(Fighting against new crown pneumonia) Germany has confirmed more than 7 million diagnoses and more than 110,000 deaths to tighten epidemic prevention measures
China News Agency, Berlin, December 27 (Reporter Peng Dawei) According to data released by the German disease control agency on the 27th, the cumulative number of confirmed cases of the new crown virus in the country has exceeded 7 million, and the number of deaths due to the new crown has exceeded the previous day. One hundred and ten thousand.
On the same day, the German states of Bad Württemberg and Lower Saxony announced the beginning of stricter epidemic prevention measures than before, such as restricting interpersonal contact.
Within one month of December 2021, Germany experienced the most serious round of newly diagnosed surges since the outbreak.
On the 3rd of this month, the cumulative number of confirmed new crown cases in Germany exceeded 6 million.
In less than a month, this number has increased by 1 million.
The German disease control agency Robert Koch Institute announced on the 27th that the number of new diagnoses and the number of new deaths were 13,908 and 69, respectively. As of that day, a total of 7,005,289 were diagnosed and 110,433 were dead.
Among them, the country's official "accumulated number of newly confirmed cases per 100,000 people in seven days" (incidence rate index) used to monitor the severity of the epidemic rose slightly to 222.7 that day.
The number of patients requiring ICU intensive care treatment decreased by 29 compared with the previous day, and the total number is 4201.
As of that day, Germany had received 146.7 million doses of the new crown vaccine. A total of 58.9 million people have been fully vaccinated, accounting for 70.8% of the country's total population; 30 million people have been vaccinated, accounting for 36% of the total population.
In response to a new wave of epidemics that may be caused by the Omi Keron mutant strain, the German federal government and the states reached a resolution before Christmas to upgrade the epidemic prevention measures from the 28th of this month.
However, the four states of Baden-Württemberg, Lower Saxony, Brandenburg and Meiqian have already implemented the new regulations since the 27th.
The new regulations mainly include: people who have been fully vaccinated or who have been infected with the new crown and have recovered are allowed to meet with up to ten people, and those who are not fully vaccinated are only allowed to have one family with two outsiders; dance parties and other activities are prohibited; some restrictions on the business hours of the catering industry.
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