Today in Rhein-Main: The incidence is stagnating

Good evening,

Manfred Koehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and editor in charge of the business magazine Metropol.

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do we have to write at this point that reading helps? We in the writing guild always say that. Anyone who was on the ball in the news in the past few days did not have to be surprised on Monday that corona tests are usually suddenly no longer free of charge. But some of them hadn't noticed and were stunned by what colleague Marie Lisa Kehler found out during a tour of Frankfurt test centers in the morning. You now have to pay 15 euros and more, a lot of money, if you just want to know briefly whether something bad is hidden behind a cough. A little tip so that you get a monetary benefit from reading this newsletter: Buy a self-test, it costs far less, and if it is positive, the test in the pharmacy will not cost you anything.

The purpose of the new regulation is that unvaccinated people turn around because of the costs and still get vaccinated.

It remains to be seen whether this will work.

Part of the overall picture is that the seven-day incidence no longer drops significantly.

A week ago it was 64 in Hessen, now it is 62.

These values ​​are not really low, but the picture that the worst is behind us is increasingly prevailing.

This also applies to the economy of the Frankfurt metropolitan area, where, according to a new economic survey, the mood among entrepreneurs and managers is back to pre-crisis levels.

That is nice, but it is only a hope that we will all survive the autumn passably.

And in addition, top Hessian politicians also have a say in the exploratory talks for a new coalition in the Bundestag, as our state parliament correspondent Ewald Hetrodt reports - some even hope for a ministerial office +++ Rita Falk's “Rehragout Rendezvous” is still the best-selling Buch in the +++ region, citizens can now participate in a solar park in Niedernhausen, with 100 euros.

I wish you a pleasant evening

Yours Manfred Köhler

The

for Tuesday

Rain falls from thick clouds.

The maximum temperatures only reach 13 degrees.

At night it was drier and around 5 degrees.

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Wolfgang Busch

, former Chancellor of the Goethe University Frankfurt (80);

, from 2005 to November 2020 President of the Chamber of Crafts Frankfurt-Rhein-Main, Honorary President of the Hessian Crafts Day and holder of the plaque of honor of the City of Frankfurt (77);

, from 2017 to December 2020 chairman of the hr-Rundfunkrat, former managing director of the Wiesbaden Chamber of Crafts (71);

(CDU), honorary city councilor, from 2007 to September 2021 social affairs officer for the city of Frankfurt (62);

(CDU), District Administrator of the Main-Taunus-Kreis (52).