After identifying numbers of unparalleled infections in recent days, the country has recorded for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, Thursday, more than 50,000 new daily cases.
Le Monde with AFP
She arrives, she is here. Sign of the violence of the epidemic wave that strikes Germany, 50 196 Additional cases of COVID-19 were recorded in twenty-four hours, Wednesday, November 10, reports the Robert-Koch Institute, a federal sanitary watch. Never-seen.
This is the first time that the threshold of 50,000 new daily cases has been crossed since the beginning of the pandemic; In recent days, Germany has identified numbers of unpublished contaminations. The number of deaths in twenty-four hours amounted to 235, Thursday.
Wednesday, Angela Merkel, the outgoing Chancellor, had judged “dramatic” the resumption of infections in the country, particularly notable since October. “The pandemic spreads again dramatically,” said his spokesperson, calling for regional authorities, competent in health, to take new measures to stem the epidemic. Hospital care units also experience increasing pressure.
Low vaccination rate, new restrictions
In particular, this outbreak is attributed to the relatively small vaccination rate of the German population, just over 67%.
Many particularly affected Länder, such as Saxony, Bavaria, and very recently Berlin, have introduced new restrictions for non-vaccinated people, who are the first affected by this rebound of the pandemic.
So, starting on Monday, Berlin will prohibit non-vaccinated people with access to the restaurants without terrace, bars, gyms and hair salons.
A negative test result will no longer allow access to these public places if people are not vaccinated or can only prove they are cured of the disease.
In total, 4,894 million people have been contaminated with COVID-19 in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic and 97 198 have died.