(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Germany's basic infection number R0 rebounded and then broke "1"

  China News Agency, Berlin, May 9 (Reporter Peng Dawei) As Germany further promotes the economic and social "unblocking" process, the country's disease control agency Robert Koch Institute announced on the 9th that the basic infection number R0 value rebounded from 0.83 To 1.1. At present, the number of newly infected people in 12 counties in Germany in the past seven days is close to the "reclosing red line" announced by the federal government. At the same time, the German slaughter industry is becoming a hot spot in the epidemic. At present, more than 600 people have been infected with new coronary pneumonia, and more than 180 employees have been diagnosed in a meat factory in North Weizhou.

  According to the German "Times Online" report, as of 22 o'clock on the 9th local time, Germany has cumulatively diagnosed 171,831 people with new coronary pneumonia, cured 138,330 people, and died 7,644.

  On the 6th of this month, the German Federal Government and the states reached a decision to further open various commercial and public facilities on the basis of the "unblocking" measures announced on April 20, and gradually promote the resumption of classes. However, although the previously announced ban on social and interpersonal contact will continue to be implemented until June 5, Germany has begun to gather thousands of people since May 1. Thousands of people gathered in major cities such as Berlin, Frankfurt, Munich and Stuttgart on May 9 to protest the government's restrictions.

  On the 9th, the latest basic infection number R0 value announced by the Robert Koch Institute rebounded from 0.83 on the 8th to 1.1. This means that without intervention, each infected person can infect more than one person on average. The agency has emphasized many times before that the R0 value must be kept below "1" to slow the epidemic. It pointed out that the rebound in the R0 value indicates that it is necessary to maintain a high degree of attention to the trend of the epidemic in the next few days.

  The outbreak of a clustered infection in the Meat Joint Factory in Cosfeld County, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany has so far been diagnosed by more than 180 people. On the 9th, the local health department conducted a new crown test on more than 900 of the 1,200 employees of the entire Meat Union Factory. All 20,000 slaughtering practitioners in the state will be tested.

  German media reports pointed out that the German slaughtering industry employs a large number of workers from Eastern Europe. Most of these people live in collective dormitories that cannot guarantee interpersonal distance. They commute daily by minibus, which is likely to cause collective infections.

  In this regard, the German Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Haier has asked the labor departments of the relevant states to strictly supervise the labor protection of seasonal workers in the agricultural and meat industry. (Finish)