(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Infection of the German Meat Union Plant causes two counties to return to the "Fengcheng" virologist warns of the risk of the second wave
China News Agency, Berlin, June 23 (Reporter Peng Dawei) As of the 23rd, the outbreak of a cluster of new coronary pneumonia infection in Germany’s largest meat processing company Tennis has caused more than 1,900 local diagnoses. The North Rhine-Westphalia government announced the re-enforcement of "closed cities" measures such as interpersonal contact bans, full suspension of classes, and suspension of sports and cultural activities in Gütersloh and neighboring county Wallendorf where the company is located. German author virologist Drosten warned that people must immediately be highly alert to avoid the second wave of outbreaks.
According to the German "Times Online" report, as of the 23rd local time, a total of 192886 people were diagnosed in Germany, 175649 were cured, and 9083 people died.
The official of Gütersloh County in North Rhine-Westphalia said that the number of diagnoses in the county rose from 1696 the previous day to 1952. The NRW Health Minister Lauman announced on the same day that Gütersloh and the neighboring county Wallendorf resumed several anti-epidemic measures before the German “unblocking”, including restrictions on interpersonal contact, prohibition of indoor sports and cultural activities, Starting from the 25th, the county's primary and secondary schools and kindergartens will be closed.
Lauman said that the two counties need to significantly increase their testing efforts, and the testing objects will cover nursing home residents and staff, medical staff, food supermarkets and newsstands and other staff. All enterprises that implement centralized residence of employees must also be tested by all employees. In addition, residents of the two counties can be tested for free.
On the same day, cluster infections broke out again in many places in Germany. Following a recent outbreak of a clustered infection in a residential block in the Neukolln district, which quarantined more than three hundred households in the capital, Berlin, 44 residents in a residential building in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin were diagnosed with infection on the 23rd 37 families in the building were isolated.
A refugee camp in Friedland, Lower Saxony, near Göttingen also broke out on the same day. Twenty-one of the 190 refugees have been diagnosed, and a staff member has also been diagnosed with infection.
In response to the frequent local outbreaks in Germany since the “unblocking”, Drosten, the authoritative virologist of Germany and director of the Institute of Virology at the Charité School of Medicine in Berlin, said in a podcast program that there are new large-scale coronaviruses in Germany Signs of spread. He warned that the virus may be spreading without people being aware of it, and it is currently critical to limit the spread of the virus to its local outbreak and prevent it from spreading outward.
Drosten said frankly that from the perspective of the epidemic situation, he was not very optimistic about whether Germany could "be as peaceful as it is now". He said that if we can no longer be highly vigilant now, "we will be in trouble in two months." He also called on the public to give the health department the necessary support. (Finish)