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After several months of corona-related closings, the first cautious openings were made at the beginning of the week.
For example in retail, where after three months the shops welcomed customers again on Monday morning.
“It really feels like a new store,” said Lydia Ostwald, 49, branch manager of the Sinn fashion chain in Essen.
The first customer came by ten minutes before the four-story clothing store opened - "quite by chance after a doctor's visit," says Ella Schauries, 59, from Essen.
She is very happy to be able to buy “a particle on International Women's Day”.
"The yellow sweater is already laughing at me," she said, looking at a sweater expert in the entrance area.
Contact details for shopping
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Shopping with an appointment: Before starting, customers have to write their name and address on a card.
An employee notes the time on the card and gives a counting mark so that both can be returned when leaving the shop after no more than an hour.
The whole thing runs smoothly.
15 minutes later there are already 15 customers in the store.
A telephone reservation with a fixed shopping time is also possible with this dealer.
Auction of tickets
Visits to the zoo are also allowed again, for example in Münster.
"732 tickets were auctioned for the first day," said zoo spokesman Jan Ruch of the German press agency.
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The first few hours were completely stress-free.
The zoo put 1000 tickets up for auction, so the quota was not exhausted.
Zoo fans paid an average of EUR 28.40 for a ticket.
"A possible 15 to 99 euros were possible," said Ruch.
Some would have also offered the maximum amount.
It is currently mandatory to wear medical mouth and nose protection on the entire site.
From Tuesday, a visit to the zoo is possible after a time slot has been booked online in advance.
Some of the large museums in North Rhine-Westphalia can still take some time to open.
Here, too, visitors have to book an appointment in advance.
Tickets for a Heinz Mack exhibition have been available in the Düsseldorf Museum Kunstpalast since Monday (March 8th), which will open two days later.
Incidence value increases slightly
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From Wednesday, visitors to the Folkwang Museum in Essen can book their time slot to visit an exhibition with large-scale installations by the artist Martin Kippenberger.
The prerequisite for the relaxed measures is that the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants is below the 100 mark within seven days.
In the past seven days there were 65.8 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, as the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced on Monday morning on its website.
That was 0.7 more than the day before and 1.4 more than a week ago.
This means that NRW is roughly on a par with the national average (68).
The number of new infections also increased in a weekly comparison: within 24 hours, the health authorities recently reported 849 new infections, 45 more than the RKI published last Monday.
According to the information, the number of corona-related deaths rose by three to 13,380.
Highest incidence value in Düren
Düren has the highest incidence value in North Rhine-Westphalia with 128.5, the values are also high in the Märkisches Kreis (126.8) and Remscheid (122.2).
The metropolis of Cologne has a value of 66.3 and the state capital Düsseldorf of 52.3.
In Coesfeld it is 27.2, in Bielefeld 32.6 and in Bottrop 34. A week ago the situation was still best in Münster, but in the Westphalian city the value has climbed significantly in the past few days by around 15 to 45.7 .
A total of 13 of the 53 districts and independent cities in North Rhine-Westphalia were below the 50 mark, from which regional easing would be possible.
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In the vaccination campaign against Corona in North Rhine-Westphalia, educators and child minders are now involved - and many relieved their arm for the first injection on Monday.
Vaccinated more than a million people in North Rhine-Westphalia
This included Bianca Ahlemeier, a childminder by profession, who looks after five children between the ages of nine months and three and a half years.
She was one of the first in the vaccination center in Cologne on Monday morning.
AstraZeneca's vaccine was previously only given to people under 65 years of age, but this age limit has now been removed.
Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) therefore expects that the vaccinations for the younger groups will not progress as quickly as initially assumed.
In the meantime, more than a million people in North Rhine-Westphalia have been vaccinated against the coronavirus.