No new infections, an incidence of 0.0 – the Ludwigslust-Parchim district stands out as a gray spot on the RKI’s corona map. No further questions, except: How can that be?
If you regularly bend over the map of Germany from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), you will mainly see orange and red, lonely sprinklers yellow and swelling pink. The so-called shows the current situation report of the highest epidemic authority as a kind of heat map, as a weather map, which puts the pale figures on the epidemic situation in color. There these days the coloring of an impending crisis can be observed, the number of cases in Germany is constantly reaching new highs.
Only one district seems to be asserting itself against the pandemic brush: Ludwigslust-Parchim in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
The gray spot on the RKI map
For several weeks, “LUP” has been a gray spot on the RKI map. No new infections at all, a seven-day incidence of 0.0 – as the RKI notes – make the district appear as an enclave of the epidemic. But particularly strict hygiene concepts, rigorous contact restrictions and hard lockdowns are not responsible for this.
The background to this is a hacker attack that overtook the municipal IT service provider in mid-October and continues to cause disruptions in administrative operations to this day. “A forensic investigation of the systems has been initiated and has not yet been completed,” says the district’s website. The transfer of the corona data to the RKI, which uses it to create the pandemic weather map, is also affected, as reported.
That Ludwigslust-Parchim is by no means free from the corona virus: On Tuesday, 142.1 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants were counted within the last seven days. This means that the seven-day incidence is below the current national average (232.1), but Ludwigstlust-Parchim is not a gray spot: at least on that, the district is colored yellow.
Sources: Robert Koch Institute (), Ludwigslust-Parchim district (/), Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state government (),
Source From: Stern
