Data and decisionsEarly December 2019Cases of an unknown pneumonia occur in the Chinese city of Wuhan.27. January 2020 The first case of Covid-19 disease in Germany is reported at the automotive supplier Webasto in Bavaria. Full to capacity: cargo and passenger planes flew to Germany packed with respiratory masks; a vaccine first had to be developed.dpa27. February 2020The first coronavirus patient in Hesse, a 31-year-old man from Wetzlar, was reported during the night.12. March 2020The Hessian Ministry of Social Affairs issues a ban on events with more than 1000 participants with immediate effect.16. March 2020Due to the spread of the coronavirus, daycare centers and schools will remain closed from this day until after the Easter holidays. Because no one knew what was coming: The store shelves were initially swept empty in the early stages of the pandemic, as this picture of a Frankfurt Rewe supermarket in March 2020 shows.Diana Cabrera Rojas18. March 2020The Hessian state government decides that bars, clubs, pubs and other locations must close in order to break the chains of infection. Club meetings and church services are prohibited.20. March 2020The state government decides that only meetings with a maximum of five people are allowed to take place. Restaurants and pubs will be closed.23. March 2020The cities of Frankfurt and Hanau and the Marburg-Biedenkopf district issue orders against so-called hoarding purchases: Consumers are only allowed to purchase normal household quantities of toilet paper, for example. Outside: Contacts should be kept to a minimum; and the social life of millions of people initially crumbled.Frank Röth24. March 2020The state parliament unanimously passes the supplementary budget of two billion euros for the state’s rescue package and decides to relax the debt brake.7. April 2020 Fraport AG closes Terminal 2 at Frankfurt Airport. Frankfurt is now testing residents and staff of old people’s and nursing homes and other care facilities for the virus. For this purpose, the city had a bus converted into a mobile test center.20. April 2020Boutiques, shoe stores, household goods, laundry, stationery and jewelry stores with sales areas of up to 800 square meters are allowed to reopen under strict hygiene regulations and distance rules. Bookstores, car dealerships and bicycle shops can open, no matter how big they are. Unfortunately not today: especially in the early days of the pandemic, air traffic was restricted worldwide, and Frankfurt Airport was also affected.dpa22. April 2020The Mainz company Biontech is allowed to test its vaccine candidate against Corona on healthy volunteers.23. April 2020The Ministry of Culture publishes its hygiene plan for the start of school with a general mask requirement. Singing together and sports are not allowed.24. April 2020 Compulsory schooling for fourth graders in Hesse will be temporarily suspended following a decision by the Administrative Court in Kassel. The kind of applause that never fades: doctors and nurses worldwide pushed themselves to their limits.Lucas Bäuml25. April 2020On the sidelines of several small demonstrations, there were violations of the ban on contact in Frankfurt.26. April 2020The Hessian Ministry of Economic Affairs announced that more than 100,000 applications for Corona emergency aid have been received so far.27. April 2020From this day onwards, a mask requirement applies with a few exceptions.29. April 2020The Hessian state parliament returns to normal operations with the necessary Corona distance rules. Church services are permitted again subject to strict requirements. Symbol of a crisis: toilet paper was hoarded beyond reason in the fall of 2020 – and thus became a hilarious object of desire.Finn Winkler4. May 2020The Corona rules are being further relaxed in Hesse. Museums, zoos, playgrounds and hairdressing salons are allowed to reopen with distance and hygiene rules.9. May 2020Sports venues, cultural institutions such as theaters, opera and concert halls and cinemas can be reopened. Also all shops, as long as there is only one customer per 20 square meters. Members of two households are allowed to meet, and events for up to 100 people are also permitted provided hygiene and distance rules are observed. Face-to-face events can take place again at colleges and universities. Childcare communities of up to three families may be formed.9. and May 10, 2020 There are protests against the Corona restrictions in several cities in Hesse. Star singers don’t give in: In the Kelkheim district of Hornau, the siblings Lorenzo (16), Adriano (13), Ricarda (10) and Cosima (7) moved from door to door.Frank Röth12. May 2020The parking lot in front of the Frankfurter Jahrhunderthalle