(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) More than 22% of newly confirmed cases in Germany are infected with mutant strains
China News Agency, Berlin, February 17 (Reporter Peng Dawei) German Health Minister Spahn said on the 17th that the first variant of the new coronavirus in the UK has accounted for 22% of the new confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in Germany in the past two weeks. the above.
He warned that the mutant strain may soon become the main strain spreading in Germany and must be prepared to deal with it.
He called on people to continue to comply with the epidemic prevention regulations.
The German disease control department announced that the number of new confirmed cases and deaths were 7,556 and 560, respectively.
According to real-time data from Germany's "Times Online", as of 21:28 local time on the 17th, a total of 2,362,952 people have been diagnosed, 2,153,918 people have been cured, and 67,173 people have died in Germany.
As of the same day, Germany had received 4422007 doses of vaccine, of which 2896064 had received the first dose and 1525943 had received the second dose.
Span made the above remarks at a press conference in Berlin that day.
Citing research data from the CDC, he said that compared with two weeks ago, the proportion of the new crown variant strains first discovered in the UK in the newly confirmed cases in Germany has increased from only about 6% to more than 22%.
Another variant strain first discovered in South Africa accounted for 1.5%.
Span warned that the mutant strain may soon become the main strain spreading in Germany and must be prepared for it.
Speaking of the current controversial timetable for "unblocking", Spann said that overall the number of newly diagnosed cases in Germany has continued to decline, indicating that the measures taken have been effective.
He also reminded that the current debate on "unblocking" should take into account the important factor that mutant strains are more transmissible.
The prerequisite for “unblocking” the German Chancellor Merkel recently stated is: if the country’s “average number of new diagnoses per 100,000 people in seven days” can stabilize below 35 for two consecutive weeks after allowing stores to reopen, then You can consider further "unblocking."
However, some politicians, including Rashet, the new chairman of the CDU, the ruling party of which Merkel is located, criticized the selection of the “35” threshold, saying that it lacked sufficient scientific basis.
Shi Pan emphasized that he is not opposed to the "unblocking" plan based on the above indicators, but the severity of the virus mutation must be considered in the formulation of the plan, and the spread of the mutant strain must be checked every two weeks. Evaluation.
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