China News Agency, Berlin, July 19th (Reporter Peng Dawei) On the 19th, the German slaughtering industry reproduced a cluster of infections. On that day, 66 employees at a poultry slaughterhouse in Lower Saxony were diagnosed with new coronary pneumonia. The German Federal Chancellor Braun said on the same day that it can currently be considered that Germany has controlled the new crown epidemic, but the virus has not disappeared from Germany and may reappear at any time.
Germany's "Time Online" reported that as of 18:42 local time on the 19th, Germany had accumulatively diagnosed 202,758 people, cured 187,424 people, and died 9246; the number of newly diagnosed in the past seven days was 2,739.
Following the cluster infection of the Toennies meat processing plant that caused the infection of nearly 2,000 people in Gütersloh County, North Rhine-Westphalia, the poultry slaughterhouse of Wiesenhof in Lorne, Lower Saxony, was tested Of the 1,046 employees, 66 have been diagnosed as of the 19th, and all patients diagnosed have been quarantined. The local government believes that most of the diagnosed patients are infected in private places outside of work. At present, the authorities are tracing the close contacts of the diagnosed patients, most of which have been isolated.
As the 66 confirmed patients live in several different counties around the slaughterhouse, the local area has not yet broken the red line of the German new crown epidemic of "more than 50 people diagnosed per 100,000 people in the past seven days".
In response to the overall situation in Germany's fight against the new crown epidemic, German Federal Chancellor Braun said in an exclusive interview with "Sunday Photo" that people can now say "we have controlled the new crown (outbreak) in Germany." However, he emphasized that this can only reflect the situation at this moment. The new coronavirus still exists in Germany, and "the new corona epidemic may occur again at any time."
Braun specifically reminded the German public not to take it lightly when traveling on holidays. He criticized the recent pictures of some German holidaymakers gathering in the Spanish island of Mallorca, saying that this practice "greatly damaged Germany's local reputation." He said that every vacationer should not only pay attention to self-protection, but should also pay attention not to spread the virus on the holiday, nor to bring the virus back to Germany.
Braun also expressed optimistic expectations for Germany's next "unblocking". It is expected that soon, large-scale events such as concerts and football games will welcome the audience again. (Finish)