(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) The cumulative number of confirmed diagnoses in Germany for the first time exceeds 100,000 in a single day, accounting for nearly 10% of the total population
China News Agency, Berlin, January 19 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The number of new confirmed cases of new coronavirus infection in a single day announced by the German CDC on the 19th exceeded 100,000 for the first time, reaching 112,323, the highest since the outbreak of the new crown virus.
As of that day, the cumulative number of confirmed cases in Germany has reached 8,186,850, accounting for nearly 10% of the country's total population (83.2 million).
The German disease control agency Robert Koch Institute announced on the 19th that the number of new confirmed cases and the number of new deaths were 112,323 and 239 respectively.
Among them, the "average cumulative number of newly confirmed cases per 100,000 people in seven days" (incidence rate index), which is officially used to monitor the severity of the epidemic, surged to 584.4 that day, and the index has refreshed the extreme value since the epidemic for several consecutive days.
The number of patients requiring intensive care in the ICU decreased by 93 from the previous day to a total of 2,571.
As of that day, a total of 159.7 million doses of the new crown vaccine have been vaccinated in Germany, and a total of 60.7 million people have been fully vaccinated, accounting for 72.9% of the country's total population; 40.1 million people have received booster shots, accounting for 48.3% of the total population.
In response to the current epidemic situation in Germany, German Health Minister Lauterbach told German media on the same day that the current round of large-scale epidemics caused by the mutant strain of Omicron is expected to peak within a few weeks, "I think we will be in February. The peak of the epidemic is reached in the middle of the year, and after that, the number of confirmed cases may drop again."
He warned that the current epidemic has not yet reached its peak, and due to the large number of unreported confirmed cases, the incidence rate index calculated by the disease control agency may be far below the true national level.
Lauterbach once again called on the country's political circles to push Congress to pass the mandatory vaccination bill as soon as possible to avoid another large-scale outbreak in the fall.
He reminded that if the legislative process is started now, the bill is expected to take effect in April to May this year, and it will be September to October this year when people have received the third dose of the vaccine.
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