The COVID-19 epidemic has not passed, and the number of severely ill patients in Germany has begun to increase again. After German Foreign Minister Berbock was infected with the new coronavirus a month ago, he still has difficulty getting up to the second floor.
After entering July, Germany canceled almost all anti-epidemic measures against the new crown epidemic. People felt, "We have defeated the epidemic"! But this is not the case. Germany records more than 100,000 new infections every day! The true number of new infections is much higher, because only those who show positive nucleic acid tests are included in the statistics, but many people do not take nucleic acid tests.
The new number announced by the Robert Koch Institute on Thursday (July 14) was 5.152149 cases, 145 people died related to the new crown in the past 24 hours, and the seven-day infection rate per 100,000 people was 720. To make matters worse, all of these numbers are trending upward.
The Federal Ministry of Health sounded the alarm, tweeting on its official Twitter account, "The pressure on intensive care units has begun to increase again. By autumn, we will not be able to withstand much infection space. While medical staff are absent from work, The number of cases will increase. This shows that we are not talking about a 'COVID-19 pandemic becoming a regional epidemic' now." A more sinister new variant of
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The difficulty of controlling the epidemic is related to the continuous mutation of the new coronavirus. It is already known that the variant Omicron continues to mutate into branches. After BA.1 and BA.2, appears BA.5, which is currently the most important Omicron variant in Germany. Soon Recently, Professor Christian Drosten, an authority on the new coronavirus in Germany, said in an interview with " Der Spiegel " that there are signs that BA.5 is different from the previous BA.1 and BA.2, and BA.5 has begun to invade the throat again. below the respiratory tract.
German experts also said that we have underestimated the BA.5 variant. Although the severity rate of patients with BA.5 is not high, the number of infected people is so high that many people have to go to the hospital for treatment.
Bell Bock: It is difficult to go up two floors now
Many German politicians are experiencing such risks. Federal Minister of Economy and Environment Robert Habeck canceled all scheduled public events on Wednesday (July 13), and it was later learned that he had also been "taught". Habaek announced that he will quarantine at home and work at the same time.
Robert Habeck
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who also belongs to the Green Party, has also been infected before and has not fully recovered yet.
Baerbock (Annalena Baerbock)
About a month ago, Baerbock felt unwell when she was visiting Pakistan . She found that she had lost her sense of taste at the banquet and tested positive for the new crown. Bellbock told reporters on Wednesday that she had received four shots of the vaccine before entering her summer vacation. She said that after contracting the new crown virus, she was bedridden at home for two weeks. To this day, she has difficulty going up two floors.
