There are contradicting information about the new suspected cases in Hesse with the Coronavirus variant Omikron.

The Frankfurt Health Office speaks of two new cases, while Health Minister Kai Klose (Die Grünen) reported three other suspected infected people on Twitter in the early morning.

When asked by the FAZ, he confirmed this number at noon.

According to this, the gene samples from seven people are currently being sequenced.

The Frankfurt virologist Sandra Ciesek announced four of them on Sunday evening via Twitter.

A suspected case had previously been confirmed after sequencing.

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The health department speaks of six suspected cases in total.

Ciesek has taken the morning tweet from Klose on her account and indirectly confirmed his information.

You and your staff evaluate the gene samples.

Three people were in South Africa, one person came to Germany from Zimbabwe.

Two suspected cases are secondary cases of two sick people.

They would have been infected in Germany.

According to the health department, all those affected are in isolation at home, as reported by the dpa.

Hospitalization incidence is falling

There are more corona patients in intensive care beds than ever in the past few weeks. There are also more patients with Covid-19 in the normal wards. The seven-day incidence also continues to climb, if only slightly. The hospitalization incidence, on the other hand, has fallen again and is 3.94 after 4.3 a week ago. It reflects the number of Covid patients admitted to clinics within a week. A Hessian district remains above the 500 mark, while the vaccination rate is still barely making any progress.

According to the Ministry of Social Affairs, 304 Covid patients were last in intensive care units after 295 the previous day and 180 four weeks ago. Regardless of this, local capacity limits have been reached for some time, for example at the University Clinic in Giessen. And that doesn't just apply to intensive care beds for Covid patients, for whom the threshold is 200. 841 beds in Hessian normal wards are occupied by people who have been proven to have been infected with the coronavirus or who are suspected of having this, 23 more than the day before. Four weeks ago there was talk of 506 normal beds occupied by Covid patients.

There is a simple reason why the Ministry of Social Affairs regularly uses data from the previous day when it comes to bed occupancy: it only receives the new figures after its update has been published. The German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive and Emergency Medicine Divi speaks of 293 corona patients in intensive care beds, 129 of whom are invasively ventilated. However, the Divi regularly reports lower data than the country for this guideline value; This is justified with different counting methods. The second benchmark, the so-called hospitalization incidence, is 4.12 according to the ministry and has been falling slightly for days.

59.4 percent of the patients treated with Covid-19 in intensive care units in Hessen are only partially vaccinated or not vaccinated at all and confirm the phrase "pandemic of the unvaccinated". 34.9 percent are fully vaccinated. This value has risen in the past few weeks. This has increasingly to do with the diminishing effectiveness of the vaccine after a few months and in many cases also with the fact that people have not been able to develop adequate immune protection because of other diseases or because their immune system is suppressed by medication. The vaccination status is unknown in 5.7 percent. A comparatively high value in view of the numbers from the previous weeks.

The vaccination rate stagnates after a minimal increase.

67.5 percent of the Hessian population are vaccinated, for people over the age of twelve it is 76.1 percent, as the state reports.

Experts believe that 85 to 90 percent are necessary to break the fourth wave.

Most recently, the city of Frankfurt had to stop special vaccination campaigns due to a lack of vaccines.

As the ministry further reports, the Hessian health authorities recorded 1767 new infections overnight after positive PCR tests

after 811 four weeks ago.

There were also 18 deaths related to Covid-19, a very high figure.

The seven-day incidence, on the other hand, fell to a good 273 after 278 the day before, four weeks ago it was 123. The Odenwald has the most cases under 100,000 inhabitants registered within a week with 508, followed by Bergstrasse with 384 and Frankfurt with 346.