(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Germany switches to hospitalization rate as an epidemic monitoring indicator, official says vaccination rate is still too low
China News Agency, Berlin, September 8 (Reporter Peng Dawei) As the German Parliament recently completed the revision of the infectious disease prevention and control law, the main reference index for Germany to dynamically adjust the epidemic prevention policy in the future will no longer be "average seven days per 100,000 people. The number of newly confirmed cases" will be changed to the new crown hospitalization rate.
On the 8th, German Federal Minister of Health Span warned that if it hopes to survive this winter smoothly, the current complete vaccination rate of nearly 62% in Germany is still too low.
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 13,565 and 35 respectively. As of that day, a total of 4,030,681 people were diagnosed and 92,448 people died.
The hospitalization rate index released by the agency that day (that is, the average number of people hospitalized for every 100,000 residents in the past seven days because of the new crown) was 1.79. This index will replace the previous official only indicator used to monitor the severity of the epidemic, "average every ten The cumulative number of new diagnoses of 10,000 residents in seven days" has become an important reference for the German government to decide whether to increase epidemic prevention measures.
Up to now, Germany has received 103.02 million doses of the new crown vaccine, and a total of 51,207,077 people have been fully vaccinated, accounting for 61.6% of the country's total population.
Span made the above remarks when attending a news conference on the epidemic in Berlin that day.
He said that the vaccination rate played a decisive role in the development of the epidemic situation in Germany this winter.
"Vaccination, vaccination, vaccination." Shi Pan emphasized that vaccination is not only the only way to curb the fourth wave of epidemics and the spread of mutant strains such as delta, but also the only way for people to truly get out of the new crown pandemic.
"We have mastered the means to regain freedom and return to normalcy, and that is vaccination."
In response to the current sluggish vaccination rate in Germany, the President of the German Medical Association Reinhardt called on the official redesign of the communication strategy to promote vaccination, including the introduction of more targeted communication methods, lowering the threshold for new crown vaccination and other measures to persuade those willing Lower people choose to vaccinate.
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