(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Germany's single-day number of new crown deaths hits a record high, there are cases of vaccinated people infected
China News Agency, Berlin, January 8 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The German disease control agency announced on the 8th that the number of new deaths from the new crown was 1,188, a record high since the outbreak in the country.
At present, the cumulative number of people diagnosed with the new crown virus in Germany has reached 1.89 million.
Recently, two nursing homes in Germany have reported cases in which residents and employees were still diagnosed with the new crown virus after being vaccinated, causing concern.
The German disease control agency announced that the number of new confirmed cases was 31,849.
According to real-time data from Germany's "Times Online", as of 18:00 local time on the 8th, a total of 1,889,700 confirmed cases, 1,493,480 cured, and 40048 died in Germany.
According to data from the CDC, as of 11 am that day, a total of 476,959 people in Germany have been vaccinated.
According to a report by West German Broadcasting Corporation on the 8th, two nursing homes located in Wallendorf and Rodinghausen in the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Residents and staff who had been vaccinated with the first dose of the new crown vaccine were tested for the new crown virus. Case.
Residents and staff of this nursing home in Rodinghausen were vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine a few days ago, but currently 12 residents and two staff have tested positive for the new crown.
None of these confirmed people showed symptoms.
The same situation occurred in another nursing home in Wallendorf County: After the COVID-19 vaccine was collectively vaccinated at the end of December last year, 11 residents and 13 staff members were still diagnosed with the infection.
At present, the cause of the collective infection in the two nursing homes is still unclear.
Hermann Lorenz, a doctor in Herford County where Rodinghausen is located, who is responsible for coordinating the provision of door-to-door vaccination for nursing homes, said that the new crown vaccine itself will not cause infection, because the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine used in Germany is not The virus injects into the human body, but injects a message into the human body, prompting the body to produce antibodies.
However, he also pointed out that the above-mentioned vaccines will not take effect immediately after vaccination. It takes some time for the human body to have sufficient protection against the new coronavirus. Therefore, people who have already received the first shot of the vaccine may still be infected.
A spokesperson for the Health Department of Wallendorf County said that after the first dose of the vaccine, the human body has only 50-80% immunity to the new coronavirus, and the second dose is required to have the "nearly complete immunity" effect.
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