page_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
section_title: Baden-Württemberg
hierarchical_section_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Germany / Timeline by state / Baden-Württemberg
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Corona-Testzentrum Sindelfingen im Vogelhainweg. Zur Verhinderung der Einschleppung von Erregern in die Räume des Labors findet die Probenentnahme zu beschränkten Zeiten in einem offenen Zelt statt. Für einenen Test muss telefonisch mit dem Gesundheitsamt ein Termin ausgemacht werden, ohne Termin kein Test. Getestet werden vorzugsweise Patienten mit Symptomen oder Personen, die engen Kontakt zu einer positiv getesteten Person hatten..
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic in Germany is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. On 27 January 2020, the first case in Germany was confirmed near Munich, Bavaria. The majority of cases in January and early February originated from the same automobile-parts manufacturer as the first case. On 25 and 26 February, multiple cases related to the Italian outbreak were detected in Baden-Württemberg. A large cluster linked to a carnival event was formed in Heinsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, with the first death reported on 9 March 2020. New clusters were introduced in other regions via Heinsberg as well as via people arriving from China, Iran and Italy, from where non-Germans could arrive by plane until 17–18 March.
  German disease and epidemic control is advised by the Robert Koch Institute according to a national pandemic plan. The outbreaks were first managed in a containment stage, which attempted to minimise the expansion of clusters.
context_section_description: On 25 February, a 25-year-old man from Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, who had recently returned from Milan, Italy, tested positive and was treated in Klinik am Eichert. On 26 February, Baden-Württemberg confirmed three new cases. The 24-year-old girlfriend of the 25-year-old man from Göppingen and her 60-year-old father, who worked as a chief physician at University Hospital Tübingen, tested positive and were admitted to the same hospital in Tübingen. A 32-year-old man from Rottweil, Baden-Württemberg, who had visited Codogno, Italy with his family on 23 February, tested positive and was admitted to a hospital for isolation.
  On 27 February, Baden-Württemberg confirmed four new cases, for a total of eight cases in the region. Two women and a man from Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and Freiburg, respectively, tested positive. They had had contact with an Italian participant at a business meeting in Munich; he was subsequently tested positive in Italy. A man from the district of Böblingen, who had had contact with the travel companion of the patient from Göppingen, also tested positive.
  On 28 February, Baden-Württemberg confirmed five new cases, bringing the total number of cases in the state to thirteen. A man from Ludwigsburg with flu symptoms who had tested negative for influenza virus was automatically tested for SARS-CoV-2 and confirmed positive. A man from Rhine-Neckar returning from a short ski holiday with mild cold symptoms checked himself in to the emergency department of the University Hospital Heidelberg and tested positive. A 32-year-old man in Heilbronn tested positive and was admitted to a hospital. He had been in Milan on 21 February and fallen ill with flu symptoms on 23 February. A man from Breisgau who had travelled to Bergamo, Italy also tested positive and underwent isolation.
  On 28 February, a man from Nuremberg who was in Karlsruhe on business was admitted to the Karlsruhe City Hospital. His family in Nuremberg was also ill with respiratory symptoms.
  After the ease of lockdown, a group of Germans who had been working in China was allowed to return. On arrival in Tianjin on 29 May 2020, Chinese authorities tested a 34-year-old engineer from Blaustein positive for the coronavirus. A test on departure in Frankfurt had shown no infection.
  In late July, a cluster of new infections emerged around a religious group in Steinsfurt. Among the 105 members of a Romanian evangelistic movement, 40 tested positive for the virus on 28 July 2020, of whom 20 resided in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis. Some 77 other individuals were wanted for testing, but did not respond or had left Germany on vacation when local authorities started the investigation. By 5 August, the number of active cases in Rhein-Neckar-Kreis had dropped from 20 to 4, with authorities judging that the outbreak had been contained within the community.
caption: A test centre in Sindelfingen, Baden-Württemberg. Viral throat swabs are taken in a tent outside to avoid contaminating the laboratory.
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