China News Agency, Berlin, November 25 (Reporter Peng Dawei) On the 25th, the severity of the new crown epidemic in Germany reached a new high.

The country’s disease control agency announced that the number of newly diagnosed infections that day exceeded 75,000 for the first time, reaching 75,961.

As of the same day, the number of patients who died of the new crown virus in Germany had exceeded 100,000, reaching 100,119.

　　The German disease control agency Robert Koch Institute announced that the number of new confirmed cases and the number of new deaths were 75,961 and 351 respectively. As of that day, a total of 5,573,756 were diagnosed and 100,119 died.

Among them, the country's official "accumulative number of newly confirmed cases per 100,000 people in seven days" (incidence rate index) used to monitor the severity of the epidemic rose to 419.7 that day.

The index has continuously broken through the single-day extreme value since November 8.

There were 132 new patients requiring ICU intensive care treatment, bringing the total number to 4202.

As of that day, Germany had received 119.5 million doses of the new crown vaccine, and a total of 56.7 million people had been fully vaccinated, accounting for about 68.2% of the country's total population.

　　The earliest deaths from the new crown in Germany appeared in early March 2020.

During the peak of the third wave of the epidemic from December 2020 to January 2021, the number of deaths in Germany exceeded 43,000 in two months. In the most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia, more than 7,700 people died of the new crown. .

Since the beginning of winter in 2021, the epidemic in Germany has deteriorated sharply again, and the fourth wave of epidemics has swept all over the country.

　　German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was in the countdown to ruling time, called on the German Chancellor-elect Schultz when meeting reporters with the visiting Polish Prime Minister in Berlin that day, saying that Germany must implement more measures to limit interpersonal contact.

She warned that the epidemic situation continues to be severe, the number of new cases in Germany has been increasing exponentially, and hospitals may face overload in the future.

　　According to the established schedule, if nothing happens, Schultz is expected to formally take office as prime minister within a week from December 6.

On December 9, the German Chancellor in power will hold another meeting on epidemic prevention policy with the governors of the states.

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