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Figures from the Robert Koch Institute: The seven

2021-12-20T03:59:52.795Z


The health authorities in Germany reported 119 more corona deaths within 24 hours. In addition, 16,086 new infections were registered. The debate about an impending lockdown is now becoming more intense.


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Transport of corona patient in Lower Saxony (archive image)

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After a week-long downward trend, the nationwide

seven-day incidence of

new corona infections rose again slightly.

According to the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) on Monday morning, the value was

316

.

The day before it was 315.4, a week ago it was 402.9.

As the RKI further reported, citing data from the health authorities,

16,086 new infections were

recorded

within 24 hours

.

That is 5657 fewer cases than on Monday a week ago, when 21,743 positive tests were reported.

The total number on Mondays is always lower than on the other working days due to the previous weekend.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the health authorities have reported a total of 6,809,622 cases.

The institute put the number of people recovered from illness caused by the coronavirus in Germany at around 5,801,400.

The total number of

corona deaths

in Germany rose by

119

to 108,352.

The seven-day incidence indicates the number of new infections per 100,000 inhabitants within a week.

The value rose rapidly from the beginning of November.

As a result, new highs were recorded every day.

The number then fell again at the beginning of December.

On November 18, the federal and state governments set the so-called hospitalization incidence as the decisive benchmark for tightening the corona measures.

This value indicates how many people per 100,000 inhabitants are in hospital within seven days because of a corona infection.

From a value of three, the 2G rule applies across the board for events in a federal state - that is, only those vaccinated against the coronavirus and those recovered from Covid-19 are allowed.

According to the RKI, the nationwide

hospitalization

incidence

on Friday was

5.10

.

Discussion about possible lockdown

Following the advance of the Netherlands, the debate about new anti-virus measures is also picking up speed in Germany.

The new Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) had ruled out a lockdown before Christmas.

However, calls are already coming from the green coalition partner for tough action after the holidays.

Most recently, the Secretary General of the German Society for Immunology, Carsten Watzl, made a statement.

He assumes that booster vaccinations alone will not be enough to contain the omicron variant of the coronavirus: "Unfortunately, I see a lockdown coming up that will affect us all," he told the "Augsburger Allgemeine".

Concern about pollution in hospitals

"The first reports indicate that even after the booster, the protection against an omicron infection could only be around 75 percent, while with Delta it is well over 90 percent after the third vaccination," continues Watzl.

"That would mean that many more vaccinated people could become infected with Omicron," he emphasized.

"We will have to reduce the incidences, which are soaring at Omikron, very sharply, and we will not be able to do that now, as in this fourth wave, with booster vaccinations, but only again with distance and contact restrictions," said Watzl.

Even if the vaccination reduces the risk of illness by 80 percent or 90 percent, there is still a high residual risk that some of the vaccinated will end up in hospital.

Therefore, with an impending, rapidly growing wave of omicrons and a sharp increase in the number of infected people, the hospital burden will inevitably rise.

jok / AFP

Source: spiegel

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