China News Agency, Berlin, January 14 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The German disease control agency announced on the 14th that the number of new deaths from the new crown disease once again hit a new high since the outbreak of the country, reaching 1244.
As of the evening of the 14th, the cumulative number of people diagnosed with the new crown virus in Germany has exceeded two million.
The head of the disease control agency called on employers to allow employees to work from home as much as possible on the same day, and reminded that they should consider further tightening the current "city closure" measures.
On January 5, the cumulative number of people diagnosed with the new crown virus in Germany exceeded 1.8 million.
The picture shows pedestrians passing by a closed flower shop in Berlin.
A notice was posted on the shop’s window that “the city was closed due to the second round of closure”.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Peng Dawei
The German disease control agency Robert Koch Institute announced the new number of confirmed cases that day was 25,164.
According to real-time data from Germany's "Times Online", as of 20 o'clock on the 14th local time, Germany had a total of 2004,729 confirmed cases, 1,619,483 cured, and 45,535 deaths.
According to statistics from the CDC, as of 11 am that day, the cumulative number of people vaccinated against the new crown in Germany was 842,455, that is, 1% of the total population has been vaccinated.
In response to the current situation of the epidemic, Willer, Director of the Robert Koch Institute, said at a press conference in Berlin that day that the load on the country's ICU intensive care unit has reached an unprecedented level.
He said that the current number of newly diagnosed cases is still very high, indicating that the current epidemic prevention and restriction measures are not enough. "The measures we are taking are not a complete'closure' in my opinion. There are still many exceptions that can be exempted . Epidemic prevention measures must be more stringently implemented."
Willer said that tightening of epidemic prevention measures should be considered as an option.
He also called for more employers in Germany to allow employees to work from home.
According to the German News Agency, German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to advance the epidemic prevention policy consultations that were supposed to be held on January 25 with state governors to next Monday or Tuesday (January 18 or 19).
The "Daily Mirror" quoted government sources as saying that by then, it may consider further tightening the "city closure" measures, including reducing the frequency of public transportation and long-distance trains, and may even further restrict people's freedom of travel.
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