COVID-19 pandemic in Lower Saxony

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The COVID-19 pandemic occurs in Lower Saxony since 2020 as part of the global COVID-19 pandemic and in particular the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany on.

The first confirmed infection was on February 29 in Uetze in the Hanover region .

Tents as an emergency room in March 2020 in front of the Henriettenstift hospital in Hanover

background

The COVID-19 pandemic was triggered by the novel disease COVID-19 and first appeared at the end of December 2019 in the megacity of Wuhan in the Chinese province of Hubei . The disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus from the Coronaviridae group and belongs to the group of respiratory diseases . At the end of January 2020, the first cases of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany occurred at Webasto in Bavaria . From March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified the outbreak of the novel coronavirus as a global pandemic .

Infections and deaths

Spread of COVID-19 in the districts and cities of Lower Saxony

Chronicle of the spread

  • February 29, 2020 (Saturday): First confirmed case in Lower Saxony: In Uetze in the Hanover region, the infection of a man who had previously been in northern Italy was confirmed.
  • March 3, 2020 (Tuesday): Three new infections became known in Lower Saxony. This is a contact person for the previous, first case (from February 29) from the Hanover region and men from the districts of Cuxhaven (returnees from Northern Italy) and Ammerland (participation in the carnival near Heinsberg ).
  • March 4, 2020 (Wednesday): The number of known infected people has risen to 10. No source of infection could be identified for a sick woman from the district of Leer who works as a local nurse. There was also a family man from the county of Bentheim , who was probably infected from an infection cluster in the neighboring Netherlands. Furthermore, two people from the Rotenburg (Wümme) district who had returned from a holiday in South Tyrol tested positive . A man from Oldenburg recognized as infected had also celebrated carnival at Heinsberg. On Wednesday evening, the Hanover region confirmed that a second contact person from the first patient in Uetze was infected.
  • March 5, 2020 (Thursday): The number of known infected people has risen to 13. A teacher from Stade tested positive. The district of Celle reported an infected man from Celle who had contact with the first case in Lower Saxony from Uetze near Hanover. A Braunschweig woman who was recognized as infected had returned from a vacation in Gran Canaria .
  • March 7, 2020 (Saturday): In the Hildesheim district , a couple has been confirmed to be infected with the corona virus. The two had previously been in Tyrol .
  • March 9, 2020 (Monday): The first case of COVID-19 is confirmed in the Hameln-Pyrmont district . A 48-year-old man was skiing in Austria with a group of nine , of which another participant showed symptoms of an infection two days after his return and also tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
  • March 11, 2020 (Wednesday): The Northeim district confirmed three newly infected people, including two men who have returned from the Ischgl ski area . One case is attributed to the city of Uslar . The district of Göttingen reported the first case of infection in the Osterode am Harz area . In Braunschweig there was a suspected case in a prison for the first time, the prisoner was then isolated and general lock-up was ordered for all prisoners in the Braunschweig penal institution .
  • March 12, 2020 (Thursday): After a second confirmed case had occurred in the Hannover 96 professional squad , a two-week quarantine was ordered for the entire professional team.
  • March 13, 2020 (Friday): The first resident tested positive in a Diakonie nursing home in Wolfsburg . In the further course, at least 79 residents tested positive and 43 died. Because of the deaths, the Braunschweig public prosecutor's office started investigations against the Diakonie for negligent homicide .
  • March 27, 2020 (Friday): The health department of the district of Oldenburg carried out a mass test in a retirement home in Wildeshausen after the virus was detected in a resident who had recently died. 23 residents and 18 caregivers were infected with the coronavirus. As a result, the home manager was released and the public prosecutor's office in Oldenburg and the Delmenhorst police investigated the operator on suspicion of a violation of the Infection Protection Act . At least two deaths were related to the coronavirus in the home.
  • March 29, 2020 (Sunday): It became known that 14 residents and eight employees tested positive in a nursing home in Herzberg am Harz .
  • 2 April 2020 (Thursday): An infected inhabitant of a Stader died retirement home. On the weekend of 28/29 March 2020, one resident of the retirement home died while seven residents and one employee were infected.
  • April 4, 2020 (Saturday): After a warning, employees of the health service of the city of Osnabrück and the district of Osnabrück checked an elderly care facility in Bramsche . It became known that 42 residents and seven employees had been infected and residents had died. After the death of six residents of the geriatric care facility who tested positive, the police and the Osnabrück public prosecutor started investigations into suspected negligent homicide.
  • April 6, 2020 (Monday) : It became known that two residents of a retirement home in Gadenstedt died of the consequences of a corona infection. Two residents of the home had died from it the week before.
  • April 7, 2020 (Tuesday) : According to the Corona crisis team of the State of Lower Saxony, the number of new infections on that day with 226 cases was only slightly higher than the number of newly recovered with 221 cases. Nevertheless, according to the crisis team, no general trend reversal could yet be derived from these daily values. 900 sick people were treated in the hospital. 228 patients were in the intensive care unit , 164 of whom were artificially ventilated .
  • April 9, 2020 (Thursday) : The Lower Saxony State Health Office reported that of the 7,104 laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 cases to date, an estimated 2576 people (36.3%) have recovered.
