China News Agency, Berlin, March 25 (Reporter Peng Dawei) After more than four months, the number of newly diagnosed new crown virus infections in Germany in a single day has once again exceeded 20,000.

German Chancellor Merkel said on the same day that vaccines are the way out of the new crown epidemic crisis, and the EU must increase its autonomy in vaccine production.

　　The German disease control agency announced that the number of new confirmed cases and the number of new deaths were 22,657 and 228, respectively.

The number of newly diagnosed Germans in a single day exceeded 20,000 for the first time on November 6, 2020.

Since then, Germany implemented stricter measures to "close the city" in mid-December of that year, and the epidemic has eased since the end of January.

However, with the continuous spread of mutant strains, the epidemic situation in Germany has rebounded rapidly since March.

　　According to the real-time data of Germany's "Times Online", as of 20 o'clock on the 25th local time, Germany has confirmed a total of 2732106 people, cured 2455939 people, and died 76209 people in Germany.

Up to now, Germany has received 11,746,915 doses of vaccine, and a total of 3,603,619 people received the second dose of vaccine.

　　Merkel made the aforementioned remarks when explaining the work of the government and introducing the situation of the EU leaders summit in the German Bundestag.

　　Merkel emphasized that the EU should have greater autonomy in the production of new crown vaccines.

In response to the current lagging speed of vaccination in the EU, Merkel said that the main problem is not how many doses of vaccines have been ordered, but "how many doses of vaccines can be produced on EU soil at the moment."

　　Merkel said that we have already seen very clearly that the British factories only produce vaccines for the United Kingdom, while the United States does not export vaccines. "Therefore, we can only rely on vaccines produced in Europe."

She emphasized that taking into account the mutation of the new coronavirus, people are expected to fight against it for a long time, and the problem of vaccine production will continue throughout this year.

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