North Rhine-Westphalia’s Prime Minister, Armin Laschet, has defended the restrictions to contain the Corona of a pandemic. “The Virus is not stopped for long,” he said on Wednesday at the düsseldorf state Parliament. “To avoid Italian relationships”, would have to continue to fight all of the common against the spread. dpa/Federico Gambarini/dpa-POOL/dpabild Armin Laschet (CDU), Minister President of North Rhine-Westphalia, there will be a press conference.

First effects were in the initially most affected the district of Heinsberg. There, the increase in cases has slowed down. The curve of new infections is flattened, and the so-called doubling time have improved.

While the number of Infected in North Rhine-Westphalia, all eight to nine days for a double, be it in Heinsberg now every 16 days. Meanwhile, there were more infections in Cologne, Germany, in the district of Heinsberg. “But it is not a time for complacency. We will continue to have rising infection numbers,” underlined the Prime Minister. All the important messages to the Coronavirus in the FOCUS Online Newsletter. Subscribe now.

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