(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Over 90,000 diagnosed and aggregated infections have occurred in Germany with more than 9,000 deaths
China News Agency, Berlin, June 18 (Reporter Peng Dawei) On the evening of the 18th local time, the cumulative number of people diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia in Germany exceeded 190,000, and the number of deaths exceeded 9,000. On that day, the number of people diagnosed with cluster infection in a residential block in Berlin, Germany rose to 85. In Göttingen, Lower Saxony, there was another outbreak of cluster infection in high-rise apartment buildings, with 102 people diagnosed. After the outbreak of a cluster infection in Germany's largest meat processing plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, the number of diagnoses has reached 730.
According to the German "Times Online" report, as of 22:22 pm on the 18th local time, Germany has cumulatively diagnosed 190239 people, cured 174004 people, and died 9043 people.
With the domestic "unblocking" and lifting travel restrictions and warnings for EU countries, many places in Germany have reported cluster infections in recent days, causing concern.
In the capital Berlin, after a recent outbreak of a cluster infection in a residential block in the Neukeln district, 85 people have been diagnosed as of the evening of the 18th, an increase of 15 cases from the previous day. About 370 families in this area are being isolated. Officials are currently tracking the infection chain.
Hickel, the head of the new Kelln district, told the German media that the increase in the number of newly diagnosed patients in a relatively short period of time made him very worried. The official did not know "when the end of the epidemic in this local outbreak".
Following the suspension of classes across the city due to a cluster of infections caused by family gatherings in a high-rise house earlier this month, another high-rise house outbreak occurred in Göttingen. According to reports from North German Radio, 102 people had been diagnosed as of that night. The entire high-rise apartment building with hundreds of people has been isolated for the first time.
The Göttingen City Crisis Response Team said on the same day that a total of 700 residents and contacts outside the building have been tested so far. This incident caused the average number of infections per 100,000 in the city of Göttingen to rise to 45 in the past 7 days, which is close to the 50-person warning line set by the German Federal Government. Mayor Kohler of Göttingen announced on the same day that everyone in the apartment building with the outbreak must immediately wear a mask, and the public places in the city are also required to wear masks.
In addition, the number of diagnosed outbreaks of cluster infection in the German largest meat processing company Tennis Foods in Gütersloh, NRW, has risen to 730 by the evening of the 18th.
Because the existing Red Cross Society and other institutions in the county have reached the limit of their testing capacity, the Gütersloh county government sought support from the German Bundeswehr that day to implement large-scale testing in the county. The Bundeswehr is expected to send medical troops into the county on the 19th.
A spokesman for Tennis Foods, which has 16,500 employees, said it will conduct tests on all employees at a rate of 1500-2000 people per day.
In response to successive outbreaks of aggregate infections by meat companies, German Agriculture Minister Kreckner said that this situation cannot continue, and it is now necessary to thoroughly investigate the source of infection in the work and accommodation environment of employees in this industry. German Labor Minister Haier said that a bill will be introduced this summer to better protect the rights of workers in the meat industry. (Finish)