The number of severely ill patients with new crown in Germany breaks 1,000 again, the highest since June

　　(Fighting new crown pneumonia) The number of severely ill patients with new crown in Germany once again surpasses 1,000, the highest since June

　　China News Agency, Berlin, August 29 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The number of severely ill patients with COVID-19 in Germany on the 29th broke 1,000 again (1008), a record high since June this year.

　　According to data from the Robert Koch Institute, a German disease control agency, the number of newly diagnosed people and the number of new deaths in Germany that day were 8,416 and 12 respectively, with a total of 3.932 million diagnosed and 92,118 deaths.

Germany's official COVID-19 incidence index (the cumulative number of new diagnoses per 100,000 people in seven days), which is officially used by Germany to monitor the severity of the new crown epidemic, continued to rebound on the same day, rising from 72.1 the day before to 74.1.

　　The German Interdisciplinary Association of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) issued a report that day that a total of 1,008 new crown patients in Germany need to receive intensive care treatment, of which 485 need to use ventilators.

The last time the number of severely ill patients with new coronary disease in Germany exceeded 1,000 was on June 18 this year. Since then, the number of severely ill patients has gradually dropped to a low of 354 (data on July 22).

However, as Germany entered the fourth wave of the epidemic since August, the number of newly diagnosed patients continued to rebound sharply, and the number of severely ill patients continued to rise.

　　The report shows that the current severe cases and deaths of the new crown in Germany are mainly concentrated in people who have not been vaccinated.

The association also pointed out that, unlike last year’s critically ill patients, who were mainly elderly, the overall age of critically ill patients in this round of the epidemic was relatively low: 1/10 of the patients were between 30-39 years old, and 1/5 were 40-49 years old. , 1/4 are 50-59 years old, and 1/5 are 60-69 years old.

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