will become a drive-in stage for events, the program begins on May 22nd. There is the first drive-in disco in Hesse in Marburg.15. May 2020Employees in geriatric care will receive a Corona bonus, which is to be increased by 500 euros in Hesse. Restaurants, hotels, guesthouses and campsites can reopen.18. May 2020All secondary school students and primary school students in the fourth grade will be taught in classes again. Stay safe and strong: In the wake of great uncertainty, the best of humanity took place.Diana Cabrera Rojas28. May 2020The state government continues to reject comprehensive corona series tests in old people’s homes without a specific reason.1. June 2020As part of the Corona emergency aid program, around 905 million euros have been paid out to Hessian companies in the past two months.2. June 2020Hessian daycare centers are now moving from emergency care to “limited regular operations”. Elementary school students in levels one to three are the last group of students allowed to return to their classrooms.8. June 2020Hesse’s cabinet approves plans for a billion-dollar Corona special fund. Restricted area: Corona patients were also ventilated and treated in the intensive care unit of the Frankfurt University Hospital.Lucas Bäuml22. June 2020In view of the low number of infections, Hesse is further relaxing its Corona rules, for example regarding visit regulations in old people’s and nursing homes.28. June 2020The first Corona test center at an airport in Germany opens at Frankfurt Airport.30. June 2020After the end of the summer holidays in mid-August, schools will return to joint face-to-face teaching for all children and young people.15. July 2020In hospitals, patients are now allowed to receive a total of two visits in the first six days. Time for decisions: In November 2021, the then parliamentary group leader of the Hessian SPD, Nancy Faeser, speaks about the Corona special fund in the state parliament.dpa7. August 2020Similar to all of Germany, Hesse has recorded the highest daily increase in infections since May 8th with 158 new cases.23. August 2020With 17.4 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants in the past seven days, Hesse is at the top of all federal states.17. September 2020Biontech takes over a production facility in Marburg, Hesse from the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis to produce its potential corona vaccine.18. September 2020Hesse lifts the visit restrictions for old people’s and nursing homes. Again and again on Mondays: In Hesse, too, opponents of compulsory vaccination, which never came, regularly went through the cities – in the picture a “Monday walk” through Wetzlar.Frank Röth24. SeptemberThe Hessian gross domestic product fell by 6.1 percent, adjusted for prices, in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year.12. October 2020The Hessian Corona Cabinet issues new rules: If the incidence is higher than 50, private celebrations are limited to 25 people, and if the incidence is higher than 70, they are limited to ten people. Celebrations in public spaces are limited to 50 participants. In the catering industry, ID must be presented upon request to prevent incorrect contact details from being provided. Nail salons and hairdressers also have to record contact details of their customers.29. October 2020The Corona cabinet of the black-green state government decides on a ban on alcohol between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., a mask requirement in schools from grade five onwards and elsewhere where minimum distance cannot be maintained. Everything for the vaccine: This dictum also applied in the DRUID research center at the Philipps University of Marburg.Helmut Fricke31. October 2020Prime Minister Volker Bouffier went into quarantine at home due to several corona cases in the State Chancellery. The AfD faction is causing unrest because it is demonstratively ignoring the mask requirement.9. November 2020The corona vaccine developed by the Mainz-based pharmaceutical company Biontech and its US partner Pfizer is, according to the company, more than 90 percent effective.12. November 2020The German Red Cross presented a test center for drivers and pedestrians on the fairground on Ratsweg in Frankfurt.9. December 2020500,000 rapid corona tests for nursing homes and hospice services will soon be delivered in Hesse. Iconic: The Frankfurt Festival Hall was converted into a vaccination center.Frank Röth11. December 2020 A nighttime curfew applies in Hesse if an incidence of 200 is “permanently significantly exceeded”. The districts affected are Limburg-Weilburg, Main-Kinzig, Offenbach, Fulda and Groß-Gerau.16. December 2020New lockdown and stricter