Almost 40 thousand infections in 24 hours, Germany is in full Covid emergency and the soft line of recent weeks will have to be quickly corrected, according to the experts, who sound the alarm and go so far as to ask for the vaccination obligation for teachers and health professionals, violating a sort of taboo in a country where even early childhood vaccines are not binding on parents.
“The country is in a real emergency”, warned the virologist of the Charité of Berlin, Christian Drosten, who added a disturbing estimate: “If we do not act immediately we could have another 100,000 deaths. And the forecast is cautious. “. A key figure in Angela Merkel’s government, Drosten called a new reduction in contacts “inevitable” and raised the need to “go back to measures that we hoped we had left behind, let’s face it: lockdown measures”. A big problem for German politicians who, at a bipartisan level, have been repeating for weeks to “exclude” new closures. Meanwhile, a drastic signal has come from Berlin, where the local Senate, due to strong contagion data, has decided to keep unvaccinated people out of bars, restaurants, cinemas and public events, announcing that the negative test will no longer be valid. over 18 years.
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“The pandemic is spreading dramatically”, said Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, clarifying that the chancellor wants a meeting “as soon as possible” between the state and the regions to establish new measures. The conference that served as the institutional basis in the management of the first waves of Covid has not yet been convened due to the reservations of the Social Democrats, who are aiming for the next executive led by Olaf Scholz. However, Seibert stressed that “both the government and the politicians who work to form the future government feel the responsibility to guarantee the protection of citizens’ health and prevent the overloading of hospitals”. In this climate, Italy has long been looked at as a model, and today it was the spokesman of the Bundesregierung himself who quoted it once again: “Our quota of vaccinated people is not enough against the virus. With a 10- 15% more vaccinated, the incidence would be lower. As the data from Spain, Portugal and Italy show, “he said.
On the agenda is also the possible introduction of the German Greenpass (in Germany it is called the 3G model) in the workplace: employees could soon be asked to show a vaccine certificate, a cure or a negative test, reactivating the campaign of free tests for all, being studied on the negotiating table of the so-called ‘Semaphore’, the coalition formed by the SPD, the Greens and the liberals working for an agreement. It was then the National Scientific Academy of Leopoldina to urge to make the anticovid vaccine mandatory for professions that can act as multipliers of cases, such as teachers and health professionals. The famous institute also asked for the more severe model (2G) to be extended where necessary, allowing access to premises and public events only for the immunized (thus excluding those who have not had the vaccine). The one already in force since last Monday in Saxony.
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According to the Robert Koch Institut, 39,676 new positives and 236 victims were reported in 24 hours (last week there were 20,676). And even if the benchmark is now hospitalization, several regions already have health structures in collapse, such as Saxony, Thuringia and Bavaria.
The Land of Munich has declared a state of emergency, having as many as 9 districts of the ten most affected by the virus: at Rottal Inn the weekly incidence has reached the federal record with 1,104 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. On a national basis, this value reached its third peak in three days of the entire pandemic, with 232.1 positive. It goes without saying that the red alert is putting a serious mortgage on next Christmas too: a nightmare already lived – last year the Germans celebrated it in lockdown – and there are already cancellations of some markets.
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