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(Fighting New Coronary Pneumonia) Germany’s single-day increase in the number of new cases and deaths officially implements the “strict lockdown”
China News Agency, Berlin, December 16 (Reporter Peng Dawei) The German disease control agency announced on the 16th that the number of deaths from the new corona disease in a single day reached 952, which not only reached a new record since the epidemic, but also increased significantly from the previous high of 598. On the same day, Germany officially implemented strict epidemic prevention measures called “strict closures.” Most of the shops, primary and secondary schools and kindergartens were closed. Private meetings could not exceed 5 people. Some states also established curfews.
On December 16 local time, Berlin, Germany, the shutter door of a jewelry store was half closed.
The German disease control department announced that the number of new confirmed cases was 27,728 and the number of deaths was 952. According to real-time data from the “Times Online” of Germany, at 18:00 local time on the 16th , Germany had a total of 1,397,718 diagnosed, 1,024,571 cured and 24,203 deaths.
Compared to the first implementation of the “city closure” during the first wave of the epidemic in mid-March of this year, the Germans were much calmer in the face of this “closure”. A reporter for the China News Agency saw that night in a large Berlin supermarket that there was a sufficient supply of fresh food and various daily necessities, and that there was no phenomenon in which people bought a large number of specific products, such as toilet paper and flour, at the beginning of the first “closed city”.
Bavaria has implemented a curfew since the middle of this month, and it is not allowed to stay in public places from 21 am to 5 am the next day without special emergency reasons. Hesse, Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg and Thuringia have also issued similar regulations. Saxony says you shouldn’t go out 24 hours a day without a “compelling” reason.
As the European Medicines Agency is expected to make a decision in late December on whether to approve the emergency use of the new corona vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer in the United States and BioNTech in Germany, when the new corona vaccine can be used in Germany has become a matter of concern. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said when answering questions from members of the German Bundestag on the 16th that the German federal government will provide the public with comprehensive information on the progress of vaccination.
She said Germany will not demand the new crown vaccine. But he also emphasized that only after 65% -70% of the population has been vaccinated against the new corona vaccine, is it possible to consider abolishing the requirement to wear masks.
Merkel commented that Germany has been successful in distributing N95 masks for people over 60 since December 15. He said that starting in January next year, face masks will be provided free of charge to people infected with the new corona virus. (End up)
