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German officials are stepping up their calls for others to join containment efforts after an epidemic among migrant staff in an m in Bavaria, which has provided the latest warning that the coronavirus pandemic is over.
“The increase in the number of infections is a concern,” Helge Braun, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s staff leader, told journalists in Berlin after consultations with state leaders.
Germany plans to make detection, rather than self-isolation, mandatory for travellers returning from high-risk areas, as Europe’s largest economy seeks to restrict the number of infections brought from the holidays. A high infection rate in the summer makes a new beak more likely in the fall, Braun said.
In the Bavarian town of Mamming, the government is expanding evidence after more than 170 employees out of about 500 on a local farm tested positive for the virus. Most of the other people are Romanian immigrants and the facility has been quarantined mandatory with a steel fence.
Quarantined agricultural housing in Mamming, Germany, on July 26.
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“We will have to make sure that the many remote instances in Germany do not become a momentary wave of kindness and stealth,” Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Soeder said at a press convention in Munich on Monday, warning others who stick to hygiene and social estrangement. Rules. “We can’t save him from coronavirus at all, but our purpose will have to be to identify epidemics in time.”
More than 60% of recent new cases are in Bavaria, North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Wuerttemberg, the Robert Koch Institute said in its most recent report on the virus published Sunday night. The disease spread indicator was 1.22 on Sunday, up from 1.24 the day before. Any value greater than 1.0 means that infections are increasing.
Germany has been widely praised for its immediate reaction to the virus, but officials are on alert for a new outbreak.
There were 206,667 infections in the country with the largest population in the European Union, to more than 270,000 in Spain and almost 250,000 in Italy, according to the knowledge of Johns Hopkins University.
While new infections increased over the weekend to around 700 per day, it is still well below the peak of about 7,000 at the peak spread in March and April. Monday’s new instances fell to 389. The summer holiday season has become a source of fear in Europe, with a specific focus in Spain and other popular destinations with the highest infection rates.
Health Minister Jens Spahn announced Monday that he planned to introduce evidence for travellers returning to Germany from high-risk areas.
“We want to prevent others from inadvertently infecting other people and creating new outbreaks of the disease,” Spahn said on Twitter.
At the Austrian beach hotel in Wolfgangsee, a favourite summer destination for many Germans, in addition to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the government is grappling with an epidemic that began among hotel apprentices and spread their drinks after work.
These cases threaten the government’s hopes for a successful summer season that would compensate for the sudden end of the ski season in March due to outbreaks in some resorts.
A Driving Control Site established on Saturday required around 1,200 sweeps of tourism and visitors over the weekend, regional fitness secretary Christine Haberlander said in an interview with public radio Oe1. There were 53 positive effects, with around 400 pending effects.
The German government has already had to develop the testing capacity at airports. Mandatory testing would be the next step.
“I believe that this legal responsibility is vital and necessary, and we will have to see how we can find a solution nationally,” Bavaria’s Health Minister Melanie Huml, a qualified physician, told ZDF tv On Monday. “We acted very, very temporally and very, very decisive” to involve the epidemic in Mamming.
– With Boris Groendahl’s