(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) The number of new diagnoses in a single day has dropped to below 10,000 for the first time since Germany's "closed city"
China News Agency, Berlin, January 4 (Reporter Peng Dawei) Since the implementation of the second round of "city closures" on November 2 last year, the number of newly diagnosed new coronavirus infections in a single day announced by the German disease control agency on the 4th fell to 10,000 for the first time The number is 9847 for less than people.
In response to criticism from the opposition party and the scientific community that Germany’s current vaccination schedule is lagging behind, German Health Minister Spahn said on the same day that he still firmly believes that the states can provide vaccination opportunities for all nursing home residents in the country within one month, and when this part of the elderly have received After vaccination, the threat of the epidemic can be greatly reduced.
Germany implemented the second round of "city closures" on November 2 last year, but the strictness was not as strict as the first round in the first half of last year.
Due to the ineffectiveness, the German states implemented "hard lockdowns" on December 16 of the same year and tightened the epidemic prevention measures again.
According to the real-time data of Germany's "Times Online", as of 20:35 on the 4th local time, Germany had a total of 1,79,1989 confirmed diagnoses, 1,401,076 cured, and 35,613 deaths.
On December 27 last year, Germany officially launched the nationwide new crown vaccination.
The first vaccine to be put into use is an mRNA vaccine jointly developed by BioNTech and Pfizer.
However, although on December 30 last year, the German federal government claimed to have received about 1.3 million doses of vaccine, as of the 4th, the total number of people vaccinated in Germany was only 265,986.
In the face of criticism from various parties, Span responded in an interview with the "Rhine Post" that day, because he chose to vaccinate the residents of nursing homes first when formulating the vaccination strategy, it was necessary to send mobile vaccination vehicles to various nursing homes for door-to-door vaccination. They are vaccinated collectively in the vaccination center.
However, he emphasized that he still firmly believes that the states can provide all nursing home residents with the first shot of vaccination within one month.
On January 5, German Chancellor Merkel will negotiate with the governors of the states on whether to extend the "city lockdown" measures that will expire on January 10.
At present, many governors have expressed support for the extension of the "city closure."
Shi Pan said that in the short term, the criterion for judging "unblocking" should be a significant decline in the number of newly diagnosed patients; in the medium term, it is necessary to complete the vaccination of high-risk groups such as those over 70 years old to reduce The burden on the medical system.
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