  • April 20, 2020 (Monday) : Wolfsburg was the first city in Lower Saxony to introduce a mask requirement . It applied in public spaces. This was decided by the city's crisis management team on April 18th. Shortly afterwards, on April 27, the mask requirement was introduced in local transport and retail for the entire state.
  • May 15, 2020 (Friday) : In the district of Leer, a COVID-19 outbreak occurred at the celebration of the opening of a restaurant in the municipality of Moormerland . In this context, 34 people had tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 by May 29. Over 200 people were in quarantine as contact persons on May 29, 2020. Presumably, hygiene rules were violated at this celebration. There is also the suspicion that the operator has not fully complied with the documentation requirements.
  • May 26, 2020 (Tuesday) : According to media reports, the Osnabrück public prosecutor's office was investigating corona infections at a slaughterhouse in Dissen for disregarding orders under the Infection Protection Act with regard to distance requirements and the accommodation of slaughterhouse employees . Before that, more than half of the around 280 employees had tested positive for the corona virus within two weeks.
  • May 29, 2020 (Friday) : The state government's corona crisis team announced that 47 employees and 25 contact persons had tested positive for the corona virus in the UPS distribution center with around 1000 employees in Langenhagen since May 14 . Infections in a day care center and school in Hanover are also related, since employees apparently infected family members. By June 12, a total of 156 employees had tested positive.
  • May 30, 2020 (Saturday) : After some private celebrations in Göttingen, 33 new corona infections were detected, most of which were members of several large families. A 67-year-old man had to be artificially ventilated.
  • June 4, 2020 (Thursday) : In Göttingen, on May 23, 2020, more than 100 residents of high-rise buildings in the Iduna center, a social hotspot , contracted the virus. They were accused of not having adhered to the hygiene and distance rules at unauthorized, private family celebrations on the occasion of the Muslim sugar festival , but this is denied. You had contact with at least 200 other people. Some of the victims are Roma families from Kosovo who came to Germany when the war in Kosovo broke out in the late 1990s.
  • June 7th, 2020 (Sunday) : On June 7th, 2020, the "Staff for Extraordinary Events in the City of Göttingen" decided that classroom teaching should be offered at all schools sponsored by the City of Göttingen, at independent schools in the city area and at IGS Bovenden up to and including Friday, June 12, 2020, to be prohibited because the number of people suffering from COVID-19 increased by 21 on June 6 in Göttingen.
  • June 13, 2020 (Saturday) : According to media reports, an infected nurse infected 28 people in a nursing home in Oyten , including 20 residents and eight nurses.
  • June 19, 2020 (Friday) : In Göttingen, the city quarantined 700 people in a high-rise complex until June 25, 2020 and had the entrances locked. The building is located a few hundred meters from the Iduna Center, which is also affected by infections. The ban on going out for the residents of the high-rise complex was monitored by the police and the public order office. 120 residents had tested positive for the virus in a mobile test center in front of the building in the days before. A spokesman for youth welfare in Göttingen described the living conditions in the high-rise as tight. There is inadequate hygiene and drug and alcohol problems.
  • June 20, 2020 (Saturday) : Several hundred residents of the locked high-rise complex in Göttingen who tested negative were tested again. During the day there were clashes between residents and police officers. Metal objects and pyrotechnics were thrown at the officers. Several residents tried to climb over bars and around 100 people tried to squeeze past police officers.
  • June 23, 2020 (Tuesday) : The Lower Saxony State Reception Authority announced that 21 residents and one employee of an aid organization are infected with the corona virus in the Friedland transit camp . At the time there were 190 asylum seekers and repatriates living there.
  • June 26, 2020 (Friday) : According to the order of the district of Oldenburg, a turkey slaughterhouse in Wildeshausen ceased operations for two weeks. The reason was a positive corona test in 46 employees. The 1,100 employees and their closest family members were quarantined for two weeks.
  • June 30, 2020 (Tuesday) : The number of people infected with the coronavirus in the Friedland transit camp rose to 48. All 400 residents and employees were then tested.
  • July 17, 2020 (Friday) : In Verden , nine corona cases occurred in a building complex of three houses with around 300 residents. 100 possible contact persons were tested and quarantined until the tests on July 18 showed that only one other resident had a positive result. The police watched the house entrances. For some families, the tests, results and release from quarantine were still pending.
  • July 19, 2020 (Sunday) : The Wiesenhof company commented on an outbreak of the coronavirus in a chicken slaughterhouse in Lohne in the Vechta district . There were 66 infected people among the workforce of around 1,300 employees, many of whom were infected in the company's cardboard packaging department. In the same week, there was an accumulation of cases in the Vechta district with 16 new corona infections within two days. Although the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within the past 7 days for the Vechta district was 41.26 on July 22 (the highest value nationwide at the time), the district decided not to close the slaughterhouse.
  • July 21, 2020 (Tuesday) : The number of infected people in a building complex in Verden increased to 12. They belonged to an extended family who lives in the building complex and in Dörverden .
  • July 30, 2020 (Thursday) : After five residents tested positive for the corona virus in a student dormitory in Clausthal-Zellerfeld , the district of Goslar quarantined the building. After further testing, the number of people infected rose to ten, including three contacts living outside the home.
  • August 19, 2020 (Wednesday) : Five warehouse workers at a logistics center of the furniture manufacturer Ikea in Elsdorf in the Rotenburg (Wümme) district tested positive for the corona virus. This increased the number of infected employees to 18. The employees also met in their free time and drove to the logistics center in car pools.

