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Koblenz (dpa / lrs) - In large parts of Rhineland-Palatinate, citizens are no longer allowed to leave the house at night without good reason due to Corona.
24 of the 36 independent cities and districts in Rhineland-Palatinate currently exceed a corona incidence of 100. If this is the case for three days in a row, they are affected by the state's "emergency brake" with nightly exit restrictions.
The planned federal “emergency brake” would also provide for this.
Two independent cities were even above an incidence of 200 on Thursday: Ludwigshafen with 235.7 and Worms with 232.2, as the state investigation office in Koblenz announced.
The very sparsely populated Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm had the lowest value with 57.5.
The nationwide incidence rose slightly by Thursday to 131.6 infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the past seven days (as of 2:10 p.m.).
This is still the highest level since January 12th.
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1092 new corona infections were reported in Rhineland-Palatinate within 24 hours, as the state investigation office announced on Thursday.
Since the pandemic began in the country at the end of February 2020, there have been 127 676 laboratory-confirmed infections.
13,638 citizens in Rhineland-Palatinate are currently infected with the highly contagious corona virus.
The number of reported patients who died with or from the virus rose within 24 hours by 12 to 3434. The country has almost 4.1 million inhabitants.
The Rhineland-Palatinate Hospital Society announced: "The stress in the intensive care units is increasing."
According to its own information, the Ministry of Health in Mainz asked the clinics in the country not to postpone operations that were not absolutely necessary in order to have enough capacity for corona patients.
Emergencies are not affected.
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Of the 164 Covid-19 patients currently being treated in intensive care units in Rhineland-Palatinate, 87 have to be ventilated invasively, according to data from the intensive care register of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine (Divi) on Thursday (as of 12.15 p.m.) ).
According to the Ministry of Health in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate is “still in a top position” in a country comparison, with a good 20 percent of intensive care beds available (as of Thursday morning).
The increasing incidences, however, led to more admissions in the clinics with a delay of almost two weeks.
"In addition, there are signs that the length of stay in the intensive care units, which are now on average younger, is being prolonged due to the sometimes difficult courses," it said.
It is not intensive care beds and ventilators that are scarce, "but the staff who have been exposed to high stress since the beginning of the pandemic".
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State investigation office for corona case numbers
DIVI intensive register dashboard at district level