The fourth corona wave piles up higher and higher.
Chancellor Merkel calls for stricter measures.
Health Minister Spahn and RKI boss Wieler comment on Friday.
Berlin - The corona situation in Germany is worsening: the nationwide 7-day incidence continued to rise on Thursday (November 25), and new highs were also recorded on Friday. 76,414 new infections were registered within one day. However, the sad number of the day is different: since the pandemic began, more than 100,000 people have died from or with the coronavirus in Germany: On Thursday, the number after 351 deaths within 24 hours was 100,119, according to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).
“Behind this number are 100,000 people who have lost their lives.
And many more children, parents, siblings, partners, friends, colleagues who mourn them, ”wrote the RKI on Twitter.
On Friday (November 26th), RKI President Lothar Wieler and Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) will classify the current Corona situation in the house of the Federal Press Conference from 10 a.m.
Corona press conference: RKI boss Wieler and Minister of Health Spahn speak
Due to the dramatic situation, more and more federal states are adopting strict corona measures and are preparing for the absolute emergency: triage. In Bavaria, too, preparations are currently underway for the transfer of corona patients from overloaded hospitals. According to previous information, 50 corona intensive care patients are expected to be brought from the Free State to other federal states for treatment in the coming days.
In view of the further worsening of the corona situation, Chancellor Angela Merkel is pushing for additional measures.
At a press conference after a meeting with the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Merkel said on Thursday that she had spoken to Olaf Scholz about it during the day.
The aim was to jointly initiate the necessary steps in the current transition phase.
Corona tightening required: What do Spahn and Wieler say at the press conference?
While the federal and state governments are currently doing everything they can to break the fourth wave, RKI boss Wieler warns of the next.
On Thursday he told the German Press Agency that Germany might have to adjust to a fifth wave.
As a way out of the fourth wave, experts like Wieler and SPD health expert Karl Lauterbach primarily set contact restrictions, in the fifth wave mainly on vaccination.
This is one of the reasons why there is currently intensive and impulsive discussion in Germany about a possible vaccination requirement.
More and more country leaders are no longer excluding them.
Will Spahn and Wieler comment on the German vaccination schedule and other restrictions in Germany at their press conference on Friday (November 26th)?
You will find out at 10 a.m. in this live ticker.
(jo / dpa)