Cases of infection

Confirmed infections (cumulative) in Lower Saxony
(based on data from the RKI from the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany )

Confirmed infections (new cases) in Lower Saxony
(based on data from the RKI from the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany )

Number of newly known infections in the last 7 days based on 100,000 inhabitants. (7-day incidence) in Lower Saxony / 100,000 inhabitants

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Before March 1, 2020, there were no infections reported to the RKI in Lower Saxony
  2. ↑ a b Cases are listed here that were reported to the RKI via the reporting channel or official sources. Since this is a very dynamic situation, there may be deviations or delays between the RKI cases and information provided by other bodies, such as the federal states concerned or the World Health Organization (WHO).
  3. ↑ a b Due to the change on March 17th to only electronically reported cases, the number of cases was reduced

Deaths

As of July 3, 2020, according to official figures from the Robert Koch Institute, a total of 633 people died in Lower Saxony , 43 of them in a nursing home in Wolfsburg.

Confirmed deaths (cumulative) in Lower Saxony
(based on data from the RKI from the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany )

Confirmed deaths (daily) in Lower Saxony
(based on data from the RKI from the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany )

Official reactions and measures

General

Empty streets at midday on a weekday in Braunschweig, as a result of the official business
closings, March 2020
Empty motorways, like the A 2 on a Sunday afternoon near Braunschweig, March 2020

On March 10, 2020, Lower Saxony's education minister Grant Hendrik Tonne (SPD) instructed the around 3,000 schools in Lower Saxony not to take school trips to corona risk areas such as Italy and Iran or affected areas in China and South Korea. On March 11, 2020, Lower Saxony banned events with more than 1,000 participants, following other federal states and the recommendations of Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU). At the time, Lower Saxony's Minister of Social Affairs, Carola Reimann (SPD), spoke out against a general closure of schools and kindergartens.

