(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The cumulative number of deaths in Germany exceeds 50,000 and the third variant virus is confirmed
China News Agency, Berlin, January 22 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The German state of Hessen announced on the 22nd that it has confirmed the third variant of the new coronavirus in the country.
This strain is the same as the mutant strain that previously appeared mainly in Brazil.
As of that day, the cumulative number of deaths due to the new crown virus in Germany has exceeded 50,000.
On January 19, local time, a reminder to wear a mask was filmed in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
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The German disease control agency announced on the 22nd that the newly diagnosed new crown virus and the new death toll were 17,862 and 859 respectively, and the cumulative deaths reached 50,642.
Real-time data from Germany's "Times Online" showed that as of 21:40 local time on the 22nd, a total of 2,126,151 people were diagnosed in Germany.
Currently, Germany has received 1501639 doses of the new crown vaccine, and 115,175 people have received the second dose.
As the cumulative death toll has exceeded 50,000 since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, German President Steinmeier called on people to light candles at the windows on the 22nd to mourn the compatriots who died in the new crown epidemic.
He said that Germany will hold a national memorial ceremony for the new crown deceased in April.
According to a German TV station citing news released by the state of Hessen on the same day, a local laboratory detected a mutated strain of the new crown virus in Brazil from a passenger who returned to Frankfurt from Brazil on the 21st.
The Robert Koch Institute, the German Federal Agency for Disease Control, has not previously discovered this strain in other parts of the country.
Currently, the sequencing of this strain is still in progress.
Since December 24 last year, three mutant strains have been diagnosed in Germany. The first two strains were first discovered in the UK and South Africa.
On the 18th of this month, Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Bavaria, Germany, announced that an unknown new coronavirus variant strain was found in the samples of 35 confirmed patients in the local area. However, a study by Berlin Charité Medical School confirmed that this is not a new The emergence of mutant strains.
Sandra Zizek, a virologist at the University of Frankfurt, said that it is currently suspected that the above three mutant strains are more infectious than the original new coronavirus, but there is no evidence that these mutant strains will increase the rate of severe illness.
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