German health minister Jens Spahn warned on Monday that by the end of this winter the Germans will be “vaccinated, cured or dead” given the current rise in infections caused by the new coronavirus in the country.
“Probably by the end of winter, as they sometimes cynically say, everyone or almost everyone will be vaccinated, cured or die” due to the spread of the delta variant of the new coronavirus, which is “very, very contagious,” the German minister said.
Jens Spahn has once again called on Germans to get an “emergency” vaccination given the surge in SARS-CoV-2 cases in the country in recent weeks.
Germany, especially the southern and eastern regions, has been hit hard by a new wave of infections, which researchers and policymakers associate in particular with Vaccination rate (68%) – lowest in Western Europe…
Faced with a resurgence of the virus that has killed more than 99,000 people in the country since the start of the pandemic, outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her likely successor, Olaf Scholz, decided on Thursday to tighten restrictions on the unvaccinated but not vaccinated. ruled out compulsory vaccination of the entire population…
“Now we have the fourth wave, we have a very, very difficult situation in many hospitals in Germany,” Spahn said at a press conference.
“We see that this wave is gradually spreading to the west,” the minister added. Hospital intensive care units are reaching their saturation point, mainly due to staff shortages.
Last few days Germany recorded an unprecedented number of infectionsexceeding the limit of 65,000 daily infections last week. This Monday, the seven-day incidence rate reached a record high of 386.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Angela Merkel, who is about to step down from power, lamented this “very dramatic” fourth wave, as German leaders intend to drastically curtail the social life of the unvaccinated.
Covid-19 has caused at least 5,144,573 deaths worldwide, out of more than 256.54 million new coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest report from Agence France-Presse.
The disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, discovered at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently variants identified in several countries.