On March 16, 2020, Lower Saxony closed schools, universities, day-care centers as well as state museums and theaters. In addition, the closure of the retail trade, cultural, sports, leisure and entertainment venues was announced on the day. Exceptions were the food supply, pharmacies, banks, weekly markets and the like. Also on March 16, 2020, Lower Saxony restricted visitors to clinics, retirement and nursing homes, and from March 17, 2020, people without a place of residence on the North Sea islands were excluded from ferry operations. Also on March 17, 2020, a general tourism ban was enacted, which stipulated a journey home by March 25 at the latest. Restaurants were allowed to open until March 20, 2020 under certain conditions. On March 23, 2020, Lower Saxony implemented the ban on contact in a general decree. A sales ban for garden centers came into force on March 23, 2020. At the same time, hardware stores were banned from selling goods to non-commercial customers. This ban led to cross-border shopping traffic, especially to Bremen and North Rhine-Westphalia , where there were no such bans. The regulation was therefore reversed with effect from April 4, 2020. Without the reopening of the garden centers, a large part of the harvest would have had to be destroyed in the main season of the industry, with effects also on the neighboring Netherlands . After frequent deaths in old people's and nursing homes, Lower Saxony's Minister of Social Affairs, Carola Reimann, issued a freeze on admission to all nursing homes in Lower Saxony on March 30, 2020.

Test centers and makeshift hospitals

Drive-in test center in an exhibition hall on the Hanover exhibition grounds , March 2020
Sampling in the drive-in test center at the Hanover exhibition center, April 2020

The Lower Saxony Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians opened corona test centers in 40 locations in Lower Saxony between March 9 and 24, 2020, in which patients are tested after being referred by the family doctor . This was intended to relieve the burden on the doctor's offices, which could hardly keep up with the increasing number of suspected cases with the tests. Some of the test centers function as drive- ins . In mid-March 2020, the drive-in test center in Hanover was relocated from a location at the Red Cross to a trade fair hall on the Hanover exhibition grounds after increasing test numbers . Due to the declining number of infected people, the 45 regional test centers closed from July 2020. In August 2020, around 10 corona test centers resumed operations after they had been put into sleep mode a few days earlier. The reason was a requirement by the Federal Ministry of Health , according to which all travelers returning can be tested free of charge. From August 2020, travelers at Hanover-Langenhagen Airport had to be tested for the corona virus if they returned to Germany from a risk area.

At the beginning of April 2020, a mobile test station went into operation in Hanover to first test clinical staff from the Hanover Medical School . Further mobile systems in containers were planned for testing employees of clinics and system-relevant companies in Göttingen and in the Wolfsburg / Braunschweig area. The concept was drawn up by a research and development group coordinated by Leibniz Universität Hannover .

At the end of March 2020, the Hanover Region, together with the Hanover Medical School , set up a “Corona makeshift hospital” with 500 beds for less seriously ill patients in two exhibition halls on the Hanover Exhibition Center. The former Federal Minister of Health and trained doctor Philipp Rösler also helped . The makeshift hospital should only be used when all other options have been exhausted. Due to the declining number of infected people, the makeshift hospital is expected to be closed at the end of 2020.

Serial tests in the meat industry

On 19 May 2020, ordered Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs by decree that in all slaughterhouses in which Contractors , series tests are performed are employed. Around 20,000 people are employed in around 180 meat processing companies in Lower Saxony. The reason for the order was corona cases in a meat company in Dissen with 92 coronavirus infected employees. At the time, many corona infections among slaughterhouse employees in North Rhine-Westphalia, such as Westfleisch , and other federal states had become known. In a further decree, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs ordered that from July 20 to December 31, 2020, employees in the Lower Saxony meat industry must be tested for the corona virus at least every ten days.

Corona regulations

On April 2, 2020, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs issued the Lower Saxony Ordinance on Restricting Social Contacts to Curb the Corona Pandemic , which came into force on April 4, 2020. It was modified by an ordinance that came into force on April 8, 2020 and expires on April 19, 2020. A national catalog of fines was published on April 8, 2020 , which provides for a fine of up to 25,000 euros in the event of particularly seriousness or repetition. So far, the municipalities have penalized violations of the ban on contact inconsistently.

