Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Robert Habeck (Greens) has Corona. He took a test on Monday evening after someone in his environment had positive test said a spokesman for the German Press Agency in Berlin. “He will therefore initially cancel physical appointments. He has first cold symptoms.”
Habeck is by no means alone in this. “There are signs of a renewed increase in Sars-CoV-2 activity in the population and in the outpatient sector,” the current weekly report of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
“The number of acute respiratory diseases has been at a higher level in recent weeks than usual at this time of year,” it continued. Currently, around 4.6 million people are ill. The infection process is mainly caused by rhinoviruses and Sars-CoV-2. (dpa, fki)
