A sort ofHessian health authorities also have this on Saturday Robert Koch Institute There are more cases of new crown than reported a week ago. The 7-day incidence rate has also increased.She testified well In one week, 173 new corona infections among 100,000 residents were recorded. The value was 141 7 days ago. The federal average is 277. This is due to the high incidence in Saxony, southern Bavaria and Thuringia. The rising incidence usually attracts more Covid patients to the clinic.
Following 1701 cases a week ago and 614 cases a month ago, RKI reported a new PCR test positive in Hessen in 1959. Since the beginning of the pandemic in March last year, nearly 375,000 people in Hessen have been formally infected with the virus variant. coronavirus Has been infected. There have been 12 new Covid-19-related deaths, twice the number of deaths reported 7 days ago. All in all, according to RKI data, 7,974 people in Hessen died or were infected with the coronavirus. That is 0.12% of the population of the country.
High hospitalization rate
The Ministry of Social Affairs is usually unable to provide up-to-date data on the new guidelines for the new crown policy in Hessen; The corresponding number will only appear after the update is releasedRecently, in Hessen, 224 coronavirus patients were in the intensive care unit and 635 were in the normal ward the day before. This is the state on Friday. The chairman of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (Divi) talked about 210 beds on Saturday, 100 of which are invasively ventilated. However, the data it has reported in the past few days is also lower than that of the country. This is proved by different counting methods.
The so-called hospitalization rate, that is, the number of new coronary pneumonia patients hospitalized for every 100,000 residents in a week, was 3.72 after 3.78. The highest value so far is slightly higher than 4, and the threshold is 8.
Among the eligible Hessians over 12 years old, 77.2% were considered vaccinated, an increase of 2.5 percentage points from 7 days ago. According to RKI, this is 66.6% of the country’s population, up from 66.2% a week ago. 4.8% of people received booster vaccination.
Toward the epidemic
In view of the corona data, the three Green Party health ministers from Hesse, Brandenburg and Baden-Wurttemberg jointly called for the epidemic to be expanded nationwide. You are opposed to a possible future traffic light government plan, and the Green Party is also negotiating.
“In view of the current infection dynamics and the burden of hospitals, some areas are already on the verge of absolute overload, and the nationwide epidemic should be prolonged,” said a statement from Kai Klose (Hesse) and Ursula Nonnemacher. (Brandenburg) and Manne Lucha (Baden-Wurttemberg), available to the German News Agency. “This ensures that all measures required by the experts can be implemented.”
