The number of corona infections in old people’s and nursing homes in the Munich district is rising rapidly again. In the past few days there have been several outbreaks, for example in Pullach, Oberhaching, Neubiberg and partly also in Garching, despite strict hygiene regulations, tests for visitors and shift work. On Thursday afternoon, the district office reported a total of 170 residents in 15 facilities and 103 employees from these and five additional homes who were infected with Covid-19. The number of deaths after a corona infection is also rising again. If about three weeks ago the mortality rate was still below that in spring, “this statement can no longer be maintained,” said Health Department chief Gerhard Schmid.
District Administrator Christoph Göbel (CSU) assumes that the virus was carried into the facilities by the employees. The vaccinations in the facilities started after Christmas. However, a large number of the employees are apparently not ready to take part in the immunization. The district administrator did not want to commit to an exact number of the current vaccination refusals among the staff in the homes. After a vaccination appointment in Graefelfing, it became known that only 37 out of 100 employees there had the injection. Goebel said: “That is more beautiful than the number that I have.” Despite numerous calls to get vaccinated, the numbers are even lower. Apparently this has nothing to do with specialist knowledge. “In hospitals and among doctors, the willingness to vaccinate is very high,” said the district administrator. Wherever there is really specialist knowledge, there is also trust. Peter Distler-Hohenstatt, head of the specialist unit for care and handicapped facilities in the district administration, had stated after repeated intensive phone calls: “Many employees in the facilities want to wait for the first vaccinations.”
Get vaccinated: The district administrator directs this appeal to the employees in the nursing homes.
(Photo: Claus Schunk)
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The District Office is not yet aware of any vaccination reactions. According to the District Administrator’s knowledge, the complications recorded across Germany are mainly due to allergies. It is usually about an intolerance of certain proteins. “This is explicitly requested before a vaccination,” said Göbel.
According to the district office, a total of around 2000 people in 19 facilities had been vaccinated by Thursday. In addition, there are clinic staff and employees in the vaccination centers, so that so far 2,372 people in the district have received the first dose. The last time such a syringe was used was on January 4th and the next delivery is expected this Friday. The district office reckons with 1950 doses. “We hope for the same amount on February 12th and 15th,” said the district administrator. For the first time, seniors over 80 who do not live in nursing homes can be cared for in the three vaccination centers in the district.
District Administrator Göbel again defended the strategy of initially working in the care facilities with mobile vaccination teams. Of the 35,000 people who are assigned to prioritized group 1 in the Munich district, 3,600 are housed in homes. “If an appointment cannot take place there because of an outbreak, for example, the remaining vaccine doses are released for the centers,” he explained.
The first appointments at the vaccination centers will take place from Saturday to Tuesday in Haar, Unterschleißheim (40 each) and Oberhaching (70). However, all are already taken. It is therefore advisable to regularly check the District Office’s website for activated appointments. The district office expects that these will always be quickly booked out in the coming week. In addition, the information letters to all district residents over 80 years of age have now been sent out by post and should reach those affected in the next few days. The district’s fourth vaccination center is being built in Planegg. A site near Maria Eich, west of the railway, was chosen as the location. Göbel assumes that container operation can begin at the beginning of February.
The district office has registered two more deaths after being infected with the corona virus. There are two men between their mid-70s and early 80s. Both people last lived in different care facilities and died in hospital. The district office reports significant previous illnesses. The district office has to correct the number of new infections after a software problem. According to new calculations, there were 73 new infections fewer than the originally 210 reported cases on Wednesday. With the 66 other cases registered on Thursday, there is a total of 9,438 confirmed infections since the beginning of the pandemic. There were therefore doubly offset data sets from 22 municipalities. Most new infections reported on Thursday Unterschleißheim (20). help
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The district administrator continued to describe the number of infections as “far too high for the lockdown phase”. However, he has already digested the shock of the past few days when the district was repeatedly reported a deep red seven-day incidence of over 200. Because this turned out to be an error message due to a system change. The numbers were far too high and some cases had apparently been counted twice. According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the value on Thursday, which indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants have been infected in the past seven days, was 137.5. Göbel assumes, however, that the numbers in the district are actually somewhat higher than this value currently indicates. “Many were on vacation somewhere, and we also have the imponderability of mutated virus versions,” he said. The State Office for Public Health gave the incidence on Thursday at 148.6.
Jörg Spennemann, Head of Infrastructure and Health, confirmed the IT problem. New software has been used since January 1, and there are difficulties at the interfaces. “The duplicates can not be filtered out,” he said, other health authorities have better reporting software, others none at all. He warns that there will be a major software change in the near future. “In practice, it is not that there is a problem somewhere.”
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