(Fighting new crown pneumonia) Merkel says curfew is currently the only option for Germany to suspend the entry of Indian passengers
China News Agency, Berlin, April 24 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The new German epidemic prevention regulations, which adopted a national curfew for the first time, came into effect this weekend.
German Chancellor Merkel said on the 24th that people very much hope that there will be an easier way to stop and reverse the third wave of the epidemic, but there is no other choice but to implement more stringent new regulations.
The German Federal Government declared India a mutated area of the new crown virus on the same day, and will ban people other than German citizens from entering Germany from India from the next day.
Merkel made the above remarks in a weekly video speech that day.
In response to the social dissatisfaction with the new regulations called "emergency braking", Merkel emphasized that the goal of the unified national "emergency braking" measures is to bring the epidemic in Germany back under control as soon as possible, and consider relaxation. "City lockdown" measures without the risk of a surge in the number of new confirmed diagnoses.
She described the amendment, which had just been voted on by the German Bundestag this week, as "urgent and necessary."
According to the new regulations, every county and city in Germany will automatically implement a series of anti-epidemic measures including curfews if the "average number of new diagnoses per 100,000 people in seven days" is above 100 for three consecutive days.
When this value exceeds 150 and 165, it will also trigger more stringent epidemic prevention measures such as the closure of the retail industry and the suspension of primary and secondary schools.
The third wave of the epidemic in Germany has not yet seen an inflection point.
The German disease control agency announced on the same day that the newly diagnosed new crown virus and the new death toll were 23392 and 286 respectively.
According to the real-time data of Germany's "Times Online", as of 20:00 local time on the 24th, Germany had a total of 3,282,951 diagnosed, 2,881,902 cured, and 82,184 deaths.
As of that day, Germany had received 24,821,527 doses of vaccine, and a total of 5,855,864 people received the second dose.
On the same day, German Federal Minister of Health Span announced through social media that the newly discovered new variant of the new crown virus in India made Germany highly worried.
He said that in order for Germany's vaccination campaign to remain unaffected, the movement of people between the country and India must be greatly restricted.
To this end, the German federal government will temporarily declare India a "new crown virus mutation area" and stipulate that from the night of the 25th, people other than German citizens are not allowed to enter Germany from India.
German citizens must also undergo a new crown test before boarding, and must be quarantined for 14 days after arrival.
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