Currently, the number of new infections identified exceeds 4,000 per day and the weekly data is also very alarming, experts say.

Coronavirus: the second wave

Half a year after the spring outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the second wave of the pandemic has arrived. The radical increase in the number of infected is forcing more and more countries to re-impose restrictions, despite the fact that the world economy has not even recovered from the effects of the spring outbreak. According to the posters, the second wave also reached Hungary. Follow our news!

The coronavirus epidemic in Germany could become uncontrollable and the number of new infections detected daily could soon rise to more than 10,000, according to the Robert Koch National Institute of Public Health (RKI).

According to RKI data on Thursday, 4,058 new infections have been recorded in the last 24 hours. More of this case was last included in the statistics almost six months ago, on April 11, when the new type of coronavirus was detected in 4,133 people.

Along with the new cases, the number of test-confirmed infections rose to 310,144 and 9,578 people with coronavirus have died since the outbreak began.

At a briefing in Berlin on Thursday, Lothar Wieler, president of the RKI, stressed that “very disturbing” processes had begun. In the first days of October, twice as many cases were reported as a month earlier, the number of people needing intensive hospital treatment doubled and the number of infections detected in a week per 100,000 people increased from 20.2 at the beginning June, he said.

Germany has weathered the pandemic well so far, with few deaths internationally and still low. However, the “typical paradox of prevention” has emerged, that is, the phenomenon that

Due to the success of the defense, many question the need for precautionary measures that jeopardize the results of joint work and sacrifice.

At the same time, consistent adherence to well-established rules introduced during the first wave could keep the epidemic under control in the fall-winter period and reduce a number of other communicable diseases, the RKI president explained.

Among other things, it was about expanding the evidence to assess the extent of the epidemic much more accurately than the first wave, with a smaller “gray area”, meaning fewer unfiltered infections.

In this regard, Andreas Gassen, director of the Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung (KBV), director of the national interest group for doctors working in health insurance funds, said that the number of tests carried out per week had tripled from around 300,000 in spring to more than a million. and it fell from about 9 percent to about 1.5 percent.

Among other things, he added, there are more than 8,000 intensive care beds available, equivalent to the combined capacity of free intensive care in Italy and Spain. The care system has never been in danger of being overloaded, and regulatory compliance should ensure that this does not change, he said.



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