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November 11, 2021 Germany yesterday recorded a record of 50,196 new Covid infections and 235 deaths. The health authorities make it known. It is the first time that Germany has exceeded 50,000 cases per day since the start of the pandemic, and it comes as infections and deaths have soared in recent days. It is the first time that the threshold of 50,000 new cases per day has been exceeded since the beginning of the pandemic. The Robert Koch Institute reported that the seven-day incidence of confirmed cases of infection per 100,000 population rises to 249.1. Yesterday the figure was 232.1 and the bulletin spoke of 39,676 new cases and 236 deaths. In the country, the percentage of the population vaccinated is almost 70%.



To try to stem the wave in some areas of the country from Monday in the country no restaurants, cinemas or exhibitions for the unvaccinated. But it is not said that it will be enough to stop the wave. There is debate on the alarm raised by the virologist of the Charité of Berlin Christian Drosten, according to which the country "is in a real emergency situation" and it will be necessary to "reduce contacts again". Drosten fears that if action is not taken, there could be another 100,000 dead. 



Spokesperson for Angela Merkel: vaccinated quota is not enough, we need to do like Italy


"The share of vaccinated people in Germany is not sufficient to counter the impetus of the Covid infection. If we had 10-15% more vaccinated people we would have a lower incidence of the virus" and the data from Spain, Portugal and Italy "show this. ".

This was stated by Angela Merkel's spokesperson, Steffen Seibert, responding to a question about why this fourth wave is hitting Germany so strongly, which today registered nearly 40,000 new positive cases.

Seibert also recalled how the Delta variant of Covid is particularly contagious.