In implementation of the agreements between the Chancellor and the heads of government of the federal states on April 15, 2020, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs issued a new ordinance to protect against new infections with the corona virus, which mainly applies from April 20, 2020 to May 6, 2020. Some regulations came into force on April 19, 2020. Section 1 (6) makes it clear that the term “major event”, which is used in the decision of the Federal Chancellor and the heads of government, means an event with more than 1000 participants. The ban on such events as agreed in the agreements applies “until August 31”. The legally unusual insert “at least” in the Lower Saxony Ordinance prevents the misinterpretation that major events would definitely be allowed again from September 1, 2020.

The fines for violations of the regulation that came into force on April 8, 2020 were set as follows (in extracts):

Violations in which the fine is directed against the respective offender:
Violation of rules Rule set
Failure to comply with the prescribed minimum distance in public of 1.5 meters 150 euros
Meetings and gatherings of more than two people 200 - 400 euros
Attending public events 150 - 400 euros
Visit to restaurants (except for take-away sales) 150 euros
Violations in which the fine is directed against the operator:
Violation of rules Rule set
Operation of restaurant businesses (except for out-of-home sales) 4,000 to 10,000 euros
Operation of the aforementioned leisure and entertainment venues and sales outlets 3000 to 10,000 euros
Operation of the above-mentioned accommodation facilities for tourist purposes 3000 to 10,000 euros
Providing services that are not urgently needed (e.g. cosmetics) 2000 to 5000 euros

On April 29, the Federal Constitutional Court temporarily suspended the Corona Ordinance of the State of Lower Saxony. It enabled exceptions to the strict ban on religious services in Lower Saxony.

Violations of the Infection Protection Act

In the first two weeks since the beginning of the nationwide restrictions, the Lower Saxony police registered 236 criminal offenses under the Infection Protection Act and 2,230 administrative offenses. From Good Friday to Easter Monday , more than 50 additional criminal proceedings as well as over 600 administrative offense proceedings under the Infection Protection Act were initiated. In addition, over 4,000 threats were addressed in the same period and more than 1,800 dismissals were issued .

In the period from March 1 to May 24, 2020, 2,850 violations of the Infection Protection Act were registered, including around 630 criminal offenses.

Criticism of the official measures

On April 3, 2020, Lower Saxony's state commissioner for data protection, Barbara Thiel, criticized a decree issued by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs of March 31, 2020 to the health authorities . They were urged to transfer data to the police on people who are quarantined because of the coronavirus , on the basis of the Lower Saxony Police Act . Thiel questioned the legality of the decree and complained that she had not been involved in the proceedings. After another decree from the ministry dated April 3, 2020 confirming the procedure, the state data protection officer Thiel described this as “unlawful and stored data transmission”, since it was sensitive health data . According to the Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior , the data would only be used in the operations control centers to protect officers in emergency situations, but if there were indications of violations, it would also enable a check to be made of who was in quarantine.

On April 6, 2020, the opposition in the Lower Saxony state parliament for the first time sharply criticized a measure by the Lower Saxony state government . On April 3, 2020, the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs issued a general ban on visiting people in third-party households and allowing people outside the household to visit their own home. Literally understood, the regulation would also have included a ban on visiting independently living parents, grandparents, adult sons and daughters and grandchildren. On April 6, 2020, Heiger Scholz , State Secretary in the Lower Saxony Ministry of Social Affairs, spoke of a "breakdown". Prime Minister Stephan Weil never intended to impose a ban on close relatives that went beyond the ban on visiting old people's and nursing homes. The objected point 2 of § 1 of the general decree was deleted on April 8, 2020 and was therefore valid for four days.

Other effects and measures in Lower Saxony

Braunschweig City Library will be closed from March 14, 2020 due to the "spread of the coronavirus"
Locked playground in the Eilenriede in Hanover on March 19, 2020
Parked aircraft from TUIfly at the airport Hannover-Langenhagen result of largely set air traffic due to the Corona pandemic, April 2020
Empty scoreboard at the empty Hannover-Langenhagen Airport, April 2020

One of the first cancellations concerned the Hanover Fair in 2020. Previously, the original date (April 20 to 24) had been postponed to July 13 to 17, 2020. It is the first time in its 73-year history that the fair has been canceled. The three-week Maschsee Festival in August in Hanover with around two million expected visitors was also canceled in April.

