Corona incidence rises for the sixth day in a row: Expert criticizes RKI statement - "science fiction"

The corona incidence rises for the sixth day in a row, and new infections rise again.

One expert considers a high vaccination rate for "science fiction".

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• The Corona * incidence is increasing for the sixth day in a row.

• One expert considers a high vaccination rate for "science fiction" (see original report).

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Berlin - It should be a relaxed summer, now the Corona * situation in Germany seems to want to come back into focus.

For the sixth day in a row, the seven-day incidence, which was previously important for politicians and experts, has risen.

According to the Robert Koch Institute, more people have been newly infected with the coronavirus * in the past 24 hours than in the week before.

Corona in Germany: RKI reports increase in new infections and incidence for the sixth day in a row

As the RKI reported early Monday morning, the incidence is now 6.4 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants. The day before it was given as 6.2. According to this, the health authorities in Germany have registered 324 new infections within the past 24 hours. A week ago, the number of new infections was given as 212. According to the new information, two deaths were recorded across Germany within 24 hours. It was dead a week ago.

While the corona numbers are slowly rising again, many experts are placing their hopes in the highest possible vaccination rate.

But the chairman of the board of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians, Andreas Gassen, considers a vaccination rate of 90 percent to be illusory and the 85 percent aimed at by the Robert Koch Institute as unrealistic.

“We have to realize that vaccination rates of 90 percent are science fiction.

We will never reach them, "said Gassen on Sunday evening in the

-Politiktalk" The right questions ".

Corona in Germany: high vaccination rate "science fiction" - expert paints a completely different scenario

He would set a high vaccination rate “beyond 70 percent.” With the vaccination campaign “you will come to a point where you run into an invisible wall because people do not want to be vaccinated, because they ignore Corona or because they distrust vaccinations "Said Gassen.

Gassen also referred to almost four million people recovered from corona disease. With an unreported figure of a factor of two

to three, there are probably even ten million recovered. The decisive factor for him is: "Will the fourth wave be a laboratory wave where you only have positive results and no more sick people?" Then you can see it very calmly when the number of infections increases again in a few weeks.

More than 58 percent of people in Germany had received at least one vaccine dose as of Saturday. A good 42 percent are fully vaccinated. The number of new infections rose slightly in the past few days from a low level.