(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) German Delta Strain Cases Increase
China News Agency, Berlin, June 17 (Reporter Peng Dawei) Although the new crown epidemic in Germany continues to slow down, the data released by the disease control department on the 17th shows that the proportion of new confirmed cases infected with the delta mutant strain in the past week The week’s 3.7% climbed to 6.2%.
German public health experts warned that the delta strain may trigger a new wave of epidemics in the country this fall.
The German disease control agency announced on the 17th that the number of newly diagnosed new coronaviruses and the number of new deaths were 1330 and 105 respectively.
According to real-time data from Germany's "Times Online", as of 20 o'clock on the 17th local time, a total of 3.726 million confirmed cases and 90,807 deaths in Germany.
As of that day, Germany has received 63.7 million doses of vaccine, and a total of 23.916 million people have been fully vaccinated.
The new crown variant strain, named as the Delta strain by the WHO, was first discovered in India. It has spread rapidly in the UK recently and has caused a sharp rebound of the epidemic in the UK.
In response to the fact that the delta strain announced by the disease control agency has increased in the proportion of new cases in Germany in the past week, Brockman, an expert at the Institute of Biology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, warned that people should break through the current epidemic prevention measures against this strain. The possibility of maintaining a high degree of vigilance.
Brockman said that compared with the Alpha strain that is currently spreading most in Germany (first discovered in the UK), the Delta strain spreads faster and has a higher basic infection number R value. “Therefore, it needs to be very serious. attention".
Lauterbach, a German public health expert, also expressed concern about the spread of the delta strain in Germany.
He told the German media that by this fall, the delta strain may cause a rebound in the number of new diagnoses in Germany, which will cause trouble for epidemic prevention.
He cited a recent study from the University of Oxford to point out that the newly emerged variant strain of the new crown has a stronger "seasonality" than the original strain, which means that it has a lower risk of transmission in summer.
But he also pointed out that the Delta strain has a triple risk: significantly enhanced transmission, an increase in the rate of severe illness, and partly resistance to vaccines (especially for those who have received only one shot).
However, Lauterbach also pointed out that given that a considerable number of people in Germany have been vaccinated with two doses, there may not be a large-scale outbreak like the previous wave.
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