The summit between state and regions on anti Covid measures scheduled for next Monday in Berlin will not be held in Germany.
This is what transpires from a document reported by the broadcaster NTV.
In Germany there is strong tension on the hypothesis of a new lockdown to curb the third wave requested by Angela Merkel, by the Minister of Health Jens Spahn and by Union politicians, while several Laender push for openings.
The Robert Koch Institut has again warned against overloading the German health system, due to the third wave of the pandemic: currently 4,500 patients are hospitalized for Covid in intensive care in Germany, where the number of occupied beds "continues to rise. ".
"700 new arrivals were registered last week, an increase of 20% in seven days," said the president of the Robert Koch Institut, Lothar Wieler, at a press conference in Berlin with the Minister of Health, Jens Spahn.
85% of these patients have to resort to artificial respiration, he stressed.
And the number of hospitalizations between 35 and 49 years of age increases significantly.
The problem that arises in the German health system "is not only the overloading of the structures, with the issue of beds and equipment, but also the over-fatigue of health personnel, doctors and nurses struggling with the fight against the pandemic" .
According to Lothar Wieler, "the contagion data is not as significant as we would like due to the slowdown due to the Easter holidays. But we expect the numbers to be realistic again in the middle of next week".
According to the Institute's daily bulletin, 25,464 new infections have been registered and 298 deaths.
The weekly incidence rose to 110.4 per 100 thousand inhabitants.
Meanwhile, a surprisingly sharp drop in German industrial production in February.
According to the German Ministry of Economy it fell, month over month, by 1.6% against an expected increase of 1.5%.
Year on year the result is -6.4%.