(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Nearly 30% of Newly Confirmed Cases in Germany are Infected with Variant Strains Extend Border Control to Early March
China News Agency, Berlin, February 23 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The German Association of Registered Medical Laboratories (ALM) said on the 23rd that the new coronavirus variant strain is continuing to spread in Germany. Nearly 30% of the newly detected cases in the past week were infected. The mutant strain first discovered in the UK.
The German Ministry of Interior announced on the same day that it will extend border control measures with the Czech Republic and Austria's Tyrol until March 3.
On the evening of January 24, 2021, a step in Berlin's Arnswald square was filled with candles and a sign saying "Let the deceased with the new crown be seen" was placed.
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The German disease control agency announced that the number of new confirmed cases and deaths were 3883 and 415 respectively.
Real-time data from Germany's "Times Online" showed that as of 22:24 on the 23rd local time, Germany had a total of 2,405,953 confirmed cases, 2,207,322 cured, and 69,314 deaths.
As of the same day, Germany has received 5220336 doses of new crown vaccine, of which 3,413,730 people have received the first dose and 1,806,606 people have received the second dose.
Michael Müller, chairman of the German Association of Registered Medical Laboratories, which represents more than two hundred medical laboratories across Germany, said on the same day that while the positive rate in Germany has fallen in the past few weeks, the number of confirmed cases infected with the mutant strain of the new crown virus The proportion is rising.
He said that nearly 30% of the confirmed cases detected in the past week were infected with the "B.1.1.7" strain first discovered in the UK.
This ratio is significantly higher than the 22% that the German CDC announced a week ago.
Michael Muller also predicts that this proportion will rise further.
A spokesperson for the German Ministry of the Interior confirmed that Germany will extend border control measures with the Czech Republic and Austria's Tyrol until March 3.
Previously, the German federal government designated parts of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria's Tyrol as "new crown virus mutation areas" and adopted temporary restrictions on the entry of most people from these places.
While all walks of life in Germany are violently defending the road map for "unblocking", the Robert Koch Institute, the German disease control agency, announced a plan that aims to "unblock" the country in four steps. The plan proposes to increase the proportion of severely ill patients with new coronary disease in the national intensive care bed and the number of newly hospitalized patients over 60 years old every week in addition to the indicator of "the average number of newly diagnosed diagnoses per 100,000 people in seven days" currently observed. , The proportion of close contacts that can be traced and other three indicators. (Finish)