“Wave number five is coming,” TASS quotes Scholz's statement.

He added that, according to experts, this wave will be even more aggressive than the previous ones.

“Even for those who received two doses of the vaccine and got sick, the threat of infection is high,” he warned.

Earlier it was reported that the number of detected cases of coronavirus in Germany exceeded 6 million.

Virologist Yevgeny Timakov, in an interview with FAN, gave a forecast regarding the situation with coronavirus before the New Year holidays.