(Fighting new crown pneumonia) German diagnoses continue to grow
China News Agency, Berlin, February 28 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The number of people diagnosed with new crown pneumonia in Germany has increased for the fourth consecutive day since the 25th of this month. Official data from Germany showed that as of 10:00 on the day, 53 people had been diagnosed in the country. The ITB Berlin, the world's largest travel exhibition originally scheduled to open on March 4, was announced that night.
Since that day, the German official Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the federal authority responsible for coordinating disease prevention and control, has published daily confirmed figures on its website. The above data is released by it.
According to the organizer, the Berlin International Tourism Fair, originally scheduled to open on March 4, is expected to attract more than 10,000 exhibitors and 160,000 professional and non-professional visitors from more than 180 countries, with a turnover expected to reach 7 billion EUR. On the evening of the 28th, ITB announced on its official website that due to the continuous spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the German Federal Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Economy proposed to cancel the exhibition. The local authorities in Berlin require the organizers to ensure that all exhibitors and visitors must prove that they are neither from risk areas officially recognized by Germany nor have they been in contact with these areas. Messe Berlin said it was unable to meet these requirements and therefore decided to suspend this year's International Tourism Fair. This is also the first time that the exhibition has been suspended for 54 years.
On the same day, a joint crisis response team composed of the German Federal Ministry of Health and the Interior Ministry made a number of decisions on screening measures for land and cross-border traffic and risk assessments for large-scale events. Health Minister Jens Span told German media on the same day that the current challenge is that countries around the world are looking for and purchasing protective equipment, and Germany must be prepared to cope with shortages of related equipment.
However, German Chancellor Angela Merkel also emphasized that she was one of the countries with the best conditions to deal with the new crown virus when attending an event that day. She said that every individual can contribute to the virus, such as not shaking hands with herself that night.
In response to the rapid development of the epidemic, the Chinese embassy and consulate in Germany issued a reminder on the same day, calling for attention to prevent new coronary pneumonia: "In order to ensure the physical health and life safety of Chinese citizens in Germany, the Chinese embassy in Germany especially reminds overseas Chinese, students and Chinese Staff of investment institutions and enterprises, pay close attention to the relevant situation, arrange travel reasonably, and take effective precautionary measures. "(End)