(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Germany's newly diagnosed cases exceed 10,000 for two consecutive days, and a total of 3.9 million people have been diagnosed
China News Agency, Berlin, August 26 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The German disease control agency announced on the 26th that the number of newly diagnosed new crown virus infections was 12,626, which has exceeded 10,000 for the second consecutive day.
As of that day, the cumulative number of people diagnosed with the new crown virus in Germany has exceeded 3.9 million.
The German disease control agency Robert Koch Institute announced that the number of new diagnoses and new deaths were 12,626 and 21, respectively. As of that day, a total of 3,901,799 were diagnosed and a total of 92,082 died.
Among them, the number of new diagnoses in a single day on the 26th set a new high since the beginning of May this year.
Germany's official new crown incidence index (the cumulative number of new diagnoses per 100,000 people in seven days) used by the German government to monitor the severity of the new crown epidemic further rebounded on the same day, and its value rose to 66 from 61.3 the day before.
Up to now, Germany has received 10.6 million doses of the new crown vaccine, and a total of 49,659,889 people have been fully vaccinated, accounting for 59.7% of the country's total population.
With the increase in the vaccination rate, although the number of new diagnoses per day is still rebounding, the number of new deaths in a single day has dropped significantly compared with the period during the third wave of the epidemic in the first half of this year.
In view of this, the German Federal Government plans to further amend the current infectious disease prevention and control law to delete the requirement that "more stringent epidemic prevention measures will be triggered after the new crown incidence index reaches 50."
However, this plan has been criticized from the medical community.
Christian Karajanides, chairman of the German Association of Internal Medicine Critical and Emergency Medicine, told German media that the signal released by "removing the warning value of 50" is worthy of criticism.
He emphasized that the significance of the morbidity index has undoubtedly changed, but in any case, we should not abandon this indicator, but should establish a comprehensive set of three indicators including the morbidity index, hospitalization rate and ICU severe disease rate. The index is used to observe the severity of the epidemic.
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