(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) The cumulative number of confirmed diagnoses in Germany exceeds 19 million. Experts predict that the high incidence rate may continue until Easter.
China News Agency, Berlin, March 23 (Reporter Ma Xiuxiu) The epidemic data released by the German CDC on the 23rd showed that in the past 24 hours, 283,732 new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia were added in Germany. 19 million.
Drosten, an authoritative German virologist, predicts that the current strong spread of the new coronavirus may continue until around mid-April.
"It will remain so until Easter if there is no intervention."
The number of new diagnoses and new deaths announced by the Robert Koch Institute, the German disease control agency, was 283,732 and 329, respectively.
As of that day, Germany had a total of 19,278,143 confirmed cases and 127,522 deaths.
The total number of patients requiring intensive care in the ICU decreased by 47 that day to 2,335; at least 63.1 million people in the country have been fully vaccinated so far, accounting for about 75.8% of the country's total population, and at least 48.5 million people have been vaccinated Strengthen the needle, accounting for 58.3% of the total population.
Germany's new crown incidence index (an average of seven-day cumulative new diagnoses per 100,000 people) used to monitor the severity of the epidemic rose again to 1734.2.
The day before, the value was 1733.4; a week ago it was 1607.1.
Drosten is director of the Institute for Virology at the Charité School of Medicine in Berlin.
In an interview with the German weekly Die Zeit that day, he predicted that the current strong spread of the new crown virus may continue until around mid-April.
"We're in a high incidence phase right now. It's going to be that way until Easter if we don't intervene."
He said that in response to the fall epidemic, effective drugs must be prepared for at-risk patients.
In summer, relatively mild measures may have to be used to control infection, and wearing masks indoors is still one of the most effective measures.
Young people, three-shot vaccine recipients can move freely again.
Long-term COVID-19 symptoms were significantly reduced among vaccinated people.
Talking about the winter situation, Drosten expects that more stringent measures will likely be adopted again.
He stressed that current immunity is no longer helpful against the spread of the virus in the fall.
Generally, it takes years to gradually build up herd immunity, such as against influenza.
Therefore, people "must also take relatively mild measures to control the incidence of new crowns in autumn and winter in the next few years." (End)