The corona numbers are rising and rising in Germany, the intensive care beds are filling up.
Nevertheless, vaccination registrations are stagnating.
The development in this country is also viewed with great concern abroad.
Munich - Germany was once considered a Corona model that navigated the crisis confidently and with a halfway stable health system.
Those days are probably over.
On Thursday (November 11th) the RKI reported an incredible 50,000 new infections, more than ever before.
The nationwide 7-day incidence also cracked a record at 249.1, 235 people died in connection with the virus in just one day.
And yet, the vaccination rate stagnates.
For several weeks it has been almost 70 percent - far too little for herd immunity.
Politicians are desperately looking for solutions, virologists are pushing for more measures and promoting booster vaccinations.
Christian Drosten insisted that the 2G rule alone was not enough, it had to go hand in hand with increased vaccinations and tests.
Foreign press concerned about the corona situation in Germany
In view of the steadily increasing number of infections, it is therefore no wonder that people are gradually starting to think about Germany as a model for the coronavirus, also abroad.
Especially in southern Europe, where you had to experience for yourself how dramatically the pandemic situation can worsen, the situation is causing frowns, reports
express.de
.
Because the corona situation there is currently relatively relaxed, the incidences are low and the vaccination rates are high.
In Spain, for example, the 7-day incidence is just 41.2 (as of November 11) in Italy 72.8.
The French newspaper
L'Express
writes "Despite the vaccines that Germany is distributing, it is setting a sad record", alluding to the particularly low vaccination rate in the country.
The transfer of power between Merkel and the new government is now leading to an inability to act.
Spanish newspaper on vaccinations: "Merkel's greatest mission"
The Spanish newspaper
El Mundo
is certain: vaccinating Germany will be Angela “Merkel's greatest mission”. The newspaper continues to ask whether she will succeed in handing over the land as healthy as possible. But even in the USA one wonders what is wrong with Germany. The broadcaster
CNBC,
for example, headlines “Germany was the Corona model child. Now there are 50,000 cases a day "and notes that Germany took action against the virus at the beginning of the pandemic more successfully than its neighbors, but is now facing problems because of the low vaccination rate. "It has to deal with stubborn anti-vaccination opponents in its population," said
CNBC
.
The British side,
the Guardian, also
suspects the low vaccination rate as the cause of the explosive corona situation.
Unlike other countries, Germany has not imposed any compulsory vaccination for certain occupational groups.
One thing seems certain: The increasingly bad Corona situation in the country seems to be noticeable all over the world and is causing a lot of question marks.
(jv)