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Hildburghausen / Erfurt (dpa) - In the nationwide Corona hotspot number one, the Hildburghausen district, the situation remains tense - not only because of the further increase in the number of infections.
District Administrator Thomas Müller (CDU) is under police protection after threats on social media.
The police has started investigation.
There are currently no suspects, said a police spokeswoman on Friday.
The patrol activity in the city with almost 12,000 inhabitants, in which there has been a lockdown with strict exit restrictions and closed schools and kindergartens since Wednesday due to the pandemic, has been increased.
In the district on the border with Bavaria, as of Friday, the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants increased to around 630 within one week (previous day: 602.9).
That is the highest value in Germany.
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On Thursday evening, the police moved out to work at the regional corona test station.
There was a call on social media to block the smear site, said Mayor Tilo Kummer (left) of the dpa, which the police spokeswoman confirmed.
The security forces were then on site, but a blockade could not be determined, she said.
Who is behind this is initially unclear.
He found out about the threat against him last Sunday, said District Administrator Müller of the dpa.
According to the police, he has been under police protection since Thursday.
She suspects a connection with the corona protective measures.
Several hundred people protested against this on Wednesday evening in the city center.
According to the police, they marched through the streets singing, many of them not wearing mouth and nose protection.
The police eventually used pepper spray to break up the crowd.
It was still unclear who organized the demonstration, in which, according to security circles, local AfD representatives and supporters of right-wing extremist groups also participated.
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The number of active positive corona cases in the district with 63,000 inhabitants was 853 according to the district office on Friday.All eight available intensive care beds in the district are currently occupied, as shown in the register of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) As of Friday morning.
In Hildburghausen there is a general hospital for basic care and a specialist clinic for psychiatry and neurology.
Two of the eight patients treated in intensive care units are Covid-19 patients.
These had to be ventilated.
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