New Corona outbreak: Göttingen high-rise building with 700 people under quarantine

In Göttingen, there is again a large Corona outbreak. As the city administration announced on Thursday noon, were tested at a series test at least 102 out of the total of nearly 700 residents of a high-rise complex a positive effect on the Virus. About sixty test results were on Thursday noon. The residential complex has been completely quarantined because the authorities assume that there are many contact persons in the first degree in the buildings. Up coming Thursday, the residents are not allowed to leave the residential complex.

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Political correspondent for lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Bremen, with its headquarters in Hannover.

The building complex is for quite some time as a social focal point. On the site of infection, the authorities were pushed, after two young women the Virus within the framework of a preventive and routine control in the hospital, it was found. The municipal administration decided to test all of the residents. The investigations were made at the beginning of the week mobile test centres directly in front of the building.

The room Göttingen approaches due to the outbreak, once again, the critical threshold of 50 infections per 100,000 inhabitants, within a week. The value rose on Thursday of 17,09 on 44,86. Social head of the Department of Petra Broistedt (SPD), with further infections.

In the case of tracking the chains of Infection, the authorities have to contend with language barriers. According to the city, many people live in the building of the Romanian language. The hygienic conditions in the residential complex, according to information from the F. A. Z., just under the pandemic points of view difficult. Many of the apartments were overcrowded and poorly ventilated hallways would part used as a community space, reported a with the terms and conditions of a familiar Person.