The incidence rate and number of hospitalizations have been reassembled in the country. In the arrondisse of Meissen, in the Saxony, one of the most affected, denial and lassitude mingle.
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For a few days, the daily reports that the Robert-Koch Institute devotes to the Covid-19 epidemic in Germany are already-seen. Thursday, November 4, it was learned that the incidence rate was 154 cases per 100,000 population, that 2,226 patients were hospitalized in intensive care and that 165 people were dead in the last twenty-four hours. In his report on November 4, 2020, the Robert-Koch Institute gave similar numbers similar.
Geographically, the dynamics of the epidemic also recalls that of the autumn 2020. As at the time, the virus diffuses with a spectacular speed near the Austrian and Czech borders, inside a A sometimes wide band of more than 100 kilometers. This is the case of the arrondissement of Meissen, west of Dresden (Saxony). Thursday, the incidence rate was 506 cases per 100,000 population. Of the 294 arrondissements of the country, only eight had a higher rate.
On the spot, let’s confess it, the severity of the situation does not jump to the eyes. On the contrary. In Meissen’s stores, the mandatory port of the mask is globally respected, but the “forgetfulness” do not always take place on reminders to order. “We are not going to lie: there is relaxation. Myself, I stopped doing the police systematically. Today, if a client enters without mask, I close my eyes,” admits a cavist of the center. city, before adding: “We finally fuck the peace! The rules that change permanently, it is no longer possible.”
“Extension of the 2G rule”
More than the outbreak of the epidemic, welcomed with more resignation than fear, it is especially the prospect of new restrictions that animates conversations on Wednesday in Meissen. Decided the day before by the regional government of the Saxony, these will result in “the extension of the rule of 2G”, as the title, that morning, the local daily. In concrete terms, it means that access to certain places, such as restaurants, cinemas or concert halls, will be reserved for vaccinated people (“GeiMPFT”) or heales (“Genesen”). On the other hand, those that are only tested (“getsset”) will no longer be able to enter.
While the Saxony is the land where the vaccination rate is the lowest (56% of the population, 10 points less than the national average), the measure has a clear objective: to encourage the most refractory possible to be vaccinated to prevent the number of serious cases soaring and avoiding a saturation of the hospital system.
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