Corona rules: public life is being shut down. The compulsory attendance at schools has been lifted – there is only emergency care in schools and daycare centers.17. December 2020The Frankfurt vaccination center in the festival hall at the exhibition center is now ready for operation: with 44 vaccination stations, 250 employees and a capacity of 4000 vaccinations that can be given daily, it is the largest vaccination center in Hesse. And production was running: the vaccine was manufactured in the Biontech factories here in Marburg.Lucas Bäuml27. December 2020A Frankfurt intensive care nurse is one of the first people in Hesse to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. The medical staff as a whole should now be vaccinated quickly, it is said.28. December 2020Vaccinations take place in old people’s and nursing homes and in the six coordinating Covid-19 hospitals.15. January 2021The Mainz-based company Biontech has received permission to operate its new factory in Marburg to produce the corona vaccine. Here as there: queues in front of the vaccination centers, queues in front of the shops.Albermann, Martin19. January 2021Six regional vaccination centers start work in Hesse.25. January 2021A negative corona test is required immediately to visit old people’s and nursing homes.9. February 2021 All 22 corona vaccination centers are now open in Hesse. Vaccinated or recovered: The so-called “2G wristbands” were intended to contain the increasingly widespread pandemic.Lucas Bäuml10. February 2021After the federal-state talks on how to further deal with the pandemic, the lockdown will be extended until March 7th, the contact rules will remain in place.22. February 2021Students in grades one to six now receive alternating lessons: half are taught at school, the other half learn at home.23. February 2021 People aged 70 and over and people with previous illnesses can register for vaccination, as well as medical staff, teachers at primary and special schools and educators in daycare centers.8. March 2021New relaxations of the Corona regulation: One free rapid Corona test per week for every citizen. Two households with a maximum of five people are allowed to meet. Click and Meet (pre-registration) for retailers. Hardware stores, bookstores, fitness studios and flower shops are allowed to open. Museum and gallery visits are possible with advance notice. Almost a return to normality: Children in particular were severely restricted during the pandemic, and the mask requirement made school operations possible again.Ilkay Karakurt22. March 2021The country has ordered nine million corona self-tests, face shields and protective goggles as well as 24,000 fleece gowns and 100,000 liters of hand disinfectant for students, teachers and daycare staff.26. March 2021The “Vaccination Alliance Hessen” is founded so that medical practices can also vaccinate against the coronavirus after Easter.29. March 2021Stricter Corona rules apply again: Instead of Click and Meet, only Click and Collect. Zoos, botanical gardens and open-air museums remain open.19. April 2021After the Easter holidays, corona testing will be mandatory in Hesse’s schools for the first time. Primary schools in limited regular operation, alternating lessons for all students from grade 7 onwards. Teachers at secondary schools receive vaccination offers. Make three out of two: A third “G” stood for “tested”.Lucas Bäuml21. April 2021The German Bundestag decides on the Corona emergency brake, night curfews are ordered from an incidence of 100, and schools must end their face-to-face teaching if the value exceeds 165.22. November 2021Tightening of the Corona rules to break the fourth wave through the 2-G rule (access only if vaccinated or recovered) for restaurants and event organizers. 3 G applies at work and in local transport: vaccinated, recovered or proof of a PCR test.More on the topic5. December 2021In Hesse, the 2-G rule applies in retail, contact restrictions for unvaccinated people and capacity events indoors and outdoors. Only a quarter of the possible spectators are allowed into the football stadiums.1. March 2022Almost all remaining testing and mask requirements will be lifted early. However, visitors to doctor’s offices, hospitals and nursing homes should continue to wear a mask. “Safety first” was particularly important at Christmas time: “Bahnbabo” Peter Wirtz also knew that.dpa29. June 2022The offer of free rapid citizen tests expires.23. November 2022In Hesse, people no longer have to go into isolation after a positive corona test.7. April 2023In Hesse, all remaining Corona requirements now end. Compiled by the F.A.Z. archive/Gaby Bock.
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