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Angela Merkel For weeks he has been warning of the dangers of an explosive and exponential increase in the number of infections in his public appearances and also in closed forums, according to constant press reports.
According to Bild, his party, the Christian Democratic Union and the sister party, at a joint meeting of the CSU joint federal parliamentary group on Tuesday, noted that the number of confirmed infections doubles in about a week and the number of people needing intensive care doubles in ten days. From this, as well as from the capacity of the healthcare system, it follows that all beds in intensive care units in German hospitals are filled at Christmas.
Four more doubles and voila, the system is over
– said the Chancellor according to the reports of the participants of the meeting of factions according to the MTI report.
SARS-Cov-2 is spreading rapidly in Germany compared to the summer after the first wave, but with less force than in most neighboring countries. According to the Robert Koch National Institute of Public Health (RKI) on Tuesday, there have been 11,409 infections in the past 24 hours, up from 6,868 more than a week earlier. Since the outbreak, the pathogen has been detected in 449,275 people.
The number of deaths associated with the disease caused by the virus (Covid-19) increased by 42 in one day to 10,098. The seven-day moving average of the virus’s so-called reproduction rate (R) is 1.30, according to the latest RKI data from Monday. This means that for every 100 people infected, they transmit the pathogen to an average of 130 more people.
The number of people treated in the intensive care unit for Covid-19 rose by 66 in one day to 1,362, according to the latter, also on Monday. About 45 percent of them, 622 people, need mechanical ventilation. These data indicate that only 4 percent of the roughly 30,000 intensive care beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients. At the same time, their numbers are increasing rapidly, almost five hundred from 879 the previous Tuesday.
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