(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Germany's single-day increase hits a new high since April, and many places in Europe are listed as high-risk areas

  China News Agency, Berlin, September 18 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The rebound of the new crown epidemic in Germany is still continuing.

The epidemic data released by the German Federal Agency for Disease Control and Prevention on the 17th showed that 2,194 people were newly diagnosed with the new crown virus that day, a record high since the epidemic stabilized in April this year.

In response to the rebound of the epidemic in some EU countries, Germany has listed certain areas in France, the Netherlands, Austria and other countries as high-risk areas. People who return to Germany from relevant areas need to isolate themselves at home for 14 days.

  The German Federal Agency for Disease Control and Prevention, the Robert Koch Institute, released the above data that morning.

In addition, according to real-time data from Germany's "Times Online", as of 18:00 on the 17th local time, Germany had a total of 267,304 confirmed diagnoses, 237,311 cured, and 9,538 dead in Germany.

It is worth noting that, in addition to a new high in a single day, a total of 10,542 new cases were added in the past week (September 10-16), which also returned to the level of April this year.

  Drosten, a famous German virologist and director of the Institute of Virology at the Charité Medical School in Berlin, said on the same day that the German epidemic is now in an "rising stage" again.

He pointed out that, unlike August, which was dominated by returned imported cases, the newly confirmed cases are currently originating from infections in Germany, which indicates that there may be clusters of infected people in Germany that have not yet been identified.

  Recently, the epidemic situation in many EU countries has also rebounded. Among them, the number of new diagnoses in France has exceeded 10,000 in a single day.

To this end, the Robert Koch Institute has updated its list of "high-risk areas", adding France’s Upper France, overseas provinces of Reunion, Austria’s Vienna State, and North Holland, including the Dutch capital Amsterdam. , The two provinces of South Holland.

In addition, Budapest, the capital of Hungary, is also listed as a high-risk area.

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