Since the beginning of the week, many people in Frankfurt and in the Offenbach district have been practicing a new looseness.
Due to a sustained incidence of less than 100 cases under 100,000 recorded within a week, the federal emergency brake is history there and with it the night curfew.
The state has included the Main metropolis and the eastern district in the first stage.
“Click and Meet” without a test requirement is possible in retail, landlords are allowed to serve customers outside again, but only after submitting a negative Corona test.
Hotel and camping operators are also enjoying more freedom again.
The start was cautious.
Thorsten Winter
Business editor and internet coordinator in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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That was already the case before in Butzbach in the Wetterau, which slipped into the first stage a week before Frankfurt and, like the Hochtaunuskreis, now into the second, the general shopping without a test, but with a mask, as well as indoor catering and events with up to 200 participants allowed. According to the Ministry of Social Affairs, the Vogelsberg will join the Wetterau and the Hochtaunus on Wednesday. The rules for the two levels can be found here. Regardless of this, the central Corona indicator in Hesse is still clearly above the federal average and above the value on the day the lockdown was decided in March.
Meanwhile, at first glance, very positive information about the infection process in Hesse has arrived: The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) in Berlin reports only 89 new cases that became known overnight after 240 a week ago.
However, not only the general delay in reporting by test laboratories, which is always noticeable at the beginning of the week, must be taken into account.
The RKI pointed out that fewer people went to the doctor on public holidays such as Whit Monday, which also meant fewer samples were taken and there were fewer laboratory tests.
Therefore, according to the RKI, fewer new infections are reported to the authorities.
1400 fewer active cases
The progressive recoveries are unaffected by this.
According to estimates by the RKI, around 1,400 people infected with the corona virus in Hesse more than Monday have now survived Covid-19.
Around 13,200 cases are still considered active, so the infection is not over.
283,959 people in the centrally located state have been infected since the pandemic began, a good 4.3 percent of the state's population.
So far there have been officially 7210 deaths in connection with the pandemic.
Three were added overnight after ten a week ago.
In 13 districts as well as in Darmstadt and Frankfurt, the state level one rules apply.
In all other regions, the emergency brake still applies, but the district of Kassel will say goodbye on Thursday.
He advances to level one.
Only four countries are worse off
For Hessen, the RKI reports an incidence of 69 after 87 a week ago.
The federal average is 58 and only Thuringia, Baden-Württemberg, Saarland and Saxony do worse.
Schleswig-Holstein is best at 30.
The Wetterau lies just three points above it.
In the other regions, the Waldeck-Frankenberg district had the highest incidence of 141.9.
The cities of Wiesbaden (121.7) and Kassel (108.3) were also above the value of 100.
The districts of Darmstadt-Dieburg (38.3), Gießen (45.1), Hochtaunus (49.0) and the Main-Taunus district (47.8) were also below the threshold of 50.
40.6 percent of Hessians with the first vaccination
Meanwhile, the state's vaccination offensive is now showing success, at least in terms of the first vaccination rate: 40.6 percent of people in Hesse have received their first vaccination against the corona virus. That is 0.3 percentage points more than the federal average. The front runner is the Saarland with 44.2; Rhineland-Palatinate comes to 38.7. In the case of the fully vaccinated, however, Hessen lags behind the federal mean. Hessen has 12.7 percent, which is 1.6 percentage points below the average.