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Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) - Almost all districts and independent cities in North Rhine-Westphalia are above the Corona weekly incidence of 100 and will soon have to reckon with the tightened measures of the nationwide emergency brake.
According to figures from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), only Coesfeld (92.9) and Höxter (73.4) were below the incidence of 100 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in seven days on Friday morning.
The nationwide seven-day incidence climbed to 181. As of Thursday, the value was 173.4.
According to the RKI, 6940 new infections were added in North Rhine-Westphalia within 24 hours.
The number of deaths related to the coronavirus rose by 43 to 15 159.
The front runner in terms of weekly incidence was the city of Herne in the Ruhr area, which is the only city in North Rhine-Westphalia to have exceeded the threshold of 300.
16 other regions alone were above the value of 200.
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The new Infection Protection Act comes into force this Friday, in counties and cities with a seven-day incidence of over 100 in the past three days, the federal emergency brake should automatically apply from Saturday.
This was announced by the Federal Ministry of the Interior in Berlin.
In the affected regions, the responsible authorities would have to announce the action of the emergency brake from Saturday on Friday.
NRW Health Minister Karl-Josef Laumann (CDU) wants to explain the Corona situation and the current status of vaccinations to the press on Friday.
Among other things, the emergency brake provides for exit restrictions from 10 p.m.
Classroom teaching in schools should usually be stopped at an incidence of 165.
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