(Fighting against new crown pneumonia) Germany's epidemic index returns to double digits
China News Agency, Berlin, July 19 (Reporter Peng Dawei) On the 18th, the important indicator used by the German authorities to monitor the severity of the new crown epidemic, "the average number of newly diagnosed cases per 100,000 people in seven days", remained in the single digits for nearly a month. After that, it rebounded to 10 again.
In response to the fourth wave of possible outbreaks in Germany, German Economy Minister Altmeier said on the same day that the government will avoid re-implementing measures to "close the city" in view of the business and catering industries that have been affected for several months.
The German disease control agency Robert Koch Institute announced that the number of newly diagnosed new crown virus infections and the number of new deaths were 1,292 and 3, respectively, with a total of 3,744,681 diagnoses and 91,362 deaths.
Among them, the “accumulated number of newly diagnosed cases per 100,000 people in seven days” rose to 10 on the same day.
This value once fell to single digits in mid-June this year, but has gradually rebounded since July, and has rebounded for the eleventh consecutive day as of the 18th.
In terms of vaccination, as of the day, Germany had received 85.6 million doses of vaccines, and a total of 38,194,316 people were fully vaccinated, accounting for 45.9% of the country's total population.
German scientists have issued a warning that as the delta strain further spreads, the fourth wave of outbreaks this fall may become a high probability event.
The latest report released by the New Crown Epidemic Research Group of the Technical University of Berlin shows that unless the two conditions of "the effectiveness of the vaccine against the delta strain can be proved to be higher than the known level" or "the German vaccination rate reaches 95%" are met. One of them, otherwise Germany will be unable to avoid the fourth wave of epidemics.
In this regard, Altmaier told the "Sunday Bild" that day that if the "city closure" measures were implemented again, this would be devastating to those commercial enterprises and catering companies that have been closed for several months. We must avoid a new round of'closure of the city', and we will do this too."
Altmeier believes that there is currently no need to further tighten epidemic prevention measures.
He said that as long as the German public health system does not face the risk of overload, then there is no reason to take new measures, let alone "close the city."
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