(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Over 2.9 million confirmed cases in Germany, the chairman of the ruling party calls for a "hard lockdown"

　　China News Agency, Berlin, April 5 (Reporter Peng Dawei) As of the evening of the 5th local time, the cumulative number of people diagnosed with the new crown virus in Germany has exceeded 2.9 million.

The chairman of the ruling Christian Democratic League and the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia Raschett called on the same day that Germany should implement stricter and more stringent "cities lockdown" measures across the country for 2-3 weeks this month in order to control the epidemic as soon as possible. Vaccination wins time.

　　The German disease control agency announced that the number of new confirmed cases and the number of new deaths were 8,497 and 50, respectively.

According to real-time data from Germany's "Times Online", as of 18:00 on the 5th, a total of 2,901,534 people have been diagnosed in Germany, 2,581,472 people have been cured, and 77,726 people have died.

As of that day, Germany has received 14374088 doses of vaccine, and a total of 4,334,150 people received the second dose.

　　Rashet made the above statement after inspecting the vaccination center in Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia that day.

The number of severely ill patients with the new crown in Germany has exceeded 4,100 in the 5th day. Raschelt said that Germany is currently in an extraordinary state and must take action as soon as possible.

　　He warned that if the epidemic is allowed to develop, the number of severely ill patients will continue to surge. For this reason, a more stringent “bridging lockdown” must be implemented to control the epidemic data at a low level, and to maintain this state through testing until The vaccination rate has increased.

　　Raschelt said that this means that Germany will have to implement blockade measures in many areas again, and may also expand the scope of the curfew.

He also called for the advancement of the epidemic prevention policy meeting attended by Chancellor Merkel and state governors to this week.

　　Rashet was elected as the new chairman of the CDU in January this year.

He is seen as a potential successor to Merkel who is expected to represent the party in the September election this year.

However, as of now, Raschelt has not made a clear statement on whether to stand for election.

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