(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Germany has diagnosed over 1.2 million accumulatively and authoritative institutions call for the implementation of "hard lockdown"
China News Agency, Berlin, December 8 (Reporter Peng Dawei) As of the evening of the 8th local time, the cumulative number of people diagnosed with the new crown virus in Germany has exceeded 1.2 million, and the cumulative death toll is approaching 20,000.
The German Academy of Sciences issued a policy proposal on the same day, calling on the entire country to use the upcoming Christmas and New Year holidays to implement a "hard lockdown" measure that is more powerful than the current "partial lockdown" to avoid further deterioration of the epidemic.
The German disease control department announced on the 8th that the number of new diagnoses in a single day was 14,054.
According to real-time data from Germany's "Times Online", as of 18:00 that day, Germany had a total of 1,210,472 confirmed cases, 881,570 cured, and 19,929 deaths.
As a key indicator for the German government to observe the trend of the epidemic, the "average number of new cases per 100,000 people in the past seven days" was 156.7 as of December 7, which is still far higher than the official implementation of the second round of "city lockdown" on November 2 The “under 50” goal set previously.
The German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina National Academy of Sciences) is the oldest federation in the fields of natural science and medicine in Germany.
The new crown pneumonia epidemic assessment report released by the agency in April this year served as an important reference for the German federal and state governments to make "unblocking" decisions during the first wave of the epidemic.
The German Academy of Sciences stated in a proposal published on the 8th that the current epidemic in Germany is still severe and faces the risk of continuing deterioration.
Although Germany has implemented a "cities lockdown" to some extent since the beginning of November, the number of new infections has remained high, with hundreds of people dying from the new crown every day.
The German Academy of Sciences stated that currently hospitals and medical staff are on the verge of overload, and local health departments are already overwhelmed. In order to re-control the development of the epidemic, its recommendations should be implemented in two steps:
Among them, from December 14 this year, the implementation of compulsory education should be suspended and everyone is required to work from home; from December 24, except for the shops selling food and medicine necessary for daily life, all other businesses must be closed.
People should minimize social contact with people other than their family members.
The German Academy of Sciences stated that the above-mentioned "hard lockdown" measures can provide Germany with an opportunity to forcefully contain the development of the epidemic.
German Chancellor Merkel is expected to hold the next epidemic prevention policy meeting with state governors on January 4, 2021. It is not clear whether she will meet with governors again before Christmas. However, as of the evening of the 8th, the German states of Saxony and Bavaria have announced stricter epidemic prevention measures than the current national practices. (Finish)