Giessen is Hesse’s corona problem child: Nine deaths, hotspot identified

• New infections, deaths, incidence: The District of Giessen is difficult from Coronavirus battered.
• The Corona case numbers in to water, Reiskirchen & Co. are high: It applies Warning level black.
• Hardly any other appears in 2021 hessian circle as concerned as to water.

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Giessen – Since the turn of the year im District of Giessen 85 New infections with the Coronavirus known. That goes from the data of the Health department after which the total number of infections recorded rose from 3553 to 3638 on January 1 and 2. The region around the University City develops with it to Hessen biggest problem child in the pandemic. The local authorities put the number of infected people per 100,000 inhabitants within seven days, the so-called 7 day incidence, to 269.7. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), which is slightly behind in the number of registered cases, comes to 278.5 on Sunday (03/01/2021).

Corona in the district of Gießen: According to the RKI, no region is more affected

Whatever value you look at: Hesse-wide the incidence is nowhere higher. Behind the District of Giessen maneuver loudly RKI the Limburg-Weilburg district (244.9) and – beaten – the Waldeck-Frankenberg district (186.1). Other regions now seem to be well below the threshold Warning level black (200) slipped. How meaningful this comparison is remains unclear at first. For the holidays and the time “between the years”, experts anticipated that the Reporting chain likely to be slowed down.

In other words: In many places, probably fewer people let themselves be Corona test and fewer findings ended up with the Health authorities. It is also possible that not all regional authorities transmitted data to the RKI every day, it said officially. So it is quite possible that others Hessian districts at the Incidence value would actually have to be in front of the district of Giessen – or at least on a par – but this is not reflected in the figures.

Corona in the district of Gießen: Lollar is becoming the new hotspot

One thing can be seen in any case from the current information: She has relaxed Corona-Lage in and around to water So far not in 2021. The health department currently has 2800 active members Sars CoV-2 cases known to more than ever. The hospitals report on Record workloadswhich can also be seen in the figures: At 94 Covid-19 patients from the District of Giessen has reached a peak. Then there are those who are in the Giessen clinics are in treatment, but do not live in the district and therefore do not appear in the statistics of the local authorities. New Hotspot is Lollarwhere the 7-day incidence after a corona outbreak in a nursing home has now reached 1523 (see table below).

In the past two days there were also nine more deaths known that with a Corona infection or the Covid-19 lung disease stay in contact. So January starts as badly as December ended. In the past month alone, a total of 81 people died from the Pouring circle on or with the Coronavirus, there had previously been a total of 20 deaths. At the start of the new year, the total number of deaths has now climbed to 110.

Corona in the district of Gießen: This is the situation in the cities and communities