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The city of Offenbach is trying to stop the increase in new corona infections. The tightened corona restrictions have just been extended by one week for the time being.
It is the same comment every day that the press office of the city of Offenbach adds to the current, local corona infection numbers: Among the people newly reported to be infected with the virus, there are also those who are returning today. On Friday it was “only” one out of six newly infected people, but three out of seven on Thursday and even four out of five on Tuesday. Most of the other new infections were contact persons. When asked, the Offenbach Health Office named Spain, the Balkans and Turkey as the main regions of origin of the infected travelers.
Penalties and information
1116 violations The city of Offenbach has so far found against the distance requirement – 467 of these have been fined, and around 500 further proceedings are being processed. Total fines so far: 112 760 euros.
Against travelers returning Fine proceedings were initiated in ten cases.
The city informs Travelers on www.offenbach.de/reiseinfo and www.offenbach.de/return. fab
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A month ago, the number of people simultaneously infected with the coronavirus in Offenbach was less than ten people. Since the beginning of August there have been consistently over 60, on Friday it was 71. And the incidence value – that is, the new infections per 100,000 people – was 28: Hesse-wide negative value, which is also one of the worst nationwide.
On a rainy Thursday, there weren’t many picnics on the banks of the Main.
© Michael Schick
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The city is trying to bring the situation under control with a whole range of measures. These include restrictions that go beyond the Hesse-wide regulations, for example when visiting nursing homes, when picnicking or when doing group sports. An example: While nationwide up to ten people or two households may stay together in public without a minimum distance, in Offenbach only gatherings of people belonging to one household are allowed – if they eat or drink while doing so. Families are not that close, the city says – as long as the necessary distance from strangers is maintained.
The Offenbach Corona administrative staff has just extended this picnic ban and further tightened rules by an additional week until August 26th. The city has also put up posters and distributed flyers in shops, businesses and buses that provide information on the infection situation in several languages.
The Offenbach city police also check compliance with the mask requirement in S-Bahn stations.
© Monika Müller
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The third pillar of the measures are stricter controls: From 6 to 9 August, the city police only dealt with violations of the Corona regulations. The patrols checked the mask requirement in S-Bahn stations, at bus stops and in supermarkets, checked guest slips in restaurants and looked for groups that were too large to eat or drink outdoors. The result: around 215 violations of the mask requirement, five violations of the picnic ban, four closed bars and the dissolution of several tumults at the Rosenhöhe forest swimming pool – among other things triggered by people who had hoped to receive remaining tickets. For the Offenbach health department, which is thinly staffed, the situation is – as elsewhere – a major challenge. Just looking after the around 550 people in quarantine ties up a lot of staff. To cushion the burden, an app is used in Offenbach that the office can use to communicate with people in quarantine. In addition, four new people are currently being trained, with five more starting work next week. There is also support from other parts of the administration: especially when it comes to translating the telephone services into different languages.
Health department manager Bernhard Bornhofen explains that there is only one infected person in the hospital in Offenbach, among other things, with the fact that it was mainly young people who were infected while on vacation.
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