She’s coming, she’s there. Sign of the violence of the epidemic wave hitting Germany, 50,196 additional cases of Covid-19 were recorded in twenty-four hours, Wednesday, November 10, reports the Robert-Koch Institute, federal health watch establishment. Never seen.
This is the first time that the threshold of 50,000 new daily cases has been crossed since the start of the pandemic; in recent days, Germany has identified unprecedented numbers of contaminations. The number of deaths in twenty-four hours stood at 235 on Thursday.
On Wednesday, Angela Merkel, the outgoing chancellor, had judged “Dramatic” the resumption of infections in the country, particularly notable since October. “The pandemic is spreading dramatically again”, had deplored his spokesperson, calling on the regional authorities, competent in health matters, to take new measures to contain the epidemic. Hospital care units are also under increasing pressure.
Low vaccination rate, new restrictions
This outbreak is attributed in particular to the relatively low vaccination rate of the German population, just over 67%.
Several particularly affected Länder, such as Saxony, Bavaria, and very recently Berlin, have introduced new restrictions targeting unvaccinated people, who are the first affected by this rebound in the pandemic.
Thus, as of Monday, Berlin will prohibit unvaccinated people from accessing, in particular, restaurants without a terrace, bars, sports halls and hairdressing salons.
A negative test result will no longer allow access to these public places if people are not vaccinated or cannot prove that they are cured of the disease.
In total, 4.894 million people have been infected with Covid-19 in Germany since the start of the pandemic and 97,198 have died from it.