display
A woman from the Hanover region tested positive for Corona twice within a few weeks.
The region administration announced that the person affected was infected with the mutated virus B.1.1.7.
The woman has connections to several daycare centers and a primary school in Hanover, as the health department announced on Friday.
It ordered quarantine for at least 120 contacts.
The quarantine of contact persons for whom there is no negative test result after 14 days will now be extended by a further week.
The infected woman tested positive for the first time on November 27, the second corona infection was found on January 11.
According to the health department, the patient is not known to have had any contact with England.
The question of who the woman was infected from remains open.
According to the health department, the chain of infection has now almost been stopped.
All developments on Corona in the live ticker: