(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The cumulative number of confirmed diagnoses in Germany exceeds 2.1 million, Merkel said the epidemic situation is still very serious

  China News Agency, Berlin, January 21 (Reporter Peng Dawei) As of the 21st local time, the cumulative number of people diagnosed with the new crown virus in Germany has exceeded 2.1 million.

German Chancellor Merkel said on the same day that although the number of new diagnoses in Germany in a single day has begun to fall, the number of deaths due to the new crown is still high, and a mutant virus has also been diagnosed.

She emphasized that the German epidemic is still in a very difficult stage.

  Merkel made the above remarks at a press conference in Berlin that day.

The German disease control department announced on the 21st that the number of new diagnoses and deaths were 20398 and 1013 respectively.

According to the real-time data of Germany's "Times Online", as of 21:00 local time on the 21st, Germany has a total of 2,109,832 confirmed diagnoses, 1,761,340 cured, and 51,156 dead.

Germany has currently vaccinated 1401693 people with the new crown vaccine.

  Merkel said on the same day that the new crown epidemic is a "disaster once in a hundred years", and the current German epidemic has begun to slow down, which is heartening.

She said that this shows that the rigid blockade measures taken by Germany a few weeks ago have begun to take effect, and that the people's efforts are worthwhile.

But she also pointed out that the German epidemic presents a "split picture": on the one hand, the number of newly diagnosed patients has fallen, and on the other hand, the number of deaths in a single day and the diagnosis of multiple mutant strains are over 1,000.

  To this end, Merkel reminds people to be highly vigilant against the risk of mutant viruses and slow down the spread of mutant strains as much as possible.

  Speaking of the current progress of vaccination in Germany, Merkel said that the German federal government will do everything it can to support vaccine production. "The goal is to give all citizens the opportunity to receive the new crown vaccine before the fall."

  In response to the video conference planned by EU leaders that night, Merkel emphasized before the conference that the EU should take coordinated measures to combat the epidemic.

She also believes that border closure can only be used as a "last resort" and efforts should be made to avoid the recurrence of EU countries' border closures to neighboring countries in the first half of last year.

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