(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) The cumulative number of confirmed diagnoses in Germany approaches 3 million, and the medical system faces the risk of overload
China News Agency, Berlin, April 10 (Reporter Peng Dawei) As of the evening of the 10th local time, the cumulative number of people diagnosed with the new crown virus in Germany has approached 3 million.
The country’s medical experts and major hospitals have warned that the risk of overloading the medical system is increasing.
Data map: On the evening of April 2, local time, the German capital Berlin began to implement a "quasi-curfew". The picture shows the Brandenburg Gate being off the beaten track.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Peng Dawei
The German disease control agency announced that the number of new confirmed cases and the number of new deaths were 24097 and 246 respectively.
According to real-time data from Germany's "Times Online", as of 21:25 on the 10th local time, a total of 2,976,773 people have been diagnosed, 2,661,285 people have been cured, and 78,992 people have died in Germany.
As of that day, Germany had received 17,580,596 doses of vaccine, and a total of 4910308 people received the second dose.
Frank Montgomery, the chairman of the German World Medical Association, warned that the critically ill patients currently admitted to German hospitals were basically infected with the new crown virus four weeks ago, which means that the current correct approach is to require hospitals across the country to do a good job for the surge in admissions. ready.
Berlin Charité Hospital, Germany's largest medical institution, is also preparing to deal with a possible "run" on intensive care beds.
Currently, there are about 280 severely ill patients with COVID-19 in Berlin, and 90 of them are admitted to the hospital.
Martin Kleis, a member of the board of directors of the Charité Hospital, said that if the number of critically ill patients exceeds the peak during the second wave of the epidemic last year, Charité Hospital will face a very serious situation.
He warned that the current trend is very clear and action must be taken.
German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) President Gernot Marks said that at present, an average of 100 critically ill patients are added every day. Following this trend, the number of critically ill patients in Germany will "inevitably" exceed 5,000 by the end of this month. .
According to German media reports, in response to the current severe epidemic, the German federal government plans to revise the current infectious disease prevention and control law next week, adopt unified national rules, and further tighten epidemic prevention efforts in severely affected areas, including mandatory curfews, etc. Measures.
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