The third dose of Covid vaccine for everyone six months after the second.
This is the main measure decided by the conference of health ministers of the Laender in Germany.
"The fourth wave has accelerated a lot and hits with great vehemence. We have tough weeks ahead of us," said German Health Minister Jens Spahn, meeting with the press after the meeting.
There are 37,120 new cases of contagion from Covid registered in the 24 hours in Germany by the Robert Koch Institut and 154 patients who died with or from the virus.
If yesterday the record of positives had been reached since the beginning of the pandemic, today the highest weekly value is reported, with 169.9 patients per 100 thousand inhabitants in seven days (the maximum threshold was reached on April 26 last).
The hospitalization index, considered a priority in this phase, is slightly but steadily rising, with 3.73 patients in intensive care per 100,000 inhabitants.
A figure far from the maximum threshold reached at Christmas last year, when it reached 15.5.
