Original title: Germany’s epidemic rebound continues to flood-hit areas cluster infection risk raises concerns
(Fighting against new crown pneumonia) Germany’s epidemic rebound continues to cause concerns about the risk of cluster infections in flood-stricken areas
China News Agency, Berlin, July 20 (Reporter Peng Dawei) On the 20th, the new crown epidemic data released by the German disease control agency still maintained a rebound momentum. After the severe floods hit many states in western Germany in recent days, local officials and related experts worry that due to factors such as the gathering of large numbers of people during the disaster relief process and the concentrated placement of disaster victims, they may cause a cluster of infections.
The German disease control agency announced that the number of newly diagnosed new crown virus infections and the new deaths were 1,183 and 34, respectively, with a total of 3,746,410 confirmed and 91,397 deaths. The important indicator used by the German authorities to monitor the severity of the epidemic, “the average number of new diagnoses per 100,000 people in seven days” rose to 10.9 on the same day, and has rebounded for the thirteenth consecutive day. As of that day, Germany has received a total of 86.5 million doses of the new crown vaccine. A total of 388,43,476 people have been fully vaccinated, accounting for 46.7?% of the country’s total population. The number of people who have received at least one dose is 49,931,406, which is the first time that the total population is 6 to make.
As the two most severely affected states in western Germany by floods, officials in Lafma and North Rhine-Westphalia are concerned that the ongoing disaster relief and clean-up work will require a large number of people to gather, which may cause cluster infections. The spokesperson for the new crown affairs of the Lafayette state government said on the same day that due to the large number of people coming to the disaster relief, considering that these people are crowded in a very crowded space, measures must be taken to prevent the disaster relief operation from becoming a “super” Contagion incident”.
Lauterbach, an epidemiologist with the Social Democratic Party membership, also warned that a large-scale centralized resettlement of disaster victims will bring a high risk of new crown infection. He believes that those homeless victims should be placed in hotels or residential facilities with separate rooms, only in this way can a subsequent large-scale outbreak of the epidemic be avoided. “If the flood disaster is already so severe, and the delta strain causes a large-scale outbreak of the epidemic, the superposition of the two will be very fatal.”
Relevant disaster-stricken areas have begun to step up new crown testing and vaccination efforts to avoid the epidemic. Among them, Lafayette has begun to send mobile vaccination vehicles to the disaster-stricken areas to provide local people with vaccination services in the form of buses without prior appointments. (Finish)
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