As a result of the general ban on major events, which is temporarily in force until August 31, 2020 and was decided by the Federal Chancellor and the heads of government of the federal states on April 15, 2020, many larger events have been gradually canceled in Lower Saxony.

Relaxation of measures from mid-April 2020

From mid-April there were individual easing; On May 4, 2020, the state government presented a five-step roadmap for easing in various areas, which was updated on May 22 and June 5, 2020. Stage 1 started on May 6th, Stage 2 on May 11th, and Stage 3 on May 25th. Stage 4 is scheduled to start on June 8th, and stage 5 on June 22nd, 2020.

The case of the city of Göttingen cited in the “Chronicle” shows that easing steps can be withdrawn at short notice at any time. On June 7, 2020, the city banned face-to-face teaching at general education schools in the city until June 12, 2020, after this had previously been allowed again with restrictions.

From June 22nd, 2020, day care centers will be reopened for all children with a childcare place and the "emergency care" will be terminated.

Education

On April 16, 2020, Lower Saxony's minister of education, Grant Hendrik Tonne, announced the timetable of his ministry for the resumption of schooling in Lower Saxony. The plan was for online classes to resume from April 22, 2020. Classes in the school building should be for students

  • of the final classes of years 10 and 13 on April 27,
  • 4th grade on May 4th,
  • of the 12th class on May 11th,
  • the 9th, 10th and 3rd grades on May 18th as well
  • 5th - 8th, 11th and 1st and 2nd grades between late May and mid-June

kick off. Apart from the aforementioned “setback” in Göttingen, the plan to enable more and more classes to be taught face-to-face in spring 2020 was put into practice.

During the attendance at the school, the classes were usually divided into two groups each in order to create the necessary distance between the students.

The Abitur exams have been postponed for three weeks. The first main date for the written exam was May 11, 2020, the last exam was written on May 30, 2020. The last oral review date will be July 8, 2020. The Abitur certificates should be handed out between July 9 and 10, 2020. A special feature of the situation in Lower Saxony is that the vast majority of high school students in grade 12 will not leave school in 2020 (unlike the previous, last G8 grade). This will not happen until 2021, after graduating from grade 13 . So there will be significantly fewer Abitur exams in 2020 than in other years.

The written exams for the acquisition of funding university degree learning, the school leaving certificate , the high-school completion and Advanced secondary accounts I took place from 20 to 28 May

retail trade

On April 20, 2020, retail stores with a sales area of ​​no more than 800 m² and which were able to guarantee compliance with the hygienic requirements of the authorities, in particular the distance requirement, were allowed to resume business operations. Larger shops in Lower Saxony were allowed to reduce their sales area to 800 m² by barring off and removing the assortments stored on the barred areas from the sales offer.

Provision of food and drinks "to go"

From April 16, 2020, ice cream parlors and ice cream parlors in Lower Saxony were also allowed to be open to customers who had not pre-ordered ice cream. However, they must keep the prescribed minimum distance from each other and before May 11, 2020 they were only allowed to start consuming the product 50 meters away from the point of sale.

Restaurant visit subject to conditions

According to the above-mentioned “five-step plan”, restaurants and beer gardens in Lower Saxony have again been allowed to receive guests under certain conditions since May 11th. Guests must make a reservation in advance and leave their name and telephone number in the establishment to enable contact follow-up. In addition, a maximum of 50% of the seats may be occupied at the same time until May 24th, tables must be at least two meters apart, items such as salt and pepper shakers or menus must not be made available for shared use and the waitress must wear mouth and nose protection .

Cultural and leisure facilities

From May 11, further easing came into force, including museums and other cultural institutions and zoological gardens.

Exceptions for visitors from the "hotspots" Gütersloh and Warendorf

The aforementioned relaxation was temporarily suspended from June 23, 2020 for residents of the Westphalian districts of Gütersloh and Warendorf , which have been declared " regions with increased numbers of infections " . The district of Osnabrück , which is directly adjacent to the two Westphalian districts, is particularly affected by possible border crossings and the possible use of its infrastructure .

See also

literature

  • Region Hannover (Ed.): The Corona Crisis in the Region Hannover. First traces in the statistics , 2020 ( online , pdf)

Web links

Commons : COVID-19 pandemic in Lower Saxony  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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