer-Erkenschwick: 117,9 (60,5)
Waltrop: 68,0 (54,4)
holders: 60,8 (58,2)
dates: 43,0 (103,2)
Castrop-Rauxel: 34,2 (78,0)
Dorsten: 24,1 (41,6)
Marl: 17,9 (151,7)
Gladbeck: 15,9 (22,6)
Recklinghausen: 4,5 (54,2)
In total: 41,0 (72,8)
The following overview lists the total number of corona cases in the respective cities and the number of deaths (as of Friday, March 31):
Castrop-Rauxel: 29.232; 179;
dates: 12.249; 124;
Dorsten: 31.268; 161;
Gladbeck: 30.869; 238;
Haltern am See: 14.213; 48;
Deer: 26.863; 215;
Marl: 34.627; 226;
Oer-Erkenschwick: 11.640; 126;
Recklinghausen: 46.860; 386;
Waltrop: 9.527; 67;
In total: 247.348; 1770;
RE county is at the top of the governorate
In the administrative district of Münster, the Recklinghausen district is still at the top with the seven-day incidence. The lowest incidence is in Munster. In all districts and urban districts, however, the development was positive in a weekly comparison. Below is a detailed overview of the administrative district of Münster (source: RKI, as of March 31, 3:06 a.m.; values from March 24 in brackets):
Circle RE: 41,1 (72,8)
Bottrop: 37,5 (39,2)
District of Warendorf: 32,7 (54,6)
District of Borken: 32,1 (44,7)
District of Coesfeld: 31,6 (37,0)
District of Steinfurt: 26,2 (51,8)
Gelsenkirchen: 26,1 (45,4)
Münster: 25,8 (32,1)
Krefeld has the highest incidence value in NRW (44.5), at the lower end is the Rheinisch-Bergische district (9.5). And this is the situation in the neighboring regions of the Vest in the Ruhr area: Dortmund has an incidence of 39.0, Herne 19.2, Essen 37.6, Bochum 38.8, the district of Unna 38.7 and the district of Wesel to 25.0.
