Good news for everyone in Frankfurt: Your city will move into easing level 2 for the country on Monday.

This was announced by the Ministry of Social Affairs.

As a result, hosts are allowed to entertain guests inside again, whereby a fresh negative corona test is mandatory.

In retail, a mask is generally required, but a test is only recommended.

From now on there are 22 regions in the second stage.

Only the cities of Kassel, Offenbach and Wiesbaden and the Waldeck-Frankenberg district remain in the first stage for the time being.

The so-called federal emergency brake is a thing of the past in all of Hesse.

Thorsten Winter

Business editor and internet coordinator in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.

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    Meanwhile, there are mostly positive numbers on the infection process in Hesse.

    The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) reports 235 new cases after 352 a week ago.

    Since the beginning of the pandemic a year ago, 288,258 people in Hesse have been infected with the Covid-19-causing corona virus, which is around 4.3 percent of the state's population.

    Four more deaths related to Covid-19 are added after six a week ago.

    The central indicator of incidence fell by just under one point to 28.7 overnight.

    A week ago, the RKI reported a good 42 new infections among 100,000 residents that had become known within a week.

    Only Thuringia and Saarland have more new cases than Hesse.

    Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is best at eight.

    In Hesse, the Fulda district, which has been a hotspot for a long time, has the lowest value.

    At the back of the table are the Werra-Meißner and Waldeck-Frankenberg districts as well as the state capital.

    However, all of them are well below the threshold value of 50.

    44.5 percent of the Hessians with the first vaccination

    Meanwhile, the state's vaccination offensive is showing success, at least in terms of the first vaccination rate: 44.5 percent of people in Hesse have received their first vaccination against the corona virus.

    This corresponds to the federal average.

    The front runner is Saarland with 47.9, Rhineland-Palatinate with 43.1.

    For the fully vaccinated, however, Hessen lags behind the federal mean.

    Hessen has 18.2 percent, which is 2.5 percentage points below the average.

    Almost 2.8 million people in Hessen are vaccinated at least once.

    Doctors look critical for prioritization

    In view of the quantities of vaccine available, the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KV) Hessen is concerned about the end of the prioritization. "Even without the prioritization being lifted, the situation in the practices is problematic, which is not due to the fact that the practices couldn't manage it organizationally, but because politicians cannot solve the problem of vaccination orders and regular, plannable deliveries," said KV boss Frank Dastych on Wednesday in Frankfurt.

    With the end of prioritization next Monday, anyone over the age of 16 can be vaccinated by a general practitioner or specialist. But this offer remains theory as long as there is as little vaccine available as before, according to the KV. "Now the problem is finally being blamed on the practices," said Dastych. As a result of the abolition, not a single dose of vaccine will come to Hessen. "The quantities are not enough